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We finally have the chance to see Wonder Woman as the star of her own film. And from the looks and sounds of it, our long-awaited superheroine is everything we could hope for. Warner Bros....
Sarah Jessica Parker is back with another rom com. A trailer has been released for writer-director Ella Lemhagen’s "All Roads Lead To Rome," and as the film’s title suggests,...
A trailer has arrived for Jodie Foster’s much anticipated "Money Monster." The star-studded drama focuses on a TV personality, financial guru Lee Gates (George Clooney), who is taken...
One of Mike Nichols’ best-known collaborators has helmed a documentary about the Oscar-winning director and one of his most beloved films. Elaine May has directed an "American...
Bye bye Lady Mary, hello hard-drinking, ex-con Letty Dobesh. TNT has released a preview for "Good Behavior," Michelle Dockery’s follow-up project to "Downton Abbey."...
Netflix is betting big on Britannia. The streaming site has launched a four-minute trailer for its most expensive production to date, a six-season series about Queen Elizabeth II that spans the...
Toni Braxton is getting the biopic treatment. The singer, songwriter and music producer is the subject of Lifetime’s upcoming TV movie "Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart," for which an...
Women and Hollywood is proud to unveil an original video celebrating the work of 2015’s highest-grossing women directors. The video captures some of the year’s most memorable moments in...
People have all sorts of coping strategies to deal with trauma, but crafting and donning gender-bending superhero costumes is one we haven’t heard before. Blurring fact and fiction,...
There’s been no lack of discussion about Blue is the Warmest Color despite the fact that it hasn’t even hit theaters yet. From reviews praising the sex scenes in the film to those that...
The awesome Geena Davis has done a video with Funny or Die to bring awareness about the lack of gender equality in film and television. Watch Davis being totally bad-ass at archery (by the way...
A clip for the upcoming season of Downton Abbey has been released. Season 4 will follow the happenings of the crowd at the Crawley estate six months after the events of season 3. Downton Abbey...
Concussion, hands down one of the sexiest movies of the year, premiered at Sundance and later screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival and Outfest to critical praise. Written and directed by...
Clio Barnard’s latest, The Selfish Giant, has just released a UK trailer. The film, based on Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name, premiered at Cannes earlier this year and recently...
The first trailer for Grace of Monaco starring Nicole Kidman has been released. Kidman plays the former actress Grace Kelly, who married to Prince Rainier III of Monaco and left Hollywood and...
August: Osage County premiered at TIFF garnering a ton of Oscar buzz. The film, based on Tracy Lett’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, follows the Weston daughters (Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis...
Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson, premiered last night at TIFF. The film follows an alien seductress who preys on men while drifting around Scotland. A24 acquired the U.S. rights to...
Ass Backwards, written by and starring Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael, premiered earlier this year at Sundance. The first trailer for the film shows Kate (Wilson) and Chloe (Raphael) who are...
As we previously reported, Alfonso Cuaron got flack from having a female lead in the upcoming Gravity. However with the great reviews of the film coming out of Venice and TIFF, it looks like those...
The second trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s upcoming remake of the horror classic, Carrie, gives a larger glimpse at how Peirce will interpret the classic scenes from the original. Based on...
There’s another Coppola getting into directing. Gia Coppola’s feature debut (which she wrote and directed) Palo Alto, premiered at Telluride and will screen at Toronto the next...
The first trailer for Divergent, based on the first novel in Veronica Roth’s trilogy, was released last week. Starring Shailene Woodley as Beatrice “Tris” Prior, the film is set...
The Book Thief, based on Marcus Zusak’s bestselling novel, follows a young foster girl, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) living with her foster parents outside Munich during the horrors of WWII. Liesel...
As of late, there hasn’t been much news about Catherine Hardwicke’s upcoming, Plush, her first film since 2011’s Red Riding Hood. This week, a trailer and stills for the film...
Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters is the latest in paranormal YA adaptations wanting to take the spot Twilight once held. Adapted from Richelle Mead’s bestselling series, the film follows Rose...
