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In 2023, 51,100 women and girls were killed by partners or family members, about one every 10 minutes. Nearly 1 in 3 women worldwide (≈736 million) have suffered physical or sexual violence in their lifetime by a partner or family member. The real numbers are likely higher.

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Abigail Before Beatrice Year: 2025 Runtime: 109 minutes Director/Writer: Cassie Keet Actors: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Riley Dandy, Shayn Herndon, Jordan Lane Shappell, Molly Jackson, Harley Bronwyn, Geri Courtney-Austein, An…

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Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Abigail Before Beatrice Year: 2025 Runtime: 109 minutes Director/Writer: Cassie Keet Actors: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Riley Dandy, Shayn Herndon, Jordan Lane Shappell, Molly Jackson, Harley Bronwyn, Geri Courtney-Austein, Andersyn Van Kuren By Taylor Hunsberger Caution: This film features discussions of domestic abuse and violence.  Cassie Keet’s astonishing new feature "Abigail Before Beatrice" (2025) takes a closer look at cults, but from a new perspective–through the eyes of a woman who wishes she was still there. Beatrice, played by Olivia Taylor Dudley (who rightfully won the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Award for Best Performance), arrives in the backyard of a farm owned by a man named Will (

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Abigail Before Beatrice

Year: 2025 Runtime: 109 minutes Director/Writer: Cassie Keet Actors: Olivia Taylor Dudley, Riley Dandy, Shayn Herndon, Jordan Lane Shappell, Molly Jackson, Harley Bronwyn, Geri Courtney-Austein, Andersyn Van Kuren By Taylor Hunsberger…

The federal government keeps labeling everyone they go after as cartel members — and it keeps being proven false. These are the same people we’re supposed to trust when they execute people at sea under that very justification?

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Tinsman Road Year :2025 Runtime: 119 minutes Director: Robbie Banfitch Writer: Robbie Banfitch Actors: Robbie Banfitch, Leslie Ann Banfitch, Salem Belladonna, Heather Middleton By Taylor Hunsberger “Tinsm…

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Tinsman Road intheirownleague.com/2025/10/29/b... -For #foundfootage #horror fans, check out the lastest from #brooklynhorror film festival here at the League! #Halloween

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Tinsman Road Year :2025 Runtime: 119 minutes Director: Robbie Banfitch Writer: Robbie Banfitch Actors: Robbie Banfitch, Leslie Ann Banfitch, Salem Belladonna, Heather Middleton By Taylor Hunsberger "Tinsman Road," Robbie Banfitch’s follow up to his breakout hit "Outwaters" (2022), is currently making its way around the festival circuit. The film is a backwoods New Jersey slow-burn filmed entirely on a 4:3 mini-DV camera, giving the appearance that this found-footage was actually made during its presumed setting of the 90s. The look of the film itself is a feat and you can clearly see the immense amount of work that went into its creation.

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Review: Tinsman Road

Year :2025 Runtime: 119 minutes Director: Robbie Banfitch Writer: Robbie Banfitch Actors: Robbie Banfitch, Leslie Ann Banfitch, Salem Belladonna, Heather Middleton By Taylor Hunsberger "Tinsman Road," Robbie Banfitch’s follow up to his breakout…

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.

Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/

LFF 2025 Review: After the Hunt Year: 2025 Runtime: 138 hours Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: Nora Garrett Actors: Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny By Caz Armstrong From the director…

LFF 2025 Review: After the Hunt intheirownleague.com/2025/10/28/l... - #juliaroberts returns in this latest from the director of #challengers- Read all about it at the League thanks to @cazzylimepie.bsky.social #afterthehunt

LFF 2025 Review: After the Hunt Year: 2025 Runtime: 138 hours Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: Nora Garrett Actors: Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny By Caz Armstrong From the director of "Call Me By Your Name" (2017) and "Challengers" (2024) comes the philosophical thriller "After The Hunt." Written by Nora Garrett, we join bourgeois Yale professors and their PHD students at a house party drinking and talking in philosophical riddles that have moved on before us mere mortals have even comprehended their sentences. Two professors, Alma (Julia Roberts) and Hank (

