Daria Ershova

Daria Ershova is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Filmoiselle. She's an entertainment and culture journalist whose film writing appears at Pop Tales and whose commentary has been quoted in Newsweek, Fortune, and British Vogue.

Every Film Is Political, and Always Has Been

With an election behind us and the country still arguing about what it meant, the old demand to "keep politics out of movies" is back. It was never possible. From dystopias to blockbusters, every story carries a worldview, and the films that last have always known it.

By Daria Ershova • 3 min read

The Filmoiselle Interview

The Filmoiselle Interview: Stevie Nelson on the Women Hollywood Forgot, and the Ones She Writes Now

She writes horror about women who break the mould, and she spends her days in the archive recovering the female pioneers that early Hollywood wrote out of its own history. A conversation about Cultivation, the silent era, and why cinema keeps forgetting the women who built it.

By Daria Ershova • 9 min read

Awards Season

The Race Is On: Where the 2027 Oscar Season Actually Stands

A presumed frontrunner that skipped the festivals, a wide-open field chasing it, and December heavyweights still to come. Our ranked Best Picture predictions for the 2027 Oscars, updated through the season.

By Daria Ershova • 3 min read

The Filmoiselle Interview

The Filmoiselle Interview: Ashley Robinson on Learning the Industry at a Legend's Hip

Ashley Robinson learned to produce by shadowing a Hollywood legend, then built her career out of Texas on purpose. She talks producing, genre, AI, carving out space as a woman of color, and the free resources the industry would rather you never found.

By Daria Ershova • 12 min read

Film & TV News

Bring Her Back Will Wreck You, and the Horror Is the Least of It

No jump scares, just emotional devastation. Bring Her Back is a five-star horror film about grief, a care system that fails children, and the fierce love between a brother and his nearly blind sister.

By Daria Ershova • 4 min read

Industry Insider

The Oscars Finally Gave Casting a Trophy, and the Craft That Waited Longest Was Built by Women

A century into the Academy Awards, casting got its first Oscar this year. Four of the five inaugural nominees were women, because the job of deciding who gets to be seen on screen has always, overwhelmingly, been women's work.

By Daria Ershova • 4 min read

Film & TV News

Two Hundred Years Later, Sense and Sensibility Still Knows Exactly Who We Are

Georgia Oakley's warm, funny, aching new adaptation understands that the girls Jane Austen wrote in 1811 are the same girls sitting in the cinema today.

By Daria Ershova • 3 min read

Film & TV News

The Roles Weren't There, So They Built the Industry: How Actresses Took Control of Hollywood

For a century, actresses told they weren’t getting good roles did something about it. They founded the companies that decide which roles exist. Inside the actress-to-mogul pipeline.

By Daria Ershova • 6 min read

Film & TV News

Wicker Understood the Assignment, Then Tore It Up

Wicker is far more than its provocative reputation. Our 4.5-star review of the Sundance breakout, starring Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgård, caught at FEST Belgrade.

By Daria Ershova • 3 min read

The Filmoiselle Interview

The Filmoiselle Interview: Emily Isaacs and the Art That Comes from the Heart

Award-winning writer and filmmaker Emily Isaacs on her first vertical micro-drama The Diamond Thief, the women whose stories go unheard, and why the best way to be understood is to tell a story.

By Daria Ershova • 10 min read

Film & TV News

The Debut Review: Julianne Moore Delivers the Performance of the Year in Jesse Eisenberg's Devastating Triumph

A woman the world stopped seeing refuses to disappear. Our five-star review of Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut and Julianne Moore performance, which should win Best Actress, seen early at FEST in Belgrade.

By Daria Ershova • 3 min read

Film & TV News

Primetime Review: Robert Pattinson Anchors a Lurid, Morally Rotten Portrait of American Ambition

Everyone in Primetime is chasing a prize while claiming to serve a greater good. Our review of Lance Oppenheim's astonishing, skin-crawling debut, seen at FEST in Belgrade.

By Daria Ershova • 4 min read