Cruella de Vil, Cruella de Vil, if she doesn't scare you, no evil thing will.
From director Yuval Adler, the dramatic thriller The Secrets We Keep follows a Roma woman named Maja (Noomi Rapace), who lives a cozy life in post World War II suburbia with her American husband Lewis (Chris Messina). When she unexpectedly catches a glimpse of a man (Joel Kinnaman) that she believes is the German soldier who brutalized her and murdered her younger sister, Maja decides to do whatever it takes to get discover the truth. During this 1-on-1 phone interview with Collider, actress Noomi Rapace (who is also an executive producer on the film) talked about how involved …
Black Panther is now an Oscar-winning movie three times over, but, even before that, it was already one of the most groundbreaking and enjoyable movies in the entire MCU. The characters in Black Panther were all well-developed, distinct, and interesting, and this includes the multiple women in the film.
For all the critical praise Season 1 of True Detective received back in 2014, it was hard to ignore the representation of women as faceless victims, nagging wives, and sexual playthings. An examination of masculinity doesn’t have to eschew women having agency or even a modicum of an interior life. In Season 2, creator Nic Pizzolatto attempted to address this criticism by introducing a female investigator, Detective Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams). Despite an excellent performance from McAdams, this character read as another clichéd archetype; she’s just one of the guys who isn’t going to let any …