Features, Festivals, News
The following is excerpted from Sophie Mayer’s “Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema,” published in December 2015. Just over a year ago, the 2014 European Film Awards might have thought...
Features, News
Movies about women make 20% more money than movies about men, but female protagonists continue to disappear from the big screen. Gender in the larger Oscar conversation has largely focused on the...
Features, News, Women Directors
Female directors accounted for only 17 of the top 250 grossing films of 2014 — a mere 6.8%. As paltry as this number is, it represents a minor improvement from 2013, when women comprised 6% of...
Awards, News, Women Directors
Selma has been named the African-American Film Critics Association’s top movie of the year. The first studio picture with Martin Luther King, Jr., as the protagonist won accolates from the AAFCA...
Interviews, News
Given the central role that overt sexuality plays in female pop and hip-hop stardom, I’m sure we’ve all wondered what the performers are thinking as they parade down the red carpet, on stage, or...
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