LFF 2025 Review: After the Hunt

Year: 2025 Runtime: 138 hours Director: Luca Guadagnino Writer: Nora Garrett Actors: Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny By Caz Armstrong From the director of "Call Me By Your Name" (2017) and "Challengers" (2024) comes the…

Review: Hamnet Year: 2025 Runtime: 125 minutes Director: Chloé Zhao Writers: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell Actors: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Justine Mitchell, Emily Watson, David WIlmot, Freya …

Review: Hamnet intheirownleague.com/2025/10/27/r... -One of the hottest films of the year and we've got a great review by Caz Armstrong @cazzylimepie.bsky.social so let's get the week started here at the League! #hamnet #womeninfilm

Review: Hamnet Year: 2025 Runtime: 125 minutes Director: Chloé Zhao Writers: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell Actors: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Justine Mitchell, Emily Watson, David WIlmot, Freya Hannah-Mills, Dainton Anderson, Louisa Harland, Elliot Baxter, Jacobi Jupe By Caz Armstrong In the mid 1500's in a quiet English forest Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley) awakes, cocooned in moss and roots in a fetal position, and at one with her surroundings. She calls her pet hawk and feeds it a snack of raw meat. On her return home she’s spotted by the handsome Latin teacher William Shakespeare (

Review: Hamnet

Year: 2025 Runtime: 125 minutes Director: Chloé Zhao Writers: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'Farrell Actors: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Justine Mitchell, Emily Watson, David WIlmot, Freya Hannah-Mills, Dainton Anderson, Louisa Harland, Elliot Baxter, Jacobi Jupe By Caz Armstrong…

June Lockhart, 'Lassie' and 'Lost in Space' Actress Who Was One of the Last Surviving Stars from Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 100 June Lockhart has died at the age of 100. One of the last stars from Hollywood's Golden Age, she appeared in 'Meet Me in St. Louis' and 'A Christmas Carol,' and she also starred on the TV series 'Lass...

June Lockhart, "Lassie" and "Lost in Space" actress who was one of the last surviving stars from Hollywood's Golden Age, has died at 100

LFF2025 Review: Hedda Year: 2025 Runtime: 107 minutes Director: Nia DaCosta Writers: Nia DaCosta, Henrik Ibsen Actors: Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots, Nicholas Pinnock, Tom Bateman, Finbar Lynch, Kathryn Hunter…

LFF2025 Review: Hedda intheirownleague.com/2025/10/25/l... -We're big fans of #tessathompson and we know you are too so join us for her latest opening this weekend and hot from #LFF2025 thanks to @cazzylimepie.bsky.social

LFF2025 Review: Hedda Year: 2025 Runtime: 107 minutes Director: Nia DaCosta Writers: Nia DaCosta, Henrik Ibsen Actors: Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots, Nicholas Pinnock, Tom Bateman, Finbar Lynch, Kathryn Hunter By Caz Armstrong Hedda Gabler (Tessa Thompson), wealthy but bored socialite in an exquisite ballgown sits opposite two police officers, cigarette dangling from her fingers and an air of coldness about her. Someone has been killed. Guns, booze, and bloody murder are in the air but what does she know of it all? We better start from the beginning… Newlyweds Hedda and her fop of a husband George (

LFF2025 Review: Hedda

Year: 2025 Runtime: 107 minutes Director: Nia DaCosta Writers: Nia DaCosta, Henrik Ibsen Actors: Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots, Nicholas Pinnock, Tom Bateman, Finbar Lynch, Kathryn Hunter By Caz Armstrong Hedda Gabler (Tessa Thompson), wealthy but bored socialite in…

Detection firm finds 82% of herbal remedy books on Amazon ‘likely written’ by AI Originality.ai scans 558 titles in herbal remedies section between January and September

Amazon sells a lot of garbage. One of the types of refuse peddled there are books about “herbal remedies”.

