#Video
Trailer Watch: Violet & Daisy
Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are a pair of teen assassins who are hired to kill crime figures in New York City. When the pair gets a new job targeting a mysterious man (James...
Trailer Watch: Girl Most Likely – Written by Michelle Morgan and Co-Directed by Shari Springer Berman
This is Kristen Wiig’s first leading role onscreen since Bridesmaids. I hope people are not expecting Bridesmaids 2 because this looks a bit more intense. Formerly titled Imogene,...
Lauren Season 2 Premieres on WIGS
Lauren, starring Jennifer Beals and Troian Bellisario, begins it’s second season on WIGS today with its first four episodes. Lauren continues the story of a soldier who is raped and is...
Trailer Watch: Crazy Kind of Love – Directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness, Written by Karen McCullah Lutz
Crazy Kind of Love, directed by Sarah Siegel-Magness and written by Karen McCullah Lutz, focuses on a broken family helmed by Augusta (Virginia Madsen). However their relationships to one another...
Trailer Watch: Byzantium – Starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan
Check out the trailer for Byzantium (written by Moira Buffini) starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan as mysterious women who move to a coastal down where deadly occurrences begin to happen. The...
Trailer Watch: Second Trailer for The East – Co-Written by and Starring Brit Marling
As the trailers for The East continue to roll out and with its recent outing at SXSW, the buzz for Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s tense thriller is growing. The film stars Marling as Sarah,...
Trailer Watch: Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes – Starring Willa Holland
Teenagers of many generations have connected to Judy Blume’s iconic novels that focus on their interior lives. It’s actually pretty surprising that none of Blume’s work hasn’t...
Trailer Watch: Shadow Dancer – Starring Andrea Riseborough
Shadow Dancer stars Andrea Riseborough as a woman who is arrested in a failed bombing attempt in London. She’s a member of a family of IRA fighters circa the 1990s. After threats...
Happy Friday: Watch Tilda Swinton’s Ebertfest 2013 Dance Party
The marvelous and flawless Tilda Swinton alongside the late Roger Ebert’s wife, Chaz led a dance party to Barry White at this year’s Ebertfest. It’ll make you want to go out...
Watch This: Ron Charles “Explains” Women’s Fiction
Watch The Washington Post’s book critic, Ron Charles hilariously satirize the idea of “women’s fiction.” He brings light to the sexism embedded within criticism and the truly...
Trailer Watch: See Girl Run – Starring Robin Tunney
Emmie (Robin Tunney) is questioning the choices she’s made–about her husband, her life and her past relationships. She decides to go back to her hometown to see if her high school love...
New Trailer for The Bling Ring – Directed by Sofia Coppola
As we’ve recently reported, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring will be opening up Un Certain Regard at Cannes. On the heels of that announcement here comes another trailer for the film....
Trailer Watch: Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes – Written and Directed by Francesca Gregorini
Francesca Gregorini’s Emanuel and The Truth About Fishes made its debut at Sundance. The film follows Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario) who lives with her father (Alfred Molina) and stepmother (Frances...
Watch The Top 3 WNBA Picks Talk Sports and Sexuality
While we have made great progress on gay marriage, we stil live in a world where there is not a single professional out male athlete that is currently playing a major sport. They are there,...
Trailer Watch: Caroline and Jackie
Caroline and Jackie is about the relationships between two sisters. On a celebratory birthday trip, Caroline (Marguerite Moreau) visits Jackie (Bitsie Tulloch) and her boyfriend. What is at first a...
Trailer Watch: The English Teacher – Co-Written by Stacy Chariton
The English Teacher, co-written by Stacy Chariton and starring Julianne Moore follows an English teacher in a small town who gets involved with a former student. Here’s a description from the...
The First Catching Fire Trailer
Last night the trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire debuted during the MTV Movie Awards. In the film which is based on the second book in the series, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and...
