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A new trailer for the live-action version of “Cinderella” has arrived, and we’re totally enchanted by the visuals, which manage to bring fairy-tale imagery to life. We’re also keen to see...
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If Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken whet your appetite for more tales of WWII heroics, Roberta Grossman’s Above and Beyond will likely satisfy that craving. The Nancy Spielberg-produced documentary...
Those of us who have missed Kate Winslet playing headstrong women in period garb have much to look forward to in A Little Chaos. Winslet is reunited with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Alan...
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The Season 3 finale of Girls marked the biggest shakeup in the show’s history: Hannah (Lena Dunham) is off to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Adam (Adam Driver) is about to make his Broadway debut,...
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“I always knew that MLK was badass, but he’s been homogenized to a speech and a statue,” said director Ava DuVernay at an Urbanworld Film Festival sneak-peek event for Selma a few months ago....
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We’ve been hearing raves about A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival back in January. And now first-time filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, who was nominated...
We finally have a trailer for Unbroken, Angelina Jolie’s highly anticipated follow-up to her directorial debut, In The Land of Blood and Honey. Awards buzz has circulated around Unbroken since its...
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Little of the marketing thus far for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1, which opens in just five weeks, has focused on the franchise’s heroine, Katniss Everdeen. That’s partly because...
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Feminist movements, then and now, have been largely ignored by the movies. Unlike, say, the civil-rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, which receives respectful remembrance in high-profile...
When it debuted at Sundance this year, writer-director Jennifer Kent’s debut, The Babadook, became one of the festival’s breakout hits, with critics praising the film as a “flat-out...
When the divine Princess Kaguya took earthly form after being born inside a lotus flower, she probably wanted something more out of mortal existence than a marriage conundrum. She doesn’t...
One of the fundamental tenets that I hold true is that women’s rights are human rights, and included in those rights is the right to a safe and legal abortion should a woman want or need one. When...
The annulment of the marriage between prominent art critic John Ruskin and his much younger wife Effie Gray was a scandal in Victorian England, not least because Gray contended that their five-year...
Jennifer Lawrence gets a different type of role in the long awaited Serena, directed by the Oscar-winning Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier. The depression era film follows the strong-willed wife...
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When Homeland killed off Brody and fired Saul from the CIA in the third season’s finale, it pushed the restart button on the show. The new trailer for Season 4 hints at what’s next: Carrie is...
Katie Holmes is going back to school (but don’t get too excited; it’s not Capeside High). The former Dawson’s Creek star will be roaming the halls as a teacher this time around in Miss...
Oscar winner Marion Cotillard has a history of delivering strong performances in unconventional projects. Two Days, One Night happily seems to continue that trend. The film, and Cotillard’s acting...
Since the end of Twilight, Kristen Stewart has returned to her indie roots for the next chapter of her career. That seems like a good move for her, since her best notices were always in...
“I am sick to death of poor people.” That about sums up the philosphy of The Riot Club, the ultra-exclusive society at already tony Oxford University, where the future leaders of the world learn...
At the end of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) found herself rescued from the fighting arena and transported to the previously unknown District 13 by her mentor Haymitch...
Though her most recent film was the winsome rom com Love is All You Need, director Susanne Bier is best known for her grave, weighty dramas like Brothers, After the Wedding, and the Oscar-winning In...
Fans looking forward to the big-screen adaptation of Gayle Forman’s YA novel If I Stay have another trailer to enjoy. In the teenage melodrama, aspiring cellist Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) lies in a...
Disrupting Nicholas Sparks’ takeover of Valentine’s Day next year will be Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Fifty Shades of Grey, the adaptation of E.L. James’ S&M-y take on Bella and Edward’s...
I don’t know about you, but I can’t get enough of angry women in pop culture. Thus it’s refreshing to see rising star Tessa Thompson take center stage in writer-director Justin Simien’s...
Homeland has been very good at changing the show’s stakes between seasons, but the Showtime series has practically had to reinvent itself for its fourth year when (SPOILER) it killed off Brody and...
A month before her wedding, Jordanian-American May (Cherien Dabis) visits her mother (Hiam Abbass) in Amman to convince her to attend the big day. A successful writer back home in New York, May...
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Call 2014 Reese Witherspoon’s comeback year. The Walk the Line star will play the lead in two movies this Oscar season, The Good Lie (October 3) and Wild (December 5), and co-star in Inherent Vice...
Angelina Jolie fires an early warning shot to her fellow Oscar contenders with the new trailer for Unbroken, her inspirational biopic of Olympic runner and World War II prisoner-of-war Louis...
Catherine Keener is one of those actresses I’m always happy to see on screen, but unfortunately she hasn’t had a starring role since 2011’s Peace, Love, and Misunderstanding. So it’s great...
Bonnie and Clyde might shame every other star-crossed bank robber with their unimpeachable glamour, but John Wojtowicz was determined to give their romance a run for its money. Directors Allison...
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