So awesome, universe! The world hasn’t been full enough yet of movies about women who are almost totally obsessed almost exclusively with romance that we cannot use one more of them. Hoorah! Read more>>

Once in a while a film comes along that demonstrates how pig-headedly sexist Hollywood is when it comes to ignoring female perspectives. Read more>>

Finding himself under attack by the Dole Corporation, which had been the subject of his previous investigative documentary entitled Bananas, Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten picked up his camera and began documenting the entire affair. As a result, there’s now a strong, entirely credible and fascinating sequel to Bananas!*. Read more

Playwright, actress, and screenwriter Zoe Kazan has been seen — or not seen — in blink-and-you-missed-them indie films such as “Meek’s Cutoff” and “Happythankyoumoreplease” as well as in small roles in more mainstream fare such as “Revolutionary Road” and “It’s Complicated.” But the 28-year-old Los Angeles native is also the granddaughter of famed director Elia Kazan (“On the Waterfront”) and daughter of scripters Nicholas Kazan (“Reversal of Fortune”) and Robin Swicord (“Memoirs of a Geisha”), which just about makes her Hollywood royalty. Read more

I can’t remember the last time a film rocked my world and blew my mind like this extraordinary documentary does. Read more>>

Olympic weightlifter Cheryl Haworth is coming to the end of her career, although she’s barely out of her teens. In chronicling this meaningful period of transition in her life, Strong! explores her Cheryl’s concerns about how she’ll cope with life as an ex-weightlifting woman. One of the most pressing issues is whether she’ll be able to find and settle into a romance. She’s never thought about a love life, never dated, and the prospect of even dressing to attract attention is daunting. Read more>>.

The married directing duo discuss RUBY SPARKS, their long-awaited follow-up to their runaway hit, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Read more>>

Timing is everything – ask the guy who’s just published an admiring biography of Joe Paterno! Obviously, the filmmakers who made this raunchy, R-rated sci-fi action-comedy several months ago had no idea that a real-life neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, would shoot and kill 17 year-old Trayvon Martin in Stanford, Florida, but that may undoubtedly influence audience reaction as four guys try to protect their community from an alien invasion. Read more

Ends up an ever less slightly ungenerous look at the .01 percent than it might have been absent the 2008 financial crash, because even the uberwealthy get stressed when money gets tight. But this is still a brutal film from many angles. Read more>>

This may be the darkest, the grimmest, the most depressing summer popcorn movie ever. It is not summery. It is not popcorny. The peasants of Gotham are us, we 99 percent huddled in the dark and frantic for a hero we will not find. Read more>>