#Actress
AFI Picks Top TV Shows and Films of the Year
This list reminds me that even though they have been upteen articles about how women are making great strides, there is still such a long way to go, because as I look at the lists I notice that...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren co-hosted the Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo over the weekend with Rosario Dawson. The concert honored Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Tawakkul...
Young Adult
I heart Young Adult. I heart it because it is an awesome and original story. I heart it because Charlize Theron hits it out of the park as the horribly bitchy Mavis a woman stuck in her high school...
Talking Oscars and Feminism with Scott Feinberg of the Hollywood Reporter
Check out this audio interview I did with Scott Feinberg — Oscar analyst at the Hollywood Reporter. We talked about the Oscar race with a feminist slant. I really enjoyed the...
Interview with Diablo Cody
Diablo Cody was kindly able to take a few minutes to talk Young Adult and feminism in the film business on the eve of the opening of her new film. It’s good to know that we have a strong feminist...
Watch the Q and A With Meryl Streep and Phyllida Lloyd
You make have to wait another couple of weeks to see the film but now you can watch the Q and A conducted by The Hollywood Reporter’s Scott Feinberg on Tuesday night at the DGA theatre in...
Take a Look at the Busiest Woman in Movies This Year: Jessica Chastain
If you haven’t seen Jessica Chastain in a movie this year, you haven’t been to the movies because she has been in five, some big and some small. Most actors would be lucky to have one role that...
New Trailer for The Iron Lady
Film opens December 30
What Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep Have in Common
I know I am lucky. I get to watch and think about movies and write about them and talk about them. But being a blogger, I don’t very often get to see the people in the movies or those who make the...
Meryl Streep Receives Kennedy Center Honor
Meryl Streep along with several other esteemed artists including Yo Yo Ma, Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond and Sonny Rollins were honored at the 34th Kennedy Center honors on Sunday evening. The...
Charlize Theron Talks About Her Life and Young Adult
A very impressive woman. She started a foundation in her home country of South Africa to end sexual violence and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS. Young Adult starts rolling out this weekend and will...
The Sundance 2012 Competition Lineup: The Women
Sundance unveiled the competition lineups. Here is the first look at the US Dramatic and Documentary competition. There are 16 films in each category. In the dramatic category, 3 are directed by...
Streep and Chastain Only Women Recognized by NY Film Critics Circle
The NY Film Critics Circle a group comprised of about 30 NY area critics and writers used twitter yesterday to announce their annual winners and not surprisingly women did not figure anywhere on the...
Dirty Trailer for Young Adult — written by Diablo Cody
If you think you knew what Young Adult was about, this will throw a wrench in those thoughts. Just please don’t play this around the kids — it’s good and dirty.
Gotham Award Winners: The Women
The awards season began in earnest last evening with the IFP sponsored Gotham Awards. Here are the female winners: Breakthrough Director — Dee Rees — Pariah — hopefully this is...
Cross-Post: Oscars 2011: Single Fathers and the Vanishing Mothers
One of the threads running through this year’s Oscar race is the single father who must pull things together for the sake of his kids. This is especially poignant in three films — Moneyball,...
Some Articles to Ponder
Here are some articles worth a look before the work takes over again tomorrow- Cinema Blend: Arthur Christmas Director On The Logic Of Santa And Her Idea For A Sequel New Yorker: CRASS WARFARE LA...
Breaking Dawn Scores 5th Highest Opening Weekend Ever
Women dominated the box office this weekend. Breaking Dawn grossed $139.5 million here in the US and another $144 million overseas making it the 5th highest opening domestic weekend EVER. It was...
Guest Post: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 High Heels, White Weddings, Broken Headboards, and Bella as Pregnant Martyr by Natalie Wilson
While the first Twilight film was directed by a woman, all subsequent adaptations have had males at the helm. The first adaptation, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, featured a Bella that was...
Breaking Dawn Gets Ready to Take The Weekend Box Office
Well it looks like the Twilight phenomenon has corrupted one who I thought was immune — Manohla Dargis of the NY Times who wrote in her review today that she “had surrendered.” She also...
Trailer Watch: Brave
Pixar’s first female lead kicks some butt. Opens in the summer of 2012.
Meryl Streep: Political Biopic of an “Old Lady” Will be a Hard Sell at the Box Office
Evening Standard writer Liz Hoggard reports about a dinner she was invited to at the home of The Iron Lady director Phyllida Lloyd to talk about film with several other female writers along with...
First Reviews — The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady was unveiled for critics in London and clearly there was no embargo since the reviews have been coming in. Neither one of the reviews below is a rave except for Streep’s performance....
The Bridesmaids Effect: Imogene
The folks from Coming Soon have posted some first photos from Imogene the new comedy starring Kristen Wiig and Annette Bening. Here’s the description from imdb: A playwright stages a suicide in...
