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Watch: “Women in Refrigerators” Supercut: Female Characters Killed to Give Male Characters Depth
The recent release of a “women in refrigerators” supercut is an infuriating reminder — as if you needed one — of how female characters are (under)utilized and (under)valued onscreen....
Trailer Watch: Studio Ghibli’s Eerily Beautiful ‘The Tale of Princess Kaguya’
Based on the 10th-century Japanese folktale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” The Tale of Princess Kaguya depicts the title character’s life from early childhood into adulthood. The animated...
Trailer Watch: Susan Sarandon Hunts a Serial Killer in ‘The Calling’
Trailer Watch: Marion Cotillard Has ‘Two Days, One Night’ to Get Her Job Back
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...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Kent’s Sundance Favorite ‘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...
Trailer Watch: Acrobats Fly and Crash in ‘Born To Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs Gravity’
“Part of the deal is, you walk into the room and you agree to get hurt. You might get a little hurt.” That’s the unapologetic attitude extreme choreographer Elizabeth Streb takes with her...
Trailer Watch: US Trailer for Juliette Binoche’s 1,000 Times Goodnight
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Trailer Watch: I Am Eleven is a Charming Look at Being Between Childhood and Adolescence
Australian documentarian Genevieve Bailey found herself dispirited working for a newspaper as a college student, reading bad news day after day. She worried especially about how that bad news would...
Trailer Watch: Kristen Stewart Heads to Guantanamo in Camp X-Ray
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...
Watch: Actual Superheroine Can’t Get a Movie Made About Her in Hollywood
Angelfire is a superheroine who knows her worth. And that worth? The center spotlight in a movie all about her — not as a sidekick, a recurring pair of boobs, or a sacrificial love interest to...
Clear Your Thursday Nights for Shonda Rhimes
Sometime during Scandal’s feverish sophomore season, Shonda Rhimes became more than a brand — she became a powerhouse. Sure, she was already a known commodity from the wildly popular...
Trailer Watch: Sleeping with the Fishes Captures La Vida Loca in a Latino-Jewish Family
I Love Lucy debuted over 60 years ago, and yet there are still so few movies and TV shows about mixed-race families, especially from a female POV. Writer-director Nicole Gomez Fisher helps fill in...
Trailer Watch: Mercenaries Beats ExpendaBelles to the Big Screen
While we wait for The ExpendaBelles to arrive, mockbuster-factory The Asylum has churned out Mercenaries, a prison break-out-then-break-in action thriller starring Kristanna Loken, Zoe Bell, Vivica...
Trailer Watch: Peek Inside the Hallowed Halls of Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club
“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...
Trailer Watch: Katniss Joins the Rebellion in Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 Teaser
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...
Trailer Watch: First Look at Susanne Bier’s A Second Chance
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...
Trailer Watch: Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell Battle for Sexual Dominance in Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie
Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell are perfectly cast as an uptight but secretly passionate noblewoman and an unrepentant horndog in Norwegian director Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie. The adaptation of...
Trailer Watch: New Spot for Chloe Grace Moretz’s Teen Melodrama If I Stay
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...
Trailer Watch: Fifty Shades of Grey Doesn’t Bother with the Niceties
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...
Trailer Watch: Dear White People Tackles the Myth of Post-Racial America
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...
Trailer Watch: It’s All About Carrie in Season Four
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...
Trailer Watch: Keira Knightley As You’ve Never Seen Her Before in Lynn Shelton’s Laggies
Keira Knightley recently swore off the corsets and wigs that have made her a star in period films like Pride and Prejudice and Anna Karenina. Not all her forays into playing people born in the 20th...
Trailer Watch: Director Cherien Dabis Makes Her Screen Debut in May in the Summer
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...
Trailer Watch: New Spot for Juliette Binoche/Kristen Stewart Drama Clouds of Sils Maria
A new trailer has been released for the director Olivier Assayas’ Palme d’Or contender Clouds of Sils Maria. The showbiz melodrama centers on an aging actress, Maria (Juliette Binoche),...
Trailer Watch: Reese Witherspoon Heals Herself in “Wild”
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...
Trailer Watch: First Spot for Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken
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...
Trailer Watch: Catherine Keener Tries to Find Her “War Story”
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...
Trailer Watch: A Man Robs a Bank for Love in the Documentary “The Dog”
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...
Trailer Watch: It’s Not Easy (But It Sure Looks Like Fun) “To Be Takei”
In his 77 years, George Takei has lived many lives: Star Trek actor, radio announcer, (heterosexual) sex symbol, Japanese-American activist, LGBT activist, social-media icon, and, at long last,...
Trailer Watch: Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a Troubled Pop Star in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights
After starring in Amma Asante’s Austenesque romance Belle, Gugu Mbatha-Raw will next be seen as a troubled pop star in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights. At the Los Angeles Film...
