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Trailer Watch: Extended Spot for The Fault in Our Stars
An extended trailer has been released for The Fault in Our Stars, and it goes a long way in translating to a three-minute format one of the chief pleasures of John Green’s YA novel: the book’s...
Watch: A Jem Fan Responds to the Movie’s Whitewashed Casting
Last week, Jem fan Lindsay Taylor took to YouTube to decry the whitewashed casting for Shana Elmsford, the shy African-American character in the 1980s cartoon about a group of foster kids who become...
Trailer Watch: Marion Cotillard in The Immigrant
Eastern European immigrant Ewa (Marion Cotillard) arrives at Ellis Island and is promptly separated from her ailing sister Magda (Angela Sarafyan). Stranded in a new land with no one to turn to, she...
Trailer Watch: Breastmilk Doc Explores the Many Different Ways to Be a Parent and Nourish
After delving into the dangers of contemporary American motherhood in the documentary The Business of Being Born, producer Ricki Lake is back with another parenting-related feature. Directed by Dana...
Trailer Watch: Diane Kurys’ For a Woman + Exclusive Artwork
In Oscar-nominated director Diane Kurys’ (Entre Nous) latest film, a love triangle forms between a man, his wife, and his brother. Michel (Benoit Magimel) and Jean (Nicolas Duvauchelle) believed...
Trailer Watch: A Young Woman Searches for Her Real Identity in Ida
A teenage nun (Agata Trzebuchowska) on the verge of pleging herself to the Catholic Church discovers the truth about her family origins in Ida. Set in 1960s Poland, the Rebecca Lenkiewicz-penned...
Angelina Jolie and Linda Woolverton Talk Maleficent in New Featurette
A new two-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette about Maleficent reveals that the May 30 release will be part-prequel, part-alternate POV. Screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast, The...
Trailer Watch: Chloe Grace Moretz in If I Stay
Life-or-death situations are rarely as literal as the one teenage Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) faces: Should she live or die? In this big-screen adaptation of Gayle Forman’s YA novel If I Stay, Mia,...
TV: Trailer Watch: Orange is the New Black Season 2
At last, at last. Netflix has released a trailer for the second season of Orange is the New Black, and it seems the red-envelope suits have gotten the memo: this isn’t just Piper’s show. We...
Trailer Watch: Jenny Slate in Obvious Child
Here’s the 21st-century romantic comedy you’ve been waiting for. Writer-director Gilian Robespierre’s Obvious Child features former SNL castmember Jenny Slate as a stand-up comedienne named...
Trailer Watch: Gone Girl Asks, Where’s Amy?
The very first trailer for Gone Girl has been released, and it essentially introduces novelist Gillian Flynn’s story to newbies. While Nick (Ben Affleck) searches for his missing wife Amy...
Trailer Watch: Food Industry Scrutinized in Fed Up
“This is the first generation of American children expected to lead shorter lives than their parents,” intones a talking head in Stephanie Soechtig’s sugar expose Fed Up. “Over 95% of all...
Trailer Watch: Helen Hunt Discovers Cancer Gene in Decoding Annie Parker
The revolutionary discovery that breast cancer can be passed from mother to daughter through the BRCA1 gene gets the big-screen treatment in Decoding Annie Parker. Samantha Morton plays the titular...
TV: Trailer Watch: New Preview for Season 2
The Orphan Black team has released a second trailer for the upcoming season. This new cut of last month’s teaser is arguably more newbie-friendly. It explains Orphan Black’s premise: “We’re...
Watch: How Kamala Khan Is Changing Comics and Readers
Kamala Khan isn’t just the first Muslim superheroine — she’s a one-girl revolution. Created by Marvel editor Sana Amanat, writer G. Willow Wilson, and artist Adrian Alphona, Kamala is the...
Trailer Watch: Michelle Monaghan Returns Home After Afghanistan in Fort Bliss
Michelle Monaghan (True Detective, Source Code) takes on the leading writer-director Claudia Myers’ Fort Bliss, a career-versus-family drama about an Army medic who prefers the landmine-ridden...