Ava DuVernay has had a huge year so far–winning awards for Middle of Nowhere and being invited to join the Academy. That doesn’t even touch upon DuVernay’s increasingly prolific...
This summer I have had the privilege with working with three amazing young Barnard students — Jo Chiang, Lili Safron and Caroline Moore — who have been helping me find the movies that we...
Lucy Mulloy’s feature debut (she previously directed the short documentary This Morning) is Una Noche. The film centers on Raul (Dariel Arrechaga) who is desperate to leave Havana to go and...
How I Live Now, based on the novel by Meg Rosoff, stars Saoirse Ronan as Daisy, who is sent to live with her family in the English countryside. She falls for the boy next door just as World War III...
Anais Barbeau-Lavalette’s Inch’Allah follows Chloe (Evelyne Brochu) a young Canadian obstetrician working in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Chloe is face to face with...
Check out Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in the trailer for the upcoming 3rd season of Homeland. New episodes of Showtime’s acclaimed drama begin on September 29th at 9:00pm.
Judi Dench’s upcoming Philomena focuses on a woman looking for her son. Forced to give up her child, after becoming pregnant at a young age, Philomena spends the next 50 years looking for...
Mother of George, written by Darci Picoult, was a Sundance hit with massive praise for Danai Gurira’s standout performance. It’s gorgeous cinematography took home the top award. Gurira...
Winnie Mandela, which premiered two years ago at TIFF, finally has a release date and a trailer. Starring Jennifer Hudson, the film follows Mandela through her upbringing, the beginnings of...
Nicole Holofcener’s latest Enough Said will premiere at this year’s Toronto Film Festival before hitting theaters. Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Eva, a divorced, single parent and...
I have to say that this looks really good to me. I just wonder how it will play in the new Princess Catherine world we live in. But I think people are still fascinated with Diana, and...
Celebrating its North American Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival is Gloria starring Paulina Garcia. Garcia plays Gloria, a middle-aged divorcee, who is trying to embrace her single status...
We’ve been reporting a lot about Diablo Cody’s directorial debut in the last couple weeks–first about the film’s initial October release alongside Kimberly Peirce’s...
Hannah Fidell’s A Teacher was a favorite at SXSW where Fidell won the Emergent Narrative Women Director Award at the festival. A new trailer for Fidell’s taut and unflinching film,...
Romola Garai, star of The Hour, is taking a stand against U.K.’s “Lads” Mags. In the video below, Garai perfectly explains the importance of eradicating these harmful images...
This is what we have to deal with for the next month here in NYC. I hope we make it. It is just awful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgAjzlwClBw
Sheryl Swoopes is one of the greatest women’s basketball players to have ever graced the court. Those early seasons after she had her son and she was playing on the Houston Comets when...
Screening at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival is Mary, Queen of Scots about the tragic monarch who lost her head. French actress Camille Rutherford plays the young queen in the...
I saw After Tiller when it premiered at Sundance. It is a film that needs to be seen and is so relevant to our times and the continued assaults on women’s reproductive freedom....
Amber Tamblyn and David Cross have released a PSA about the recent attacks on women’s reproductive rights and health. Entitled “Gynotician,” the video follows a woman seeking...
Check out Mod Carousel’s (a Seattle based boylesque troupe) reinvention of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”. The troupe rewrote the lyrics, re-recorded the song and redid...
A new trailer debuted at Comic-Con for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire during the panel for the film. Per usual, the new trailer is intense and compelling. Based on the second novel in the series,...
Out of Comic-Con is the first footage from the anticipated Veronica Mars movie. In March, creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter fund requesting $2 million to make a film version of the critically...
I remember watching Clueless for the first time when I was in 5th grade. It was immediately my favorite movie because I wanted all of Cher’s clothes, her electronic wardrobe and thought Paul...
Why is a man always saving...
For the first time, PBS’ American Masters series is profiling a sports figure and we are glad that they chose Billie Jean King. The documentary focuses on King’s career as a tennis...
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