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Trailer Watch: Hannah Grows Up (Just a Little Bit) in New Spot for ‘Girls’ Season 4
Trailer Watch: ‘Appropriate Behavior’ is the Next Great Love Story
Trailer Watch: Angela Bassett Directs Yaya DaCosta in Whitney Houston Biopic for Lifetime
I’ll say this for Lifetime: The cable network may draw little in the way of “prestige” attention, but it’s at least making mainstream, widely available movies about women of color like...
Trailer Watch: ‘Jane’ is a Portrait of Jane Fonda As a Young, Pre-Fame Artist
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Aniston Goes Dark for ‘Cake’
Jennifer Aniston showed a rare and delightfully dark streak in the 2011 comedy Horrible Bosses, in which she frolicked as a sexually predatory dentist. With this weekend’s release of Horrible...
Watch: How Not to Sell a Movie, AKA What’s With This Trailer for ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’?
Trailer Watch: ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ Aims for World Domination
Trailer Watch: ‘The DUFF’ Channels Classic Teen Comedies Like ‘Mean Girls’ and ‘She’s All That’
Trailer Watch: Live-Action ‘Cinderella’ Stars Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham-Carter
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Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain Seduces and Bullies in Liv Ullmann’s ‘Miss Julie’
We are introduced to Miss Julie through the eyes of John, her father’s valet, who describes her as “elegant” and “magnificent” and praises her “waist and neck.” Her first lines of...
Trailer Watch: Anne Hathaway is Consoled by Music and Love in Kate Barker-Froyland’s ‘Song One’
“Your brother was in an accident. You need to come home.” So begins a journey for archaeologist Franny, played by Anne Hathaway in Song One. Franny leaves a dig in Morocco to spend time with her...
Trailer Watch: ’50 Shades of Grey’ is Proud Lady Porn
Trailer Watch: Shailene Woodley is a Bona Fide Action Heroine in ‘Insurgent’
Trailer Watch: ‘Testament of Youth’ Witnesses World War I From Female Writer’s POV
Trailer Watch: ‘Girls’ Season 4: “Taking the Next Step in a Series of Random Steps”
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,...
Trailer Watch: Martin Luther King, Jr. is a Man, Not a Monument, in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Selma’
“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....
Trailer Watch: Final Spot for ‘Annie’ Highlights Quvenzhané Wallis and Jamie Foxx’s Comedic Chops
Trailer Watch: Niki Caro’s ‘McFarland, USA’: “There Ain’t Nothing ‘American Dream’ About This Place”
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Watch: Anita Sarkeesian Explains GamerGate on ‘Colbert,’ Brianna Wu Announces Legal Fund for Female Victims
The necessary fight against GamerGate continues, with critic Anita Sarkeesian making one of her most prominent media appearances yet and game developer Brianna Wu announcing her intentions to start...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Lawrence is a Possible Murderer in Susanne Bier’s ‘Serena’
Timber heir George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) wanted “a wife and a partner” when he married Serena Shaw (Jennifer Lawrence). But his elegant, ambitious, scheming bride isn’t just a modern...
Trailer Watch: Katniss Joins the Revolution in Final Spot for ‘Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1’
Trailer Watch: Israeli Military Comedy ‘Zero Motivation’ Finds Humor in the Trenches
Trailer Watch: Ana Lily Amirpour’s Iranian Vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’
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...
Watch: Jill Soloway Delivers Keynote About Nearly Quitting Hollywood and Her 5-Year Plan for ‘Transparent’
Trailer Watch: Valerie Cherish Attempts Another ‘Comeback’ in Season 2
Television has changed a great deal since The Comeback was last on the air a decade ago, but it’s a fair guess that showbiz narcissism hasn’t. Perhaps that’s why Lisa Kudrow’s mockumentary...
Trailer Watch: Olympic Runner and WWII P.O.W. Louis Zamperini Perseveres in Angelina Jolie’s ‘Unbroken’
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...
Watch: Jennifer Lawrence Takes Center Stage Again in New ‘Hunger Games’ Teaser
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...
Trailer Watch: Katie Holmes is a Captivating Female Vigilante in ‘Miss Meadows’
Trailer Watch: ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’ Chronicles the Turmoil of the Women’s Movement
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...
Watch: Viola Davis on Her Anti-Hunger Campaign: “I Didn’t Know Where My Next Meal Was Coming From”
As an honoree at Variety’s 2014 Power of Women event, a celebration of female philanthropy within the film industry, Viola Davis delivered a personal speech last Friday about her difficult...
