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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists congratulate Kathryn Bigelow for winning the 2010 Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The Hurt Locker. Read more

TV’s still very very bad for women writers; when violence = commitment; a movie about women as people and Read more

The movie doesn’t exactly care about Beth’s career ambitions—why she’s good at what she does or why she likes doing it. Suffice it to say, as she does more than once, that she’s looking for a man she can love more tan her job. Read more>>

Having been absent from the screen as an actor since “Signs,” Mel Gibson unleashes his anger in this violent revenge-fueled thriller, playing a grief-stricken veteran homicide detective whose 24 year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is gunned down in his arms on the doorstep of his Boston home. Read more

Tommy Craven (Mel Gibson) is mad. You know because he furrows his brow, stares into space, slams bad guys through walls, and shoots at oncoming cars without even thinking of ducking. Read more>>

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The destruction of humanity is not a woman’s fault, dammit; the new trend of behind-every-great-man movies; Precious is not a documentary… Read more

Weighed down by clichés and that terrible dialogue (not to mention a tinkly-piano score that soon becomes intrusive), Extraordinary Measures proceeds from one event to another, in an order that goes something like this: setback-triumph-setback-triumph-setback-triumph. Read more>>

If this reminds you of a TV-disease-of-the-week tearjerker, that’s because it’s the first theatrical release from CBS Films, a division of the broadcast network that seems to be testing whether audiences will pay for cable-caliber melodramas at the box-office. Read more