#Video
Watch: New ‘Wonder Woman’ Footage Offers Peek of the Superheroine We’ve Been Waiting For
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....
Trailer Watch: Sarah Jessica Parker Reconnects With an Italian Ex in ‘All Roads Lead To Rome’
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,...
Trailer Watch: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Take On Wall St. in Jodie Foster’s ‘Money Monster’
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...
Trailer Watch: Elaine May’s PBS Portrait of Director Mike Nichols
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...
Trailer Watch: Michelle Dockery Leaves ‘Downton Abbey,’ Joins Sexy Thriller ‘Good Behavior’
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."...
Trailer Watch: In Netflix’s Six-Decades-Spanning ‘The Crown,’ Being Queen Isn’t As Easy As It Looks
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...
Trailer Watch: Toni Braxton Sells Pain, Not Sex in Lifetime’s ‘Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart’
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...
Watch: A Celebration of the Top-Grossing Women-Directed Films of 2015
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...
Trailer Watch: Artist and Survivor Amy Everson Creates Concealing/Empowering Costumes in “Felt”
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,...
Trailer Watch: Blue is the Warmest Color
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...
Must Watch: Geena Davis Takes a Shot for Gender Equality
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...
Trailer Watch: Downton Abbey – Season 4
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...
Trailer Watch: Concussion – Directed by Stacie Passon
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...
Trailer Watch: The Selfish Giant – Directed by Clio Barnard
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...
Trailer Watch: Grace of Monaco – Starring Nicole Kidman
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...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for August: Osage County
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...
TIFF Trailer Watch: Under the Skin – Starring Scarlett Johansson
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...
Trailer Watch: Ass Backwards – Written by and Starring Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael
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...
Trailer Watch: Gravity – Starring Sandra Bullock
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...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie
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...
Trailer Watch: Palo Alto – Directed by Gia Coppola
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...
Trailer Watch: Divergent – Starring Shailene Woodley
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...
Trailer Watch: The Book Thief
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...
Trailer Watch: Plush – Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
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...
Trailer Watch: Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters
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...
Watch This: Say Yes – Directed by Ava DuVernay
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...
There is Still Time to Submit Your Film to the Athena Film Festival
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...
Trailer Watch: Una Noche – Written and Directed by Lucy Mulloy
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...
Trailer Watch: How I Live Now – Co-Written by Penelope Skinner
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...
Trailer Watch: Inch’Allah – Directed and Written by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
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...
Trailer Watch: Homeland – Season 3
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.
Trailer Watch: Philomena – Starring Judi Dench
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...
Trailer Watch: Mother of George – Written by Darci Picoult
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...
Trailer Watch: Winnie Mandela
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...
Trailer Watch: Enough Said – Directed by Nicole Holofcener
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...
Trailer Watch: Full Trailer – Diana
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...
TIFF Trailer Watch: Gloria
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...
Trailer Watch: Paradise – Written and Directed by Diablo Cody
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...
Trailer Watch: A Teacher – Written and Directed by Hannah Fidell
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 Takes on Sexist Magazines
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...
Kristin Chenoweth Gives it to Anthony Weiner
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
Nine for IX: Swoopes Directed by Hannah Storm Premieres July 30
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...
TIFF Trailer Watch: Mary, Queen of Scots
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...
New Trailer Watch: After Tiller Directed by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson
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 Do a Frighteningly Funny PSA About Women’s Health
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...
Video of the Day: Mod Carousel’s Gender Swapping Version of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines
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...
Comic-Con: The New Trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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,...
Comic-Con: Veronica Mars Trailer
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...
Celebrate the 18th Anniversary of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless
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...
One Man Trailer Perfectly Illustrates What is Wrong With Hollywood
Why is a man always saving...
Trailer Watch: Billie Jean King
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...