Like Bollywood, Hong Kong’s film industry seems to be outdistancing Hollywood with opportunities for women directors and producers. With reference to the upcoming Hong Kong Film Awards, Katey Rich looks at Hong Kong’s ‘fempower.’ Read more

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Women screenwriters are oh so cute! And so are 50-foot-tall Reese Witherspoons! Read more

Women have, of course, been plus-ones for eons, but being able to see plus-one syndrome played out by an ambitious man–one who seems honest about his ordeal–is quite the catch. And the art world trappings are captivating, to boot. Read more>>.

Get ready to wear those tinted plastic glasses all summer because Hollywood’s on a 3-D binge with at least a dozen new movies utilizing the visual technology that allows various objects to be projected right into the audience. Read more

The essential question about Matthew Crouch’s The Cross - The Arthur Blessitt Story, is whether the film can cross over. This documentary about a guy who’s spent 40 years traipsing around the world with a cross on his back has a built in audience, but can Crouch and his Blessitt zealot subject captivate an audience that’s not already singing in their choir? Read more>>.

An old Victorian house in Southington, Connecticut, which once was a funeral parlor, inspired this horror tale which is loosely based on incidents reported in the 1980s. Read more

The tag line of My Neighbor My Killer is: When peace comes, how do you make it right again? Anne Aghion’s brilliant documentary shows the struggle of surviving Tutsi women and guilty Hutu men to turn the bloodsoaked turf of genocide-striken Rwanda into common ground on which they can live in peace. Read more>>

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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists mourns the tragic passing of Natasha Richardson. Those of us who had the honor of meeting the elegant and always lovely Ms. Richardson were graced to be in her presence. She was kind, smart, warm, humorous and generous, and a brilliantly gifted and accomplished artist. We are among the millions of people who will miss her, and will keep memory of her alive through our ongoing apprecation of her work.