Women & Hollywood

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is the story of Guinevere Pettigrew (the amazing Frances McDormand), a down on her luck governess who spends...

I loved everything about Girls Rock! I loved that the movie told the story of girls who come together to embrace (or discover) their music...

This should have been a review of an upcoming theatrical release, but sadly that didn't happen. (read some of the insanity here: I Could...

Reese Witherspoon celebrated Women's Month at the UN yesterday and helped launch an international campaign to end violence against women...

The Bird's Eye View Film Festival, which celebrates women filmmakers, launches its fourth festival tomorrow night (March 6) in London. ...

Now that this year's Oscars are over and the critics agree that the ceremony and the awards themselves are out of date (the ratings this...

The NY Times ran a piece on Amy Sherman-Palladino the writer/creator of The Gilmore Girls on her return to TV with The Return of Jezebel ...

There are three semi-wide films vying for the female audience this weekend, and two other limited releases. Penelope and The Other Boleyn ...

Missed this from earlier this week. It's worthy of a full copy and paste (from the First Post) Brit actress saved by outraged Emma Th...

Cate Blanchett is one busy woman. About to give birth to her third child, and running the Sydney Theatre Company with her husband she has a...

I was so excited to see that a film starring Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and Joan Allen was happening. I am a fan of each actress and am rea...

Vivere is another one of those hard to describe films. It takes place on Christmas eve in a dreary town outside Cologne, Germany. Three w...

Update: A fifth film Beyond Belief is opening Friday in NY. This Friday, 4 movies about women are opening. I just have to say how lame brai...

It's not a surprise that Oscar winning screenwriter Diablo Cody is experiencing some serious jealousy now that she reached the pinnacle ...

Tina did a great job hosting Saturday Night Live last weekend. If you missed it check out this link here (from the great feminists at Salon...

Essence magazine hosted a black women in Hollywood luncheon to coincide with the Oscars. Their annual black Hollywood issue with a Hollywo...

Hell, no. Let's not paint too rosy a picture on the nomination of three women in the original screenplay category (but it does say we a...

I watched the Oscars as I watch most things nowadays, using my TIVO. I start late, don't need to watch any of the boring stuff (includi...

I love watching the Independent Spirit Awards because the attendees wear normal clothes and look like they are enjoying themselves rather th...

Since the Oscars are this weekend, the pickings are quite slim at the box office. I got Amy Heckerling's I Could Never be Your Woman f...

Gotta say that this has been a petty lackluster Oscar season (some blame goes to the writers strike) but some of the blame has got to go to ...

Some tidbits I picked up over the week: The great Christine Ebersole will star in a Lifetime pilot Libertyville , written and executive prod...

There has been much conversation about Juno and the reality (or lack of reality) it shows about teenage pregnancy. Many experts on the issu...

For those of you who are familiar with the blog, you know that I am constantly harping on the lack of roles for women in Hollywood. Let...

On vacation I read that Reese Witherspoon will be speaking at UNIFEM's Global Summit for a Better Tomorrow next month to coincide with I...

The Business of Being Born, the new documentary produced by Ricki Lake and directed by Abby Epstein has been playing in limited release in s...