Trailer Watch: Maggie Gyllenhaal is a British Arms Dealer in The Honorable Woman
Maggie Gyllenhaal has joined the mass migration of prestige film actresses to television. The Dark Knight and Crazy Heart co-star has finally found a role worthy of her considerable talents in...
Trailer Watch: Abigail Breslin is the Final Girl
The Final Girl — the purehearted stock character who turns the tables on the killer by the end of the horror movie — has become so famous she’s gotten her own movie. A blonde Abigail...
Trailer Watch: Reese Witherspoon Continues Her Comeback Tour with The Good Lie
Fans of Reese Witherspoon will have plenty of chances to see her this Oscar season. She’ll be in the big-screen adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild (out December 5) and the much-anticipated...
Watch: Laverne Cox Talks About the “Transgender Tipping Point”
Laverne Cox isn’t as much on the new season of Orange is the New Black as some (including myself) would like, but fortunately she’s everywhere else these days. Two weeks ago, Cox became the...
Trailer Watch: Chloe Grace Moretz Wavers Between Life and Death in New If I Stay Trailer
Life-or-death situations are rarely as literal as the one teenage Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) faces: Should she live or die? A new trailer has been released for the big-screen adaptation of Gayle...
Trailer Watch: Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen Stop Being ‘Very Good Girls’
Following on the heels of Elizabeth Olsen’s Godzilla and Dakota Fanning’s Night Moves is the directorial debut of veteran screenwriter Naomi Foner. Very Good Girls, also penned by Foner, stars...
Trailer Watch: Quvenzhane Wallis Anoints Herself Robin to Jamie Foxx’s Batman in New Annie Spot
Though he just starred as a villain in the new Spider-Man sequel, Jamie Foxx styles himself as a hero — namely, Batman — in the new Annie trailer. “This city needs me,” declares his...
Trailer Watch: Robin Wright Animates Herself in The Congress
Actresses of a certain age will take any number of drastic measures to stop the march of time, but few are probably brave enough to undergo the extreme procedure Robin Wright volunteers for in The...
Trailer Watch: Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria
A tangle of jealousy, co-dependency and desire draws together Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Grace Moretz in French director Olivier Assayas’ Palme d’Or contender Clouds of...
Halle Berry Goes to Space: First Look at Extant
The trailer for Halle Berry’s Extant is here, and it’s mighty creepy. After a 13 month solo space mission, astronaut Molly Woods returns home… pregnant. Piecing together what happened on her...
Trailer Watch: Tea Leoni Is Madam Secretary
Some sources (i.e. the whole world) have speculated that CBS’s new series Madam Secretary will focus on a character loosely based on — or inspired by — former U.S. Secretary of State...
Trailer Watch: Helen Mirren Stars in The Hundred-Foot Journey
The trailer is out for The Hundred-Foot Journey, which stars Helen Mirren as Madame Mallory, the owner of a swanky French restaurant. Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg joined forces to produce the...
Trailer Watch: Shonda Rhimes’ How To Get Away With Murder
A full trailer has arrived for How To Get Away With Murder right on the heels of ABC’s upfront presentation. Unsurprisingly, it looks very addictive — the legal thriller is co-created and...
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Jason Leigh Stars in Jane Weinstock’s The Moment
The trailer has been released for psychological drama The Moment, which stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as a woman questioning reality — and whether or not she’s a murderer. The film is directed...
Exclusive Clip from Jocelyn Towne’s I AM I
I AM I is written and directed by Jocelyn Towne and is “story of a young woman, Rachael (Towne), who meets her estranged father Gene (Kevin Tighe) at her mother’s funeral. Eager to get to know...
Trailers for NBC’s New Women-Centric Series: Bad Judge, State of Affairs, and The Mysteries of Laura
Las week we told you about some of the women-centric pilots that have been picked up, and now we can share some footage from the series. NBC has released trailers for Bad Judge, State of Affairs,...
Cannes Trailer Watch: Alice Rohrwacher’s Le Meraviglie
The trailer for Alice Rohrwacher’s Le Meraviglie has been released. The film will premiere at Cannes and is in competition for the Palme d’Or. Only one other film directed by a woman will be...
Trailer Watch: Melissa McCarthy Is a Fugitive From Justice in Tammy
Melissa McCarthy’s much anticipated summer comedy Tammy will focus on a broke woman who discovers that her husband is cheating on her. She then embarks on an eventful and ill-fated road trip to...
Watch: Kimberly Peirce Encourages the Next Generation of AFI Women Directors
As the keynote speaker at the 2014 AFI Directing Worshop for Women Showcase, Kimberly Peirce was upfront about the difficult road that her listeners had ahead of them while congratulating them for...
Hollywood Men Star in White House PSA Against Sexual Assault
After releasing a depressing but unsurprising report that 1 in 5 female college students are sexually assaulted, the White House posted a PSA on its YouTube account starring President Obama and VP...