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This week, our Wonder Women include some high-powered career women who have trouble with their work-life balance, a couple of New Yorkers with unique personal styles and some young women who find themselves facing dangerous enemies with determination in the face of their fears. Please meet our next group of Wonder Women, numbers 22 through 12:
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SPOTLIGHT, and more SPOTLIGHT. The Alliance of Women Film Journalists’ members honor the fine film that celebrates the achievements of journalism with four EDA Awards. CAROL and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD get some love with two EDAs each. And the other 17 categories are claimed by a wide and surprising range of winners. See the full roster, including the AWFJ’s critical choices for best nudity and actress most in need of a new agent.
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Invite Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) into your home when Mad Max: Fury Road releases on Blu-ray and DVD this week. Cate Blanchett to receive the BFI Fellowship at London Film Festival in October. Anne Hathaway will produce and star in The Shower, a Scifi comedy with a kick ass female lead. Melissa McCarthy is stumping to boost interest in Paul Feig’s not-so-hotly-anticipated all-female Ghostbusters reboot. Read this week’s The Week in Women.
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Summer is when a lot of us hit the highway, so rounding up best road movies is timely fuel for fun. But how does you the road trip genre fare in terms of gender equality? Most frequently the highway has been presented as men’s terrain, with buddy buddy bonding mapped out within thriller, comedy, sci-fi, horror and other story lines. But we’ve found some fabulous women-driven road movies.Let’s compare lists…
Read moreAn Action Opus with a Gentle Core. It’s a good sign when you bump into a couple of people you
Read moreArmy Reserve Capt. Rebecca Murga is a filmmaker on a mission to tell the story of women in the U.S.
Read moreThe white knight. He means well—that trope of all kinds of fiction—what with his quest to rescue the fair maiden
Read moreTo quote the Beyonce song used in one of Pitch Perfect 2’s musical numbers, girls do indeed run the world
Read moreI’ll See You in My Dreams is an upbeat femme-centric dramady about 70-something woman emjoying life. Every Secret Thing is
Read moreAstonishing in a way that makes you feel like you haven’t seen a true action movie in a while, by
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