Trailer Watch: Gia Coppola Makes Her Directorial Debut with Palo Alto
Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola and niece of Sofia Coppola, makes her directorial debut with Palo Alto, a loose adaptation of James Franco’s short-story collection. Franco...
Trailer Watch: Scarlett Johnasson Has Superpowers in Lucy
Lucy is the film we’ve been waiting for. At the very least, it certainly looks like the film we’ve been waiting for, an action flick about a badass with superpowers with an original premise,...
Trailer Watch: Toni Collette Searches for a Lost Love in Lucky Them
After seeing her in a string of mom roles for the past few years, it’s nice to see Toni Collette out and about again. In director Megan Griffiths’ Lucky Them, Collette plays a veteran rock...
TV: Addiction Unmoors Nurse Jackie in Season 6 Sneak Peek
Showtime has released a video previewing the upcoming season of Nurse Jackie, which finds Edie Falco’s damaged-caretaker character back in the grips of her pill addiction. Season six looks like a...
Trailer Watch: Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves
A French trailer has been released for Kelly Reichardt’s fifth feature, the eco-thriller Night Moves. Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, and Peter Sarsgaard star as a trio of extreme...
Trailer Watch: Angelina Jolie Sprouts Wings in New Maleficent Spot
While previous trailers for Maleficent focused on the surrogate mother-daughter relationship between the titular sorceress (Angelina Jolie) and Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning), the newest video for...
Trailer Watch: Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep Season 3
In the third season of HBO’s Veep, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) will run to become the first female president of the United States of America. If you think there’s anything remotely...
Trailer Watch: Kristen Wiig in Hateship Loveship
Kristen Wiig helped launch the female buddy comedy with Bridesmaids, but the former SNL star has been skewing toward dramatic roles since her breakout hit. Wiig has already received great notices...
Trailer Watch: Mia Wasikowska in New Tracks Video
The Aussie travel-by-camel adventure Tracks still hasn’t found a U.S. release date, but it does have going for it a newly cut trailer. Everyting we previously wrote about the film still holds...
Trailer Watch: Nicole Kidman as Grace of Monaco
If there’s one thing Game of Thrones has taught us, it’s that being a princess really, really sucks. Grace of Monaco makes the same point with a drama set in an era closer to our own time. The...
Trailer Watch: Juliette Binoche in A Thousand Times Goodnight
Emotional detachment is a career advantage for journalists and photographers, but less welcome within the demanding confines of domestic life. That’s what war photographer Rebecca (Juliette...
TV: Trailer Watch: Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black Season 2
The clone drama Orphan Black, starring Golden Globe nominee Tatiana Maslany as seven different women (and counting!), helped put BBC America on the must-see map. Maslany plays seven...
Trailer Watch: Catherine Deneuve in On My Way
After opening the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival (March 6–16), the Catherine Deneuve vehicle On My Way will be released on March 14. Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot, On My Way is a...
Trailer Watch: Quvenzhane Wallis in Annie
I (Melissa) grew up in the era of Annie. For my generation, it was our Wicked. It was the first Broadway show I saw and it helped spark my love of theatre. I carried around that red album to and...
Trailer Watch: Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love
Girls and women begin their sexual lives in as many ways as there are girls and women, so any filmic depiction of burgeoning female sexuality that doesn’t take place in a softly lit...
Trailer Watch: Halle Berry in Frankie and Alice
The story of Frankie and Alice’s long road to theaters is nearly as hardscrabble as the life of its protagonist. Or is that protagonists, since Halle Berry plays an eager-to-please lap-dancer and...
Trailer Watch: Melissa McCarthy in Tammy Teaser
As the first film to boast Melissa McCarthy’s writing credits, Tammy already made our Most Anticipated Films of 2014 list back in January. We’re not entirely cool with the premise that Susan...
