Currently Browsing: Julia Lasker
Fifty years ago today, the groundbreaking and beloved Peppermint Patty made her first appearance in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strips. To celebrate her “birthday,” I’m taking a look back at the significance of her character to the cartoon and to the world at large—and she may be more significant than you think.… read more.
Today is Emily Brontë’s 208th birthday. To celebrate, I am revisiting Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of Emily’s iconic novel Wuthering Heights (released earlier this year). I am someone who loves this novel, and someone with very strong opinions about book-to-screen adaptations, so I am taking this as an opportunity not only to celebrate Emily’s brilliance, but also to analyze whether Emerald’s adaptation did it justice. … read more.
Last weekend, I headed out with a few FF2 team members to see Ask E. Jean, an incredible new documentary directed by Ivy Meeropol about E. Jean Carroll—the iconic journalist and advice columnist who is also the only woman to beat Donald Trump twice in court.
News has just broken that the Supreme Court has launched a criminal investigation into E.… read more.
Julia Ducournau, one of our era’s most prolific horror filmmakers, has ventured both deeper into and then beyond the genre with her new film, Alpha, which has just recently become available for streaming. Intimately documenting the complex and intertwining relationships between Alpha (the young protagonist played by Mélissa Borosas) and her mother (Golshifteh Farahani) and her uncle (Tahar Rahim), Julia’s newest film is about what it means to love someone—and, therefore, to worry about them. … read more.
At the beginning of director Isa Willinger’s career, cult-followed filmmaker Kira Muratova told her: “The truth is, women make the harsher films.”
This question weighed on Isa’s mind when she set out to make her documentary No Mercy. The film draws its inspiration from Ukrainian director Kira Muratova, about whom Isa wrote the book “Kira Muratova: Cinema of Subversion” a decade ago.… read more.
In advance of tomorrow night’s announcement of the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, we’d like to stop one last time to reflect on Demi Moore’s Annus Mirabilis — year of miracles & wonder — which began on this date last year when she won the 2025 Golden Globe award Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for her earth-shaking, career-rejuvenating performance in The Substance!… read more.