Bette Midler Takes Broadway as Infamous Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers
The iconic Bette Midler is hitting Broadway again for the first time in 40 years playing another iconic woman, Hollywood agent Sue Mengers. In John Logan’s I’ll Eat You Last, Midler...
Trailer Watch: Farah Goes Bang – Directed by Meera Menon, written by Meera Menon and Laura Goode
Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival later this month is Meera Menon’s Farah Goes Bang. Here’s the synopsis: Farah hits the road with her buddies to stump for John Kerry in the 2004...
Watch This: Ellen Announces Finding Dory
A couple days ago, Ellen announced the long awaited sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo. The sequel, Finding Dory, will focus heavily on Ellen’s character Dory from the first film. As...
Watch This: Full Trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie
After months of teaser trailers, the full trailer for Kimberly Peirce’s Carrie is here. Starring Chloe Grace Moretz as the iconic title character, Peirce’s reinvisioning of the film is...
New Trailer: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones – Written by I. Marlene King and Jessica Postigo
Based on the YA series by Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones follows Clary Fray (Lilly Collins), your typical teenage girl until she finds out she’s not so typical. After...
Watch This: Gwyneth Paltrow Saving Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 3
In a new TV spot for the upcoming Iron Man 3, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) does the saving. The clip shows Potts in a full suit of armor swooping in to save her beau Tony Stark aka Iron Man (Robert...
New Trailer Watch: Midnight’s Children – Directed by Deepa Mehta
Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, adapted from Salman Rushdie’s novel, follows two children Saleem and Shiva, who are born just at the moment where India regains its freedom from...
Trailer Watch: Venus and Serena – Directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major
Check out the trailer for Venus and Serena, directed by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major. The documentary gives us a look into the lives of bad-ass, iconic tennis powerhouses Venus and Serena Williams...
Watch This: Amy Poehler Interviews Irma Kalish – Pioneer Comedy Writer
For her super smart web series for girls, Smart Girls at the Party, Amy Poehler interviews Irma Kalish, a pioneer female comedy writer, who wrote for iconic shows such as Good Times, All in the...
The Golden Girls on Marriage Equality
We here at Women and Hollywood want to give a shout out in support of marriage equality and we believe that this clip from The Golden Girls appropriately addresses this amazing week at the...
Trailer Watch: Kick-Ass 2 – Starring Chloe Grace Moretz
Check out the international trailer for Kick-Ass 2 which hits theaters on August 16. The trailer’s focus is mainly on Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) dealing with the after effects of the first...
Pussy Riot Band Members Speak Out on 60 Minutes
60 Minutes did a segment on Pussy Riot, the now infamous feminist punk band from Russia who were sent to prison for their demonstration against Vladimir Putin. Two of the members are still serving...
Exclusive Clip from WIGS’ Blue – Starring Julia Stiles
As we previously reported, WIGS recently announced their new seasons for popular shows Lauren and Blue as well as Paloma, written and directed by Julia Stiles. Blue stars Stiles as a single mother...
Watch This: Awkward Season 3 – Created by Lauren Iungerich
Awkward is hands down one of the best teen shows airing right now. Created by Lauren Iungerich, the show follows Jenna (Ashley Rickards), an unpopular girl, who gains sudden notoriety after an...
Watch This: Veep Season 2 Trailer
We here at Women and Hollywood are huge fans of the hilarious Julia Louis-Dreyfus and are very excited for the return of Veep, a smart, prickly and very funny look at politics through the eyes of the...
Trailer Watch: Nurse Jackie – Season Five
Here’s the trailer for season five of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie starring the terrific Edie Falco. This season will be the first without showrunners and creators Liz Brixius and Nancy Wallem...
Trailer Watch: Top of the Lake – a Mini-Series Directed by Jane Campion
It’s always important to note when something by Jane Campion is about to be released. Next week starts a seven part mini series Top of the Lake written and directed by Campion....
