Oppenheimer is once again trending on social media, but this time it’s because it fails the Bechdel Test. Here’s how the record-breaking movie fails the Bechdel Test. Also known as the ...

That said, the number of Bechdel Test-passing movies in the Top 10 is encouraging. The study done by FiveThirtyEight last year found that movies that passed the Bechdel Test performed just as well at ...

‘I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements,’ one woman tells another in Alison Bechdel’s 1985 comic strip. In the wake of ‘Barbie,’ the Bechdel Test has hit the mainstream. WATCH: ...

Writer Hanna Rosin apologized after a now-deleted tweet of hers criticized Hulu's "Fire Island" for failing to adequately represent women. "Fire Island," directed by Andrew Ahn, focuses on two gay ...

The Bechdel test is one of the easiest ways to figure out if a movie actually gives two shits about women (though it's not the only test of representation in films), and uses a simple measure to test ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

First appearing in 1985, cartoonist and writer Alison Bechdel and her friend Liz Wallace devised the Bechdel Test as a straightforward evaluation method used to explore the representation of gender in ...

Angela has been a rabid anime fan since she first experienced the dark fantasy, Vampire Hunter D. From there, she went on to watch such acclaimed titles as Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, and Pokemon. Since ...

Captain America: Civil War may be the biggest movie of the year so far, but it doesn’t do much for its female characters. The women in the film barely communicate with each other. During one of the ...

Writer/director/star Lake Bell’s In a World… is a comedy about a woman trying to make it in the movie-trailer voice-over business, a field in which her vain, competitive father has experienced great ...