Abortion

The Janes

By Sabina Dana Plasse | May 2022

SFFILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! The Janes looks back on a mighty group of women who cared about women’s health and needs in Chicago…

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SFFILM FESTIVAL 2022 REVIEW! The Janes looks back on a mighty group of women who cared about women's health and needs in Chicago in the late 1960s and...

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Emily Goss' short film, A Little House in Aberdeen, puts Goss front and center as Britney, a young woman reflecting on her life while undergoing an...

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TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! The various stories involving abortion rights present in On the Divide are only a sampling of what many women face...

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Director Jaswant Dev Shrestha and screenwriter Rashmi Rustagi offer a different perspective on the subject of abortion that we seldom see nor may realize...

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In Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always, "a pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an...

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NEW TO VIRTUAL CINEMAS! I have covered a lot of political documentaries throughout my tenure here at Film Threat, so it should be no surprise to anyone who...

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Pendulum is one of those movies that I couldn’t pull myself away from until the end and for unexpected reasons. It’s not the greatest film and...

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SXSW 2020 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! The Surrogate centers on Jess (Jasmine Batchelor) as she becomes a surrogate for her best friends. During the early stages...

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When I think of films that sensitively approach the subject of abortion and women’s rights, Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3...

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Chris Moore’s country-fried slasher Blessed Are The Children is a spot on representation of Southern attitudes towards dating, marriage, politics, and...

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