The cultural phenomenon of the single woman is, sadly, a fairly recent one. At the turn of the 20th century, the sluttiest thing a woman could do was to leave her house alone, without an escort—as The ...

Modern life is full of pressure - deadlines, doomscrolling, dating apps. It can make you want to return to a simpler time. Maybe a convent in 16th-century Spain. A new book makes the case that even ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Immaculate may appear to be all about evil nuns. In the movie’s grisly opening, four ...

Plus: 'The Long Walk' misses a timely chance to diss totalitarianism, and re-release of 'Commune' dives into a back-to-land Californian tale. Russell’s script, while greatly condensed, does hew rather ...

I was 7 when I first watched "The Sound of Music," and it left me with the impression that a nun's vocation involved sabotaging Nazi vehicles and belting out show tunes. For a few months afterward, I ...

For years now, it’s been clear to the discerning viewer that the Criterion Channel is the streaming service par excellence for queer cinephiles. Not only does the (very competitively-priced!) streamer ...

The core concept for Andy Crane and Nathan Shepka’s The Baby in the Basket piqued my curiosity immediately. A nunsploitation film with a demonic baby wreaking havoc in an isolated nunnery. Sign me up ...

Horror feels good in a place like this. You’d be forgiven for wondering whether recent reports of audiences fleeing a new wave of horror movies— often due to fainting or vomiting — are among the ...

The service is an art house answer to what’s missing on some of the more popular streamers. By Jason Bailey Even those who swear by Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and their ilk must admit that the ...

A new MaXXXine trailer has dropped for the Mia Goth Hollywood slasher movie, and it’s not shy about chucking the claret about. The new MaXXXine trailer begins with another trailer for a fake ...

In uncertain times, religious sisters are often invoked as vessels for collective doubt. By Amanda Fortini From Chaucer’s supercilious Madame Eglantine in “The Canterbury Tales,” with her spoiled lap ...