Women & Hollywood

It's a good thing that its Passover tomorrow night and Sunday (for us Jews) because it is a depressing weekend for women at the box offi...

Karina Longworth of Spot Blog (one of the very few interesting female film bloggers) participated in a critics discussion (how come I didn...

Meryl Streep was honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center this week. Lincoln Center Sings the Praises of Meryl Streep (IndieWire) V-D...

I've been a Hillary girl all along. I have no problem telling anyone at anytime that I am proudly voting for the girl. Then again, I d...

A couple of weeks ago I saw Lara Flynn Boyle on Law & Order and she was virtually unrecognizable. I was very disturbed by her puffy fa...

Couldn't resist Spain's new cabinet: 9 women, 8 men. New defense minister reviewing the troops 7 months pregnant.

Lifetime is trying to get younger. That is, they are trying to get younger women to watch the network. They announced their slate for the ...

This is the state of women's comedies. Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson are starring in the film shooting right now about two best friends...

I read this description in one of the trades of a new movie that starts shooting this month: Justin Bartha (National Treasure) will star opp...

I used to looove reading the Sunday Arts & Leisure section. But the last couple of years the section has been boring me and most of the...

Opening This Weekend Persepolis - English language version, co-directed by Marjane Satrapi - I loved the French version so I'm sure it...

One of the highest ranking women in theatre, Mara Manus who cleaned up the Public Theatre from a financial mess, will step down from her pos...

Most women who work in the film business in any capacity absolutely hate the term "chick flick." They all wish the term had never...

What would you do if you watched your mother wither away and suffer from breast and ovarian cancer and then discovered that you had the gene...

Getting back up to speed after a week away and wanted to remind folks that tomorrow night at 10pm on HBO is the premiere of Lisa Jackson exc...

Or the folks at Paramount Vantage are. Check out this poster for Burstein's Sundance award winning documentary American Teen coming out...

Opening This Weekend Stop-Loss Directed by Kimberly Peirce. It's not about women, but it's a great sophmore effort from Peirce. Ch...

It's a common conversation in Hollywood that women don't make genre movies, you know, the kind that actually make money where things...

La Misma Luna broke the record for a Spanish language film opening. The Patricia Riggen film scored $2.8m last weekend with a 10,414 per s...

Two days ago I posted some comments about an LA Times piece that talked about the influence that John Hughes has had on today's comedie...

I've been critical of the insider Hollywood show Shootout with Peter Bart (editor of Variety) and Peter Guber (uber-producer) as being ...

Haven't you noticed that Laura Linney is always good in everything? I really can't think of any missteps in any of her performances...

The amazing Nicole Hollander creator and author of the comic strip Sylvia gives us her personal take of the new film Miss Pettigrew Lives fo...

I am still on my anti-Judd Apatow rant. I still can't quite believe how a schlub from Long Island became one of the most powerful men i...

Way back in October Maxim, the misogynist magazine that masks as a "lad" magazine called Sarah Jessica Parker the "unsexiest...

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas have always been fascinating figures I know very little about. I barely had any sense of what they looke...

I've been noticing lots of stealth ads around New York City for the new Judd Apatow produced anti-romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marsh...

Opening This Week- La Misma Luna La Misma Luna was, suffice it to say, an unexpected pleasure. While I do like my share of foreign films, I...

Geena Davis is coming back to TV. She will star in Exit 19 a new drama on CBS. Davis will portray a homicide detective in Manhattan while ...

I gotta admit that this woman has guts. Most people who have been hit with the backlash for comments made about women's place in Hollyw...