THE WEEK IN WOMEN: AMY Doc, MINIONS, Comic Con and AMPAS – Brandy McDonnell comments
Asif Kapadia’s compelling new documentary “Amy” truly takes our entire culture to task, revealing inherent sexism that women face in
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MINIONS, TANGERINE, 10,000 KM and Other July 10 Openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin
Minions delivers delightful summer silliness as three of the crowd-pleasing yellow pill-like hoard seek to serve a prima evil-doer, Scarlett
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Anne Thompson’s THE $11 BILLION YEAR (Exclusive Excerpt)
After reporting on everything movies for 25 years, Hollywood pundit Anne Thompson, an AWFJ member, has written her first book. It’s fascinating. We preview it here, with an exclusive excerpt from Chapter Seven: Women, Politics and Zero Dark Thirty. After reading AWFJ’s exclusive excerpt, you can purchase The $11 Billion Year in its entirety from HarperCollins Publishers or book sellers.
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Winners of the 2013 AWFJ EDA Awards!
CATE BLANCHETT wins Best Actress, LUPITA NYONG’O takes Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and NICOLE HOLOFCENER scores Best Female Director for Enough Said, while SANDRA BULLOCK gets the Kick Ass Award For Best Female Action Star, and CAMERON DIAZ is named the year’s Actress Most In Need of a New Agent. Check out the entire roster!
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – The Week In Women, March 26, 2010 – MaryAnn Johanson
Win an Oscar, lose your husband? Who let a girl do serious journalism? and
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – The Week In Women, January 15, 2010 – MaryAnn Johanson
Maybe it’s men who “just aren’t funny”; sexy Star Wars lack imagination; how not to depict girl geeks and
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – The Week In Women, December 11, 2009 – MaryAnn Johanson
Everyone knows women directors are disasters at the box office; skewering the dumb-blond stereotype; is it too soon to celebrate
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – The Week In Women, September 5, 2009 – MaryAnn Johanson
What if a gal doesn’t want movies as her mistress? Also: Hollywood rapes women, a boob-ilicious tale, and how to
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – “All About Steve” – Susan Granger reviews
Who would have guessed that teaming Sandra Bullock, who scored in “The Proposal,” and Bradley Cooper, so terrific in “The
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