Watch This: Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes Vs Women: Damsel in Distress
Watch Anita Sarkeesian’s great takedown of gendered tropes in video games in her new series, Tropes Vs. Women, a Kickstarter funded video series dedicated to analyzing the plot devices and...
Trailer Watch: Stories We Tell – Directed by Sarah Polley
Actress and now very talented director, Sarah Polley has a new documentary that premiered last fall in Toronto. Stories We Tell received a good deal of critical praise as it made its way around...
Watch This: The Bling Ring Teaser Trailer – Directed by Sofia Coppola
The teaser trailer for Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring has finally dropped. The film, based on true events, follows a group of teens obsesses by celebrity and the power it has in our culture who...
Trailer Watch: Frances Ha – Co-Written by and Starring Greta Gerwig
Check out the trailer for Frances Ha starring (and co-written by) Greta Gerwig and directed by Noah Baumbach. The film is about a young woman living in New York who is an aspiring...
Trailer Watch: What Maisie Knew Co-Written by Nancy Doyne
Based on the acclaimed Henry James novella, What Maisie Knew focuses on a young girl, Maisie (Onata Aprile) who is caught in between the bitter divorce of her parents (Julianne Moore and Steve...
Trailer Watch: Eden – Directed by Megan Griffiths
Eden, directed by Megan Griffiths, is based on the true-story of Chong Kim in the 90s, who was kidnapped at 18 and held as a sex slave for two years. It shows how human trafficking happens not only...
Trailer Watch: New Trailer for The Host – Starring Saoirse Ronan
Based on Stephenie Meyer’s non-Twilight novel, The Host follows Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) whose body is taken over by invading aliens (led by Diane Kruger). Instead of succumbing to the alien...
Trailer Watch: Hunky Dory – Starring Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver stars in Hunky Dory as a Viv, a high school drama teacher in 1970s South Wales. Viv wants to engage her bored teenage students and decides to put on an extremely unique musical that...
Trailer Watch: Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey – Directed by Ramona S. Diaz
Ramona S. Diaz's documentary Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey follows the story of Arnel Pineda, a Filipino man who through being discovered on YouTube became the new lead...
Trailer Watch: Ginger & Rosa – Directed by Sally Potter
Here's the latest trailer of Ginger & Rosa from Sally Potter. It premiered in Toronto last September and has played the festival circuit last year to good reviews. The film focuses on the...
Watch This: Nina Simone Singing “To Be Free”
Legacy Records, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is celebrating Nina Simone as their February 2013 Artist of the Month in honor of Black History Month and Simone's 80th...
Trailer Watch: The Sapphires
In 1968, a group of four talented Australian Aboriginal girls (Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapsell) start an all girl group called The Sapphires and travel to Vietnam with...
Trailer Watch: Two Mothers – Directed by Anne Fontaine
Anne Fontaine's Two Mothers premiered at Sundance to mixed reviews. The film follows the friendship of two mothers (Robin Wright and Naomi Watts) who both sleep with each other's extremely...
Ava DuVernay Directs Short Film ‘The Door’ for Miu Miu
Ava DuVernay has directed a new short film for fashion label, Miu Miu. The film is the fifth in their ‘The Women's Tales’ series. Starring Gabrielle Union, as a woman whose marriage...
Trailer Watch: The Brass Teapot – Directed by Ramaa Mosley
The Brass Teapot, directed by Ramaa Mosley, centers around a down on their luck couple (Juno Temple and Michael Angarano) who are struggling to make it until they find a magical teapot at a local...
Our Favorite Super Bowl Ad Starring Amy Poehler
One of Women and Hollywood's favorite ladies, Amy Poehler, starred in a Best Buy ad during the Super Bowl as an extremely difficult customer, automatically winning our favorite Super Bowl ad of...
Surprise! Go Daddy’s Sexist Super Bowl Ad is the Worst Ever
While the Super Bowl is bringing us Beyonce at halftime, another thing it annually brings are the worst of the worst in terms of sexist ads. And GoDaddy.com without fail brings the cream of the crop...