Women & Hollywood

Opening Today - Elizabeth: The Golden Age Cate Blanchett is one of my favorite actresses, and I firmly believe she is one of the best of her...

Women Continue as the Topic of Conversation in Hollywood In an industry that pays scant attention to women, this week seems to be girls week...

Warner Production President Says He Is Still Committed to Women Anne Thompson reports in today's Variety that Jeff Robinov, who was acc...

Film Review: Golda's Balcony Golda Meir was always one of my great heroes; she saved a nice Jewish girl from Long Island from believing ...

Do Women Matter to Hollywood? The shit hit the fan this weekend when Nikki Finke posted on her Deadline Hollywood blog that Warner Brothers ...

David Denby - A Fine Romance My New Yorker 's are usually the last magazine in the pile (aside from the NY Times magazine), so I am ve...

Quick Sneak Elizabeth: The Golden Age Cate Blanchett returns to the screen as Elizabeth I in this sequel to her 1998 breakout film, Elizabet...

Review - Lake of Fire Abortion is one of the hottest political issues in our culture, with both sides very emotional and very committed to ...

Early Sneak Things We Lost in the Fire - this film marks the English language directing debut of the extremely talented Danish director Susa...

In Praise of Julie Taymor Last week I took issue with NY Magazine putting four white guys on the cover heralding the re-ascendency of the A...

Film of the week Feminist producer Roz Heller's latest film Trade , a cautionary tale of human trafficking, opens today. For more infor...

What the F#@k? NY Magazine puts four male directors on the cover with the headline "The New York Wave, The Return of the New York Aute...

TV Tonight Series Premieres- Shonda Rhimes continues her domination of ABC with the launch of Private Practice . Buzz is that the first sho...

Preview Review - The Bionic Woman Tomorrow night is the premiere of one of the few new fall shows with a female lead. I'm a big fan of...

Box Office Roundup Milla Jovovich topped the weekend box office at 24 million with her zombie romp Resident Evil: Extinction ; number two wa...

Robin Swicord on The Jane Austen Book Club: Robin Swicord is the writer and director of the new film The Jane Austen Book Club . She talks ...

Jane Austen Book Club The Jane Austen Book Club is a movie I wanted to like really badly. The problem with wanting something so badly is t...

TV This Weekend Season premiere of Cold Case (CBS). Those of you with Tivo don't forget to add an extra hour on your CBS programs due ...

Jane Austen Book Club Each week this site will recommend a film by or about women that is opening (hopefully there will be one opening each ...

Where are the women? (written by Mercedes) "I know it's boring to gripe and moan about hard it is for women artists, but reading th...

From Black PR Wire: Female Directors Struggle in a “Man’s World” "Out of the 13,400 members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) o...

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