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Emma Hart | Graphic Artist

Four films to get you into the spring spirit

Cristina Sepe March 25, 2025
Each one has hints of spring in their own ways, but they always know how to make me excited for the seasons to change. Here are four recommendations to help you get into the spring spirit!
Iris Ren | Graphic Artist

What was I made for? Resilience of womanhood in film

Isabella Laikin November 13, 2024
Female filmmakers have emerged — illuminating the diverse, resilient and unapologetically complex experience of being a woman. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

‘Barbie’ wasn’t snubbed, please get over yourselves

Lina Barclay January 31, 2024
'Barbie' made for a fun filmgoing experience, but Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie are not deserving of Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Actress. Here's why.
Annika Morris | Senior Graphic Artist

Sorry, I’m having a blonde moment

Samantha Marshall January 29, 2024
We’ve all heard the jokes: “blonde moments,” “dumb blondes” and “blondes have more fun.” Such words seem harmless, but actually have a bigger effect on our society today. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): A dating dilemma — BF or BFF?

Analise Bruno November 27, 2023
Dear Abby: Please help! I don’t know what to do, my friends are telling me that I don’t spend enough time with them, and that I am prioritizing my boyfriend over them –– but I think I balance the relationships well. Am I in the wrong for spending too much time with my boyfriend? How do I save my friendships?
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

What she was made for: Greta Gerwig’s revival of girlhood | Mad Women

Hailey Pitcher October 3, 2023
There’s an element of feminine melancholy within Greta Gerwig’s work. With films primarily featuring female protagonists, Gerwig has a way of perfectly encapsulating the trials, tribulations and celebrations of what it means to identify as a woman.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

EDITORIAL: It’s a Barbie world—and we’re all just living in it

Editors April 10, 2023
While she’s normally making headlines for her controversial body stature, Barbie is now making news for another reason: coming to a theater near you on July 21 is Greta Gerwig’s real-life adaptation of “Barbie”—but we would be remiss if we didn’t discuss how this stereotypical casting contributes to the unrealistic beauty standard discourse.
Jacklyn Tsung | Senior Graphic Artist

Ten films I’m excited to watch in 2023

Kamsi Iloeje March 23, 2023
After careful deliberation, here are my top 10 most anticipated films of the year so far.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Yes, Jo and Friedrich did get together in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ | The Revival House

Katie Harmon March 20, 2023
While maybe Jo and Friedrich did not get together in the traditional rom-com way portrayed in the movie as potential fiction — they still did end up together in my eyes. The movie is absolutely incredible no matter how one views the ending. 
“9to5: The Story of a Movement,” a documentary focused on women’s activism in the 1970s, screened Wednesday and Thursday in Emerson College’s Bright Lights Film Series. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Activists talk origins of women’s movement in ’70s Boston after doc screening

Molly Farrar February 1, 2021
The 2020 documentary “9to5: The Story of a Movement" — directed by Oscar-winning duo Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar — highlighted the '70s women's movement in Boston where secretaries from across the city protested against unfair wages, sexual harassment and inequalities in the workplace.
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut “Lady Bird” is released to universal acclaim. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

INTERVIEW: Greta Gerwig discusses complexity, specificity in “Lady Bird”

Kaya Williams December 4, 2017

“Lady Bird,” writer-director Greta Gerwig’s widely beloved coming-of-age tale set in early-2000’s Sacramento, is a critics’ darling — one that just toppled 1999’s “Toy Story 2” with...

Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut “Lady Bird” starring Saoirse Ronan debuts Friday. PHOTO COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

REVIEW: Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’ shines with compassion, warmth

Kaya Williams November 9, 2017

“Lady Bird” glows. There is no other way to describe it. In indie darling Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Saoirse Ronan is the titular Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson, a Catholic-school-plaid-clad...

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