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This week on our season finale we look at three box office and critical successes which you might not know were directed by women. In the hot seat is Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break, Penelope Spheeris’ Wayne’s World and Mary Harron’s American Psycho. We also almost (but not quite) dodge the Blake Lively controversy and talk about the films we’re looking forward to this autumn. See you for season 5!

References
‘Warner Brothers to put a studio in the dessert’, by Brian Welk, indiewire.com
‘How American Psycho became a feminist statement’ by Trey Taylor, dazeddigital.com
Penelope Spheeris on Wayne’s World, Pat Saperstein, Variety.com
‘Point Break is a feminine perspective on toxic masculinity’, laineygossip.com

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