Rodrigo Garcia’s latest film, Mother and Child, is that rarest of rarities these days: a serious film about motherhood that does not resort to clichés and stereotypes but explores what is for many women the central experience of their lives without either denigrating it or dismissing it. Read the rest of this entry »

Botox, breast implants, and dye jobs: suddenly not what Hollywood wants? Read the rest of this entry »

Even lady action heroes get the blues… Read the rest of this entry »

Hit Girl hysteria, where are the women at Cannes, the politics of hair, and Read the rest of this entry »

It’s our culture of misogyny that allows Star Wars fans to be likened to female victims of serial killers, and Read the rest of this entry »

Jennifer Aniston may not want your help; lady filmmakers need to shut up and count their blessings; won’t someone think of the boys?… Read the rest of this entry »

For the last two decades, Julianne Moore has been a powerful presence in indie films, bringing a cool rationality and a fiery passion — sometimes in the same film — to a range of unusual roles in stories that don’t adhere to Hollywood paradigms. Her latest is Chloe, an adaptation of the French film Nathalie… by Canadian director Atom Egoyan and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson. In this erotic psychological thriller, Moore plays a Toronto doctor who suspects her husband (Liam Neeson) is having an affair, and so she hires a call girl (Amanda Seyfriend) to test his loyalty. The results are not what anyone expected. Read the rest of this entry »

Win an Oscar, lose your husband? Who let a girl do serious journalism? and Read the rest of this entry »

The Liz Lemoning of American pop culture; women aren’t interesting, according to Hollywood, just bitter and complainy and Read the rest of this entry »

Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win doesn’t really count, women go to the movies more than men, and Read the rest of this entry »