Trailer Watch: Divergent Finally Looks Amazing
Divergent, out March 21, doesn’t seem to be garnering as much interest or as excitement as it should. The film adaptation of the first installment of Veronica Roth’s best-selling YA trilogy is...
Trailer Watch: The Fault in Our Stars
Is there a way to tell a romance involving a teenage cancer patient that isn’t cheesy, exploitative, or politically regressive? Author John Green certainly tried to find a way with his...
Watch the Sundance Spotlight on Women Directors Panel
Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood founder, Anne Thompson moderated a women’s director panel at Sundance, and a video of the discussion was released earlier this week by SundanceNOW’s Doc Club....
Trailer Watch: Angelina Jolie in New Maleficent Spot
“There is evil in this world. Hatred. Revenge,” Maleficent declares in the new Maleficent trailer. Then she giggles — not girlishly or coquettishly, but with ironic bemusement, like...
Monday Morning Pick You Up: Carole King and Sara Bareilles Duet at the Grammys
To help get your work week off on the right foot, check out this inspirational performance from rock music legend (and recipient of the 2014 Music Cares honor) Carole King and the amazingly talented...
Disney Helps More Girls See Themselves Onscreen with Multilingual “Let It Go” Video
There’s a small but crucial scene in Frozen that’s merits some discussion. It occurs early in the film during Anna’s song “For the First Time in Forever,” when she imagines she might meet...
Mark Ruffalo Defends Abortion on Roe v. Wade Anniversary
In commemoration of yesterday’s 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion across the United States, Mark Ruffalo has released a video with the Center for Reproductive...
Trailer Watch: Freida Mock’s Anita
“Once I got subpoena’d, I knew what I had to do. I’m gonna tell what happened to me.” Directed by Oscar nominee Freida Mock, Anita focuses on the Clarence Thomas hearings, particularly the...
Trailer Watch: Walk of Shame
On TV’s 30 Rock, Elizabeth Banks was a revelation as Avery Jessup, a Megyn Kelly-like conservative news anchor. Now the movies are finally giving Banks a chance to prove her comedic chops after...
Watch the Athena Film Fest 2014 Trailer
The 2014 Athena Film Festival has released a trailer for the February event. Watch the video below, read the full Athena lineup here, and see you there!
Trailer Watch: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s The Mask You Live In
Sometimes you wear the mask, and sometimes the mask wears you. After the success of her documentary Miss Representation, which details the mainstream media’s pernicious effects on girls, Jennifer...
Trailer Watch: Veronica Mars’ Theatrical Preview
The official trailer has been released for the much anticipated Veronica Mars movie. Thankfully, it turns away from the “choosing boyfriends” theme of the previously released “first look” to...
Exclusive Trailer: Hannah Espia’s Transit
In 2010, Israel began deporting the children of migrant workers, many of whom were fluent only in Hebrew and had never seen the land of their parents. First-time director Hannah Espia’s Transit...
Ellen DeGeneres is Utterly Charming in the First Oscars Trailer
After last year’s Seth MacFarlane fiasco, the Academy apparently took a long, hard look at itself in the mirror and asked, “What the hell were we thinking?” because it wisely invited Ellen...
Trailer Watch: The Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending
The Wachowski siblings are back with a new film, Jupiter Ascending, that looks much more conventional in form than their last project, the time-shifting Cloud Atlas. Mila Kunis plays Jupiter Jones,...
Trailer Watch: Mia Wasikowska Seeks Adventure and Meaning in ‘Tracks’
Few actresses can get me as instantly excited about a film as Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska. I’ll see almost anything she’s in, though I’ll admit to being turned off her...
Happy Friday: Listen and Watch Idina Menzel Sing the Hell Out of Let it Go
If you haven’t seen Frozen yet and you needed something to tip you towards the theatre, Disney has released the most powerful sequence and centerpiece of the film — Idina Menzel as Elsa...
We Are Mis-Represented
Great video from the folks at The Representation Project proving that there is still so much work to do. Here’s to a world with better media representation of women. It’s what we all need. Way...