Alexandra Oliva

In Praise of Complicated (Read: Badass) Women
I’m part of a film club and we choose our movies by theme—a chase, for example, or notable art direction. Recently we picked badass females as our theme and found that beyond the handful of obvious action films, we were in new territory. The women we admired in more realistic filmmaking genres were truly multifaceted—tough… Read More »
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