Why Angelina Jolie's "Hardbody" in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' Appeals to the Woman Spectator
While the camera is objectifying her body to invoke a sexual response in male viewers, Lara Croft still defies the expectations of women in action films.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Donate: ActingforaCause.org @acting4acause Jane Eyre is the classic tale of a woman's relationship with authority and love. We follow her as she grows up in an abusive situation, moves on to work for the moody and mysterious Mr. Rochester, falls in love with him, finds out he is already married, moves in with St. John and his sisters, inherits a large sum of money, receives a proposal from St. John, and moves back to find Rochester's wife is dead and he is badly injured.
While the camera is objectifying her body to invoke a sexual response in male viewers, Lara Croft still defies the expectations of women in action films.
Disney remakes have often gotten a bad rap for their consistent reliance on the originals and overuse of CGI. However, Mulan is a remake that is able to transcend beyond Disney's other remakes with a confident and bold earnestness.
'Run This Town' takes an unflinching look at the Rob Ford scandal that shook Toronto to its core while using fictional millennials to drive a concise story .
This list was made with the intention of celebrating comedic craft and a love of seeing more women of colour and newcomers on the scene.
True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.