Weekly Update
Weekly Update for May 13: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
“Money Monster” Films About Women Opening This Week Sunset Song (Opens in NY, LA, and Toronto) The film takes place during the early years of the twentieth century, with the conflicts and...
Weekly Update for April 29: Women Centric, Directed, and Written Films Playing Near You
“The Wait” Films About Women Opening This Week Viktoria — Written and Directed by Maya Vitkova (Opens in NYC) Maya Vitkova’s debut feature “Viktoria,” follows three generations of...
Weekly Update for April 22: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Meddler — Written and Directed by Lorene Scafaria (Opens in LA and NYC) Susan Sarandon is every young woman’s nightmare — a mom with nothing...
Weekly Update for April 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Sky — Directed by Fabienne Berthaud; Co-Written by Fabienne Berthhaud and Lucy Allwood Fleeing from the scene of a terrible crime, a young woman (Diane...
Weekly Update for April 8: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Boss — Co-Written by Melissa McCarthy Melissa McCarthy headlines “The Boss” as a titan of industry who is sent to prison after she’s caught for...
Weekly Update for April 1: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week No Home Movie (Documentary) — Written and Directed by Chantal Akerman “No Home Movie” is a portrait of director Chantal Akerman’s relationship with...
Weekly Update for March 25: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 — Written by Nia Vardalos Written by Academy Award-nominee Nia Vardalos, who stars alongside the entire returning cast of...
Weekly Update for March 18: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Divergent Series: Allegiant The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, “Allegiant” takes Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo...
Weekly Update for March 11: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Lolo — Directed by Julie Delpy; Written by Julie Delpy and Eugenie Grandval (Opens in NYC) Violette (Julie Delpy), a 40-year old workaholic with a career...
Weekly Update for March 4: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Tina Fey takes on the female midlife crisis and blows up her life by heading to Afghanistan to cover the war. She has no idea what she is...
Weekly Update for February 26: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (select IMAX theaters and streaming on Netflix) In this sequel to “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” four...
Weekly Update for February 19: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Witch In this exquisitely made and terrifying new horror film, the age-old concepts of witchcraft, black magic and possession are innovatively brought...
Weekly Update for February 12: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week How To Be Single — Co-Written by Dana Fox and Abby Kohn Single ladies Alice (Dakota Johnson) and Robin (Rebel Wilson) try to find the right way to be single...
Weekly Update for February 5: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Pride and Prejudice and Zombies A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships...
Weekly Update for January 29: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Jane Got a Gun A woman (Natalie Portman) asks her ex-lover (Joel Edgerton) for help in order to save her outlaw husband (Noel Emmerich) from a gang out to kill...
Weekly Update for January 22: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This WeekThe 5th Wave — Co-Written by Susannah Grant In the new film “The 5th Wave,” four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth decimated....
Weekly Update for December 18: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This WeekSisters — Written by Paula Pell We can’t ever get enough of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, so we’re excited that the sweet and salty “Sisters” is a...
Weekly Update for December 11: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Bleeding Heart — Written and Directed by Diane Bell “Bleeding Heart” follows the story of May (Jessica Biel), a yoga instructor who finds herself...
Weekly Update for December 4: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This WeekChi-Raq “Chi-Raq” is a modern-day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by a stray bullet, a group...
Weekly Update for November 25: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Janis: Little Girl Blue (Documentary) — Directed by Amy Berg (Opens November 27) Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin’s evolution...
Weekly Update for November 20: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 Three years have passed since Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) fired her first arrow in “The Hunger Games.” She...
Weekly Update for November 13: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Ayanda — Directed by Sara Blecher; Written by Trish Malone In a community vibrant with migrants from across the African continent, against the backdrop of...
Weekly Update for November 6: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Miss You Already — Directed by Catherine Hardwicke; Written by Morwenna Banks — Women and Hollywood’s Pick of the Week In a year filled with great...
Weekly Update for October 30: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Our Brand is Crisis After her Oscar-nominated performance in “Gravity,” Sandra Bullock returns to comedy in “Our Brand is Crisis,” in which she plays a...
(A Celebratory) Weekly Update for October 23: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
It’s a great week for women at the movies. It’s not often that we can say that, but this lineup of new releases by and about women is well worth celebrating. The story behind women’s...