Some new work has shown that 82% of these books may have been written by AI.

Many quote Barbara O’Neill, an Aussie naturopath who has been banned from practicing medicine for life.

Cannes Film Festival 2025 review: The Mastermind Year: 2025 Runtime: 110 minutes Writer/ Director: Kelly Reichardt Actors: Josh O’Connor, Alana Haim, Hope Davis, Gaby Hoffman By Sarah Manvel At the start, one of the kids in this movie tells…

Josh O'Connor admirers will ignore me but I found THE MASTERMIND 📽️ (out today on UK and Ireland) a detailed depiction of an empty room. For @intheirownleague.bsky.social it tried so hard to avoid cliché it wore itself out intheirownleague.com/2025/05/25/c...

Exclusive Q&A with Children’s Librarian Taylor Hunsberger: Frankenstein, the novel By Joan Amenn Not only is she a brilliant film critic, Taylor Hunsberger is a gifted Children’s Librarian and New York City is very lucky to have her. She was kind enough to sit down and shar…

Exclusive Q&A with Children's Librarian Taylor Hunsberger: Frankenstein, the novel intheirownleague.com/2025/10/24/e... -She's a film critic, she's a librarian and she KNOWS horror! Join us for a Q&A about "Frankenstein" and catch up on your monster lore here at the League! #frankenstein #halloween

Blue Moon Review Year: 2025 Runtime: 100 Minutes Director: Richard Linklater Writer: Robert Kaplow Actors: Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale By Emma Vine After rave reviews of “Blue…

Blue Moon Review intheirownleague.com/2025/10/24/b... -Musical theater fans! We've got a new film that might be your perfect cup of tea. What did our own Emma Vine think of it? Find out at the League! #bluemoon #ethanhawke #margaretqualley

Exclusive Q&A with Children’s Librarian Taylor Hunsberger: Frankenstein, the novel By Joan Amenn Not only is she a brilliant film critic, Taylor Hunsberger is a gifted Children's Librarian and New York City is very lucky to have her. She was kind enough to sit down and share her thoughts about the horror classic, "Frankenstein" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and its influence on young readers, particularly young women. 1. Do you see "Frankenstein" as empowering for young women readers, since it can be a gateway to horror from a woman’s perspective? Absolutely! I did not learn that Frankenstein was written by a woman until I was much older, so I do think it’s important to introduce that to kids when they are young.

Exclusive Q&A with Children’s Librarian Taylor Hunsberger: Frankenstein, the novel

By Joan Amenn Not only is she a brilliant film critic, Taylor Hunsberger is a gifted Children's Librarian and New York City is very lucky to have her. She was kind enough to sit down and share her thoughts about the…

Retrospective Review: Carnival of Souls Year: 1962 Runtime: 78 minutes Director: Herk Harvey Writers: Herk Harvey, John Clifford Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt By Joan Amenn…

Retrospective Review: Carnival of Souls intheirownleague.com/2025/10/23/r... -A look back at a great cult classic of horror here at the League! #carnivalofsouls #womeninhorror #spookyseason #halloween

Retrospective Review: Carnival of Souls Year: 1962 Runtime: 78 minutes Director: Herk Harvey Writers: Herk Harvey, John Clifford Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt By Joan Amenn If you’re a fan of low budget horror, “Carnival of Souls” (1962) is a cult favorite that fits that requirement but is also surprisingly effective in bringing the chills. Shot in a weekend for a pittance, “Carnival” screens like a longer adaptation of an episode of “The Twilight Zone” but that is certainly not a detraction from its clever use of sound and silence to weave a tale of ghostly horror.

Retrospective Review: Carnival of Souls

Year: 1962 Runtime: 78 minutes Director: Herk Harvey Writers: Herk Harvey, John Clifford Actors: Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt By Joan Amenn If you’re a fan of low budget horror, “Carnival of Souls”…

This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old

How to Define Freedom: Nia DaCosta on “Hedda” | Interviews | Roger Ebert An interview with the writer/director of this week's Hedda.