Watch: Gillian Jacobs and Leighton Meester Are Codependent Besties in the Female-Friendship Comedy ‘Life Partners’
Paige is straight, Sasha is gay. Paige suddenly has a fiance, Sasha is still alone. The first of these two situations isn’t remotely a problem. The second one, though, creates a riff between the...
Watch: New Trailer for Kristen Stewart’s Guantanamo Drama ‘Camp X-Ray’
Watch: Frances McDormand is a Maine Toughie in Lisa Cholodenko’s ‘Olive Kitteridge’
Olive Kitteridge (Frances McDormand) is many things: beloved teacher, resented mother, seen-it-all middle-ager, wry chronicler of her small Maine town. Based on author Elizabeth Strout’s...
Watch: First Look at ‘Inside Out,’ Pixar’s First Girl-Centric Movie After ‘Brave’
It took Pixar nearly two decades to make a movie with a female protagonist, but fortunately the studio seems to have gotten the memo that girls and women watch adorable animated adventures too....
‘Makers’ Starts Tonight With History of Women in Comedy
It was less than a decade ago that the late Christopher Hitchens, a respected writer and thinker, wondered aloud in a mainstream publication “why women aren’t funny.” Many rational people...
Watch: A Mother is Terrorized by Her Child’s Favorite Book in ‘The Babadook’
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...
Julianne Moore’s ‘Still Alice’ to Receive Oscar-Qualifying Run (Plus Bonus Clip)
With four nominations and no wins yet, Julianne Moore might finally deserve her due at the next Academy Awards ceremony. The vehicle that’ll get here? Not the Hollywood-skewering showbiz satire...
Trailer Watch: A Rebellious Sprite Faces Marriage or Death in Studio Ghibli’s ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’
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...
Watch: Emma Watson Explains Why Feminism is the Opposite of Man-Hating in UN Speech
It’s no secret that the word “feminism” has a PR problem. Just this spring, Shailene Woodley echoed the (misinformed) sentiments of a lot of girls and women when she declared that she wasn’t...
Trailer Exclusive: Vessel Directed by Diana Whitten
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...
Trailer Watch: Amy Adams Fights for Artistic Recognition in ‘Big Eyes’
The trailer has finally arrived for Tim Burton’s Big Eyes, starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz as Margaret and Walter Keane, the couple behind the paintings, postcards, and prints of big-eyed...
Trailer Watch: ‘E-Team’ Profiles Human-Rights Investigators in Action
In places like Syria and Libya, where human-rights abuses were/are rampant, someone has to compile, analyze, and collect evidence of crimes against humanity in the midst of chaos to tell the world...
Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer Riff on Cereal in New ‘Broad City’ Teaser
We would never have pegged Broad City’s Abbi and Ilana as morning people, so this first teaser for the second season of the loose, loopy Comedy Central show is a bit of a surprise. The NYC...
Trailer Watch: Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska Grasp at the Hollywood Dream in ‘Maps to the Stars’
One of the buzziest films to come out of Cannes, Maps to the Stars, has released a trailer. David Cronenberg’s showbiz satire stars Julianne Moore (who won the best actress award at Cannes) as...
Trailer Watch: Dakota Fanning is a Rebellious Victorian Teen Bride in ‘Effie Gray’
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...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Lawrence is No Ordinary Wife in Susanne Bier’s ‘Serena’
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...
Trailer Watch: Claire Danes is a “Soldier in a War” and a New Mom in ‘Homeland’ Season 4
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...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Lopez is Stalked by ‘The Boy Next Door’
Jennifer Lopez returns to the thriller genre in The Boy Next Door, a lascivious guilty pleasure about obsession and control. Lopez plays a teacher and single mother who has a one-night stand with...
Watch: Melissa Silverstein Talks About Hollywood’s Woman Problem
The best-performing movie of 2013 was The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, starring Jennifer Lawrence as the ass-kicking, fast-thinking Katniss Everdeen. And yet we’re still in the position of having...
Trailer Watch: Hilary Swank and Emmy Rossum in ALS Drama ‘You’re Not You’
Oscar season tends to be so dominated by male faces and voices that it’s refreshing to see a film about female-friendship in the mix. In the ALS drama You’re Not You, Hilary Swank and Emmy...
Trailer Watch: Katie Holmes Teaches Children and Criminals Lessons as a Vigilante in ‘Miss Meadows’
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...