Women & Hollywood

USA Today has several great stories featuring women's power in film. The first, Hollywood's power women shed light on movies this ...

Indie film director Allison Anders (Gas, Food, Lodging) and her daughter musician Tiffany Anders co-created and co-curate the Don't Knoc...

Seth Rogen on The Daily Show promoting his new stoner action movie Pineapple Express He actually said that kids should drop out of high sch...

Variety is reporting that Meryl Streep is in advanced negotiations to star in the next Nancy Meyers film as a professor caught in a romantic...

A few days before my 12-year-old son left for sleep-away camp, we wanted to do something special so we treated ourselves to a double feature...

Neilsen is a woman who could probably play any part she wants cause she's so tall and gorgeous. But that doesn't interest her. (Cou...

Keke Palmer starred in the the under seen Akeelah and the Bee and now will have her own show on Nickelodeon where she plays a high schooler...

I might be the only one in the universe not to have LOVED Batman . Hollywood wanted and needed a big, big hit, but had Heath Ledger (who wa...

What I liked best about the first Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants was the great relationship between four different and not typically Hol...

The House Next Door brings a Anne Bancroft Film Festival on Turner Classic Movies to my attention and I am psyched. I haven't seen har...

For speaking out about the lack of opportunities for older actresses. I just wish there could be a little more movement towards encompas...

I couldn't believe my eyes when last week at the X-Files (don't see it, it's so bad and homophobic) I saw the preview for Death ...

Aline Brosh McKenna is the hottest female screenwriter having written The Devil Wears Prada adaptation as well as her original screenplay o...

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the launch of the Women & Hollywood Film Club. We had about 30 people in the theatre and about 20 o...

Another dysfunctional family wedding drama starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt and Debra Winger (yeah!) written by Jenny Lumet. Direct...

I know that she's not technically a Hollywood person... This week in Mexico City 25,000 people are attending the International AIDS conf...

Frozen River is an unexpected gem of a movie. I loved it as much as I've loved anything in a long, long time. I first heard about it ...

44 year old Courtney Hunt makes her feature film debut this week with the spectacular Frozen River . The film debuted at the 2008 Sundance ...

I've talked about how all movies about women seem to be relegated to chick flick status no matter what they are about. It's no surp...

North American rights to Kelly Reichardt's "Wendy and Lucy," from this year's Cannes Film Festival, have been acquired by ...

Fresh off the success of her stellar performance as Lady Marchmain in the remake of Brideshead Revisited (I predict a best supporting actres...

I just noticed the list of writers for the Emmy nominated Late Night with Conan O'Brien and the Late Show with David Letterman . Know w...

Karina Longworth of Spout blog actually attends Comic-Con and had a great post this week that people should check out. Even though "gir...

What is it about beautiful, opinionated women that makes all of Hollywood (especially the media) want to scream? I guess I shouldn't b...

I was traveling so I didn't get to comment on the Emmy nominations. I am excited to see many of my favorites on the list, but I also th...

Should have done this a long time ago. For standing up and speaking out about the genocide in Darfur. She's just been in Burma and Thai...

If I was a woman writer in Hollywood I would be up in arms over this story Evolution of a Screenwriter that appeared in last week's Hol...

A Hollywood woman with strong political opinions. Gotta love her. Here are emails answers she gave to The Politico . But when will we see...

Barbara Ann Teer the founder of the National Black Theatre which she ran for 40 years, and one of the strong forces in the black theatre, di...

The geek fest better known as Comic-Con was held this last weekend in San Diego. It used to be that guys and guy films dominated, but no mo...