Review: Amma Asante’s ‘Belle’

Review: Amma Asante’s ‘Belle’

Amma Asante’s Belle, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, is film perfection. Belle is inspired by the real life story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the beautiful mixed-race illegitimate daughter of Royal Navy Admiral Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode). Belle lived in the 18th century...
For Pretty Girls Who Cut Themselves

For Pretty Girls Who Cut Themselves

“There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin-that if I didn’t do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode.”-Demi Lovato (August 2012 issue of Self Magazine) We live in a society where the perfect beauty,...