I spend a great deal of time sitting in theatres, evaluating the reality of people's performances. Watching a great actor, or star-sometimes they are ...
The New York Times | Posted 05.14.2012
"THE plague of our times," a character declares in "Hysteria," Tanya Wexler's new romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian Eng...
The Daily Beast | Posted 05.09.2012
Created by Elizabeth Meriwether (No Strings Attached), New Girl revolves around a socially awkward teacher, Jess (Zooey Deschanel), who-after discover...
BuzzFeed | Posted 05.08.2012
Last week YouTube announced a new channel called Wigs that will feature short scripted dramas about strong female characters -played by stars like Jen...
Forbes Woman | Posted 05.08.2012
Did you notice the other night on Mad Men that the men were whining? The 60s were rough on everybody, except maybe the hippies who were all stoned. Bu...
BuzzFeed | Posted 05.07.2012
In an interview, cartoonist Alison Bechdel reveals she also watches "Sex and the City" on loop, and discusses how difficult it can be to write about h...
Forbes Woman | Posted 05.03.2012
For the first time, YouTube is about to launch an entertainment network with real programming and real stars. The WIGS channel is being debuted today ...
Michelle Persad | Posted 04.18.2012
Dame Maggie Smith is not leaving "Downton Abbey," the show's producers announced yesterday. Everyone breathe. Although rumors were flying surround...
Business Insider | Posted 04.18.2012
In the opening scene of HBO's new show "Girls," Hannah, a 23-year-old college grad living in New York City, flips out when her parents tell her she's ...
Salon | Posted 04.16.2012
It shouldn't be surprising that Jemima Kirke, the scene-stealing actress from Lena Dunham's indie hit "Tiny Furniture," has gone on to become one of t...
TresSugar | Posted 04.13.2012
Today Claire Danes turns 33! While the birthday girl is all grown up these days as the star of Homeland and wife to hot actor Hugh Dancy, we will alwa...
Good | Posted 04.13.2012
Lena Dunham's much-hyped new HBO show Girls, which follows four newly graduated young women as they navigate New York City-and the recession-in privil...
The New York Times | Posted 04.12.2012
Julia Louis-Dreyfus spent much of her childhood in and around Washington, D.C. But when she returned last September to shoot HBO's new comedy "Veep," ...
Salon | Posted 04.12.2012
Every morning as I walk my daughters to school, I pass a billboard advertising a new sitcom on ABC. Alongside a close-up of a smug young woman danglin...
Salon | Posted 04.09.2012
The second season of HBO's "Game of Thrones," which premiered last Sunday, is based on a novel -- the second in an ongoing saga -- called "A Clash of ...
The Daily Beast | Posted 04.05.2012
Simply finding a movie with a single interesting female role can feel like a major discovery. But stumbling upon a film with four vibrant, fresh, funn...
Renee DuShane | Posted 05.29.2012
If you ask me, falling in love with someone should be seen as a leap of faith rather than a sign of being dependent. Maybe she does go a little weak in the knees, but Bella Swan is far from a weak female character.
Jezebel | Posted 03.16.2012
As an unabashed Bruce Springsteen fan, I've always loved the nuance he brings to his characters. Though he's sometimes portrayed as a heartland carica...
Katie Stroh | Posted 05.09.2012
Women's friendships can be some the most abiding and intimate relationships they will ever forge. So where are all the nuanced, honest depictions of female friendships on TV?
Zeynep Lokmanoglu | Posted 01.02.2012
Whether it is "on the rag," "that time of the month," or "the curse," it seems as if euphemisms have represented and misrepresented menstruation forev...
Stella Duffy | Posted 11.28.2011
I'm not sure when the 'sympathetic character' became a necessity for modern authors. Certainly the Brontës didn't feel constantly pressured to write sympathetic characters, or they'd never have got away with Mr. Rochester
MovieFone | Posted 10.12.2011
In 'The Help,' Southern society girl Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard) is as polished and polite as possible, but that pretty smile hides a mean, r...
The New Yorker | Posted 05.18.2012