“I’m committed to presenting complex Black women on screen, especially Black women behaving badly.”

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social I spoke with Nia DaCosta about her latest collaboration with Tessa Thompson: HEDDA!

LFF2025 Review: Train Dreams Year: 2025 Runtime: 102 minutes Director: Clint Bentley Writers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, based on the novella by Denis Johnson Actors: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Clifton Collins, Jr., Alfre…

LFF2025 Review: Train Dreams intheirownleague.com/2025/10/21/l... -From the creative team that brought us #singsing a stunning new film just in from #LFF2025 here at the League! #joeledgerton #felicityjones #traindreams

Brooklyn Horror FF Review: Queens of the Dead Year: 2025 Runtime: 99 minutes Director: Tina Romero Writers: Erin Judge, Tina Romero Actors: Jaquel Spivey, Katy O’Brien, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Tomas Matos, Jack Haven, Dominique Jackson, Marga…

Brooklyn Horror FF Review: Queens of the Dead intheirownleague.com/2025/10/21/b... -Come with us to #brooklynhorrorfilmfestival and catch up on this awesome new film by #tinaromero! We're so excited for Taylor Hunsberger bringing us the scary and the creepy here at the League!

#Sundance2025 Review: Selena y Los Dinos Year: 2025 Runtime: 110 minutes Director: Isabel Castro By Rosa Parra This documentary chronicles the journey of the iconic Mexican-American Tejano group Selena y Los Dinos. It tells a beautifully …

#Sundance2025 Review: Selena y Los Dinos intheirownleague.com/2025/02/06/s... -Now on @netflix.com our good friend Rosa Parra says it's a "must watch!" Find out more at the League! #selenaylosdinos

Brooklyn Horror FF Review: Queens of the Dead Year: 2025 Runtime: 99 minutes Director: Tina Romero Writers: Erin Judge, Tina Romero Actors: Jaquel Spivey, Katy O'Brien, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Tomas Matos, Jack Haven, Dominique Jackson, Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome, Nina West By Taylor Hunsberger Get your heels and your crossbows ready because Tina Romero’s "Queens of the Dead" (2025) hobbled into Brooklyn Horror Film Festival as their opening night feature. Romero is indeed the daughter of famed zombie auteur George A. Romero, and she has set out on a path of her own to, as she called it in her opening speech “queer the canon.” The film was directed and co-written by Romero along with her co-writer…

Brooklyn Horror FF Review: Queens of the Dead

Year: 2025 Runtime: 99 minutes Director: Tina Romero Writers: Erin Judge, Tina Romero Actors: Jaquel Spivey, Katy O'Brien, Quincy Dunn-Baker, Tomas Matos, Jack Haven, Dominique Jackson, Margaret Cho, Riki Lindhome, Nina West By Taylor Hunsberger Get…

NYFF63 Review: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Year: 2025 Runtime: 113 minutes Director: Mary Bronstein Writer: Mary Bronstein Actors: Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Christian Slater, Danielle Macdonald, A$AP Rocky, Delaney Quinn By Tom Moore…

NYFF63 Review: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You intheirownleague.com/2025/10/20/n... -Find out why Tom Moore says #rosebyrne is a "must see" in her latest film hot from #NYFF63 here at the League!

LFF2025 Review: 100 Nights of Hero Film critic Calum Cooper concludes his coverage of the London Film Festival by reviewing the closing film, 100 Nights of Hero.

LFF2025 Review: 100 Nights of Hero intheirownleague.com/2025/10/19/l... -In the mood for a fractured fairy tale? Check in with the League to find out what @calumcooperfilm.bsky.social thought of this one at #LFF2025

LFF2025 Review: Nouvelle Vague Film critic Calum Cooper continues his coverage of the London Film Festival by reviewing Richard Linklater’s tribute to the French New Wave, Nouvelle Vague.

LFF2025 Review: Nouvelle Vague intheirownleague.com/2025/10/18/l... -Catch the latest from director #richardlinklater just in from #LFF2025 here at the League! #nouvellevague