The latest instalment in Legendary’s ‘Monsterverse’ – Godzilla: King Of The Monsters – is all about communication, consequence, and sacrifice. Those are very familiar themes in cinema these days, but this movie adds its own twist on well-worn tropes. Here, we have women as heroes and villains, just as we often see happen with men.

Sexism in cinema means that we rarely see complex women characters in action movies. Even in lead roles, women action movie characters are all too often one-dimensional, and motivated by a single issue. They tend to either stomp around being vehemently self-sufficient while scowling a lot and seeking vengeance for some...

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