A Good Day for Women and Film
This morning I posted the trailers for both The Iron Lady and The Hunger Games. I watched them both, got excited and then I went off to do other things. A couple of minutes ago it dawned on me how...
Trailer Watch: The Hunger Games
Bring it On!
Trailer Watch: The Iron Lady (UK Version)
The trailer is clear evidence that Streep will deliver another Oscar caliber performance (as if we had any doubt.) Whether the movie stands up, still remains to be seen. But this is clearly going to...
Trailer Watch: Snow White and the Huntsman
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Actress Roundtable
Here is a look at some of the women we will be talking about for the next several months. THR’s Actress Roundtable: Six A-Listers Sound Off on Bad Reviews, Nudity and Playing Hitler (HR)
Photo Watch: Meryl as Margaret
The Iron Lady is scheduled to open on December 30 via The Telegraph
Melissa McCarthy Covers EW Comedy Issue
Here’s the great photo of her on the cover and also her as Divine. Issue lands on newsstands today. Here’s some of her quotes: But I think I’m more confident than I’ve ever felt in...
Melissa McCarthy Hosts SNL
I’m traveling abroad so I can’t access some of the clips that look so great, but I will put in links to sites that you can access in case you missed the show. From posts on the blogosphere it...
Melissa McCarthy Covers The Hollywood Reporter
This brings a very big smile to my face. Fresh off her Emmy win, McCarthy will host SNL this weekend. This is really her moment. But it’s not like it will be downhill for her. I think she is still...
Laugh Out Loud Bridesmaids Blooper Reel
I loved seeing Jill Clayburgh h/t Jezebel
The Help Rises to Number One at the Box Office in Week Two
The story with Hollywood movies is that films open big in their first weekend and then drop off precipitously in their second weekend as a film opening takes the box office crown. That is not the...
Melissa McCarthy Gets Some New Gigs
The Melissa McCarthy express is keeping on rolling. She has just signed up to host the 2nd episode of SNL, and she was signed on for a new film called ID Theft with Jason Bateman. The big news about...
The Controversy Over The Help
The Help has stirred up many emotions since it opened on Wednesday. But that hasn’t prevented the film from becoming a hit. It grossed over $35 million since it opened and already made back its...
Cross Post: Going to See The Help at The White House by Carol Jenkins
If not for an invitation from Michelle Obama (you know, her people emailed my people) I might have missed seeing The Help. But a request for my presence in the White House screening room was too...
Why The Help Matters
After a long summer of superhero dudes and exploding machines, women are finally getting a one for our team. Actually, a second one. Remember Bridesmaids from May? Doesn’t that seem sooo long ago?...
Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help
Octavia Spencer has the breakout role of her lifetime as Minny Jackson in The Help. She talked about the film and how important it is for women to support women’s films. I have to say that even...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler pens a letter in support of Planned Parenthood. Here’s some of it: You know who is awesome? Cecile Richards. She’s the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She’s...
The Help: Featurette
I know that people have issues with this film (I am planning on reading the book before it’s release in August) but I am down with any movie where Viola Davis talks about making invisible women...
Get Ready For The Help
This is the big women’s summer movie. I didn’t know that Kathryn Stockett who wrote the book was rejected by 60 literary agents. It has now spent 100 weeks on the hardcover best seller list and...
Bridesmaids is a Big Fat Hit!
Women took up the mantle and went to see the film. The gross was about $24.5 (UPDATE — $26.2) million about $10 million more than predicted. I don’t know who does the predicting on these...
Save the Future for Women in Comedy — See Bridesmaids
How did we get to a place in 2011 where the female Hollywood comedian is on the endangered species list? My god we have three female Supreme Court justices, we’ve had three female secretaries of...
In Praise of Melissa McCarthy
I finally saw Bridesmaids last night. LOVED IT. Will have a longer piece later this week, but I wanted to single out Melissa McCarthy for a gush of love immediately. She almost stole the movie from...
Why Bridesmaids Matters
This feels like another cultural watershed moment for women on screen. A big studio comedy that is about women. We all know the difficulties women in comedy have faced. Gone are the days of Goldie...
Bossypants Returns to SNL
The Tina Fey publicity machine of the last couple of weeks has been in full swing. She’s been everywhere to sell her book Bossypants. And clearly, the publicity machine has worked because the book...
Hollywood Feminist of the Day: Amy Poehler
At a dinner this week celebrating the Time 100 list, Amy Poehler seems to have stole the show by thanking her two nannies by name as important people and influences in her life. She thanked them for...
Trailer Alert: Bridesmaids (The Dirty Version)
2 more weeks until Bridesmaids. I’m going to see it next week and I am psyched. This has potential cross over for male and female audiences. Here’s what Russ Fischer said on /Film: “This movie...
Trailer Watch: The Help
This looks great. Opens on August 12.