Pow! Blast! Annhilate! The action-packed, bullet-riddled popcorn pictures have officially arrived. Read more

If one were to look at optics alone, the launch to this year‘s movie season heralded great things for the fair sex in film: Sundance 2009 was teeming with work from female directors, writers, producers and plenty of high-profile female talent. Read more

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Jane Campion is back, but so are male-dominated summer blockbusters and limited male perceptions of female sexuality. Read more

Having learned from his mistakes with “The Da Vinci Code,” director Ron Howard has adapted another Dan Brown best-seller into a compelling, fast-paced thriller, starring Tom Hanks as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Read more

Here’s the problem: Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody are not Paul Newman and Robert Redford. They’d like to be and the plot has undertones of “The Sting.” But they aren’t – and it isn’t. That having been said, here’s the gist: Read more

For over a decade, The Celluloid Ceiling study has tracked women’s representation as directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers on the top 250 domestic grossing films. In an effort to assess the larger picture of women’s employment in film, this year we also monitored production designers, production managers/production supervisors, sound designers/supervising sound editors, key grips, and gaffers. Read more

When Farrah Fawcett-Majors blossomed into “Farrah”, the timing was nothing if not ironic. The feminist movement had evolved from burning bras to searing publicly staged intellectual debate; women were donning suits and taking to the workplace en masse, thanks, in part, to the equal opportunity push supporting them. Some of us even stopped setting our hair and let our frizz flags fly. And then there was Charlie’s Angels. Read more

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Read more

Dr. Martha Lauzen’s latest study, “The Celluloid Ceiling II,” augments her annual look at women’s behind-the-scenes representation in Hollywood filmmaking by including women working in production management, production design and sound design, as well those employed as key grips and gaffers. The study finds that: Read more