Films
Mia Wasikowska is teaming up with another woman director. The “Alice in Wonderland” actress is set to follow up “Bergman Island,” Mia Hansen-Løve’s English-language...
Trailers
Susan Sarandon pleads for her family to “behave as normally as possible” in a new trailer for “Blackbird.” Lily (Sarandon) has gathered her loved ones to say goodbye:...
Features
Writer-director Mirrah Foulkes has described “Judy & Punch” as a “bat-shit crazy origin story about the Punch and Judy puppet show.” After seeing it, I’d attest to...
A live-action reinterpretation of the 16th-century puppet show, “Judy & Punch” sees Judy (Mia Wasikowska) taking on her abuser, a renowned puppeteer who deserves less credit than his...
Mia Wasikowska wakes up bloodied and beaten in a new trailer for “Judy & Punch.” “Do you remember what happened to you?” she’s asked. The only way she can respond is...
Mirrah Foulkes’ self-proclaimed “bat-shit crazy origin story about the Punch and Judy puppet show” has found a home. Samuel Goldwyn Films snagged North American rights to...
Three generations of award-winning actresses are teaming up. Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton, and Mia Wasikowska are signed on to star in “Blackbird,” an English-language remake of 2014...
Festivals, News, Women Directors
Just as her second directorial effort premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, Mia Wasikowska’s first directorial project can now be seen online. Wasikowska, who has starred as the...
News, Videos
Mia Wasikowska is returning to Wonderland to reprise her role as Alice, and a new trailer gives us a sense of what adventures await her through the looking glass. Wasikowska will go from battling...
News, Trailers, Videos
“Ghosts are real. That much I know. I’ve seen them all my life.” So begins the spooky trailer for “Crimson Peak,” a gorgeous-looking gothic horror starring Mia Wasikowska as Edith, a...
One of the buzziest films to come out of Cannes, Maps to the Stars, has released a trailer. David Cronenberg’s showbiz satire stars Julianne Moore (who won the best actress award at Cannes) as...
Features, Films, News
Froman exclusive Manhattan girls’ prep school where the teachers may or may not bedrinking the blood of their students, to a woman abandoning city life to trek1,700 miles across the Australian...
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...
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...
News
The Weinstein Company, as of late, has been nabbing some high profile women centric titles. In May, they picked up the Judi Dench starrer, Philomena, about a woman who looks for the son she was...
Here are some links from when we were away that might interest people: Summer Stories Hollywood is in Trouble, and We’re All Going to Pay (New Republic) Good News And Bad News Of 2013 Summer...
After taking a look at the women directed films in the galas and special presentations, we also wanted to take a look at the women centric films that will be receiving lots of attention in...
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in Carol–an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt. Phyllis Nagy wrote the screenplay and Todd Haynes is set to...
The media and art that I always tend to be attracted to, some would say, could fall into the disturbing spectrum. I like messy, complicated and at times psychotic female characters. This has ranged...
Stoker follows India (Mia Wasikowska) after her father’s death when her mysterious Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) moves in with her and her emotionally unstable mother (Nicole Kidman). India begins...
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