Weekly Update for October 16: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Truth Cate Blanchett is at the peak of her talents as producer Mary Mapes, who, along with Robert Redford as Dan Rather, takes the fall for reporting on a false...
Weekly Update for October 9: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week A Ballerina’s Tale (Documentary) — Opens October 14 There are not enough words to describe the joy and sheer feeling of inspiration watching Misty...
Weekly Update for October 2: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Freeheld “Freeheld” tells the story of Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), a veteran police detective who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, and her fight to...
Weekly Update for September 25: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Keeping Room — Written by Julia Hart Unlike most war narratives, this one tells the story of women left behind after the men go to war and never...
Weekly Update for September 18: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Sicario Emily Blunt continues her streak playing kickass women in this gripping thriller about an idealistic FBI Agent, Kate Mercer, who is scouted by a...
Weekly Update for September 11: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This WeekBreathe — Written and Directed by Mélanie Laurent With her second feature, actress-turned-director Melanie Laurent has made one of the best movies of the...
Weekly Update for September 4: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This WeekNumber One Fan — Written and Directed by Jeanne Herry Muriel Bayen (Sandrine Kiberlain), a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She...
Weekly Update for August 28: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Second Mother — Written and Directed by Anna Muylaert August’s only film with a woman-of-color lead looks to be one of this month’s strongest...
Weekly Update for August 21: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This WeekGrandma — Women and Hollywood’s Pick of the Week It’s Lily Tomlin’s year: She received an Emmy nomination for the first season of her Netflix series...
Weekly Update for August 14: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Mistress America — Co-Written by Greta Gerwig — Women and Hollywood’s Pick of the Week As the titular character in 2012’s “Frances Ha,” Greta...
Weekly Update for August 7: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Ricki and the Flash — Written by Diablo Cody Meryl Streep takes on another musical role as aging rocker Ricki Randazzo, who left her family years ago to...
Weekly Update for July 31: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Jenny’s Wedding — Written and Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue When Jenny Farell (Katherine Heigl) decides to marry the love of her life, Kitty (Alexis...
Weekly Update for July 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Unexpected — Directed by Kris Swanberg; Written by Megan Mercier and Kris Swanberg Rarely do we see stories about pregnancy represented onscreen. Rarer...
Weekly Update for July 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Trainwreck — Written by Amy Schumer It’s Amy Schumer’s time. The woman is everywhere, mostly in a good way. She’s brash, funny, feminist and riding...
Weekly Update for July 10: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Tangerine It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown, and Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been...
Weekly Update for July 3: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Amy (Documentary) Despite just two albums to her name, Amy Winehouse is one of the biggest music icons in British history. With a voice oft described as a combination of...
Weekly Update for June 26: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week A Little Chaos — Co-Written by Alison Deegan A drama following Sabine (Kate Winslet), a strong-willed and talented landscape designer who is chosen to build...
Weekly Update for June 19: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Inside Out (Pick of the Week) Pixar’s latest film is nothing short of brilliant. Taking place within the colorful labyrinth of an 11-year-old girl’s brain,...
Weekly Update for June 12: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Madame Bovary — Directed and Co-Written by Sophie Barthes (Also available on VOD) Set in Normandy, France, this is the classic story of Emma Bovary (Mia...
Weekly Update for June 5: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Spy — Pick of the Week Melissa McCarthy finally gets the star vehicle worthy of her in “Spy,” a jet-setting caper that hilariously deconstructs the...
Weekly Update for May 29: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Gemma Bovery — Co-Written and Directed by Anne Fontaine Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her...
Weekly Update for May 22: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Aloft — Directed and Written by Claudia Llosa As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an...
Weekly Update for May 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Mad Max: Fury Road — Women-Centric Pick of the Week This post-apocalyptic feminist action-adventure story features Charlize Theron in her most kick-ass role...
Weekly Update for May 8: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Hot Pursuit (Don’t Mess With Texas) — Directed by Anne Fletcher Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara play opposites on a road trip fleeing for their lives....
Weekly Update for May 1: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week Far From the Madding Crowd Carey Mulligan is luminous and inspiring as self-reliant landowner Bathsheba Everdene in “Far from the Madding Crowd.” The Thomas...
Weekly Update for April 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Week The Age of Adaline The best reason to watch “The Age of Adaline,” a romance starring Blake Lively as a lonely woman who can’t age past 29, is the...