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There’s an infuriating, likely apocryphal, story that, after her first screen test, Bette Davis was described as having less sex appeal than the dopey, gangly, and dramatically unsexy comedic actor Slim Summerville. This may never have...

Editor's Note: Carrie Rickey wrote a fantastic piece for our first Women Writers Week in 2013 and we asked her to update it for 2016. After much consideration, rather than just integrate the updates into the old post, we thought it worth posting the...

All kinds of possibilities open up when a director keeps things loose. Looseness can result in unformed, repetitive, or boring storytelling. Richard Linklater's looseness operates differently. Relationships are the most important thing to him, how...

Brie Larson gave the best performance of 2015 as the mother held captive with her young son in "Room." She won several Best Actress awards for her riveting portrayal: including an Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. The determination and protection of a...

When Mark Hentemann ("Family Guy") was first creating "Bordertown" five years ago, he could not have known that Donald Trump would make his animated comedy timely. "Bordertown" is set in a fictitious town, Mexifornia, in the Southwest desert...

I see a woman. She’s walking in the late afternoon amber-green light of a college town. She makes films. She’s lived in New York and Chicago. She’s traveled all over the world. She wears her hair long. This woman is me. This is the...

“You be sweet to your wife. My husband wasn’t sweet to me, and look how I turned out.”—Thelma Dickerson (Geena Davis) to the cop she just locked inside the trunk of his patrol car at gun pointIn 1991, a frazzled...

Like many in this still-young year, I have mourned the too-soon passing of such incredible talents as David Bowie, Alan Rickman and Garry Shandling.But, for me, Tuesday’s news of the death of Patty Duke at age 69 from sepsis after...

Like many U.S. moviegoers, filmmaker Marc Abraham first saw Tom Hiddleston when the tall and lanky British actor—who had paid his Shakespeare dues on stage and did highbrow made-for-TV fare such as the cop series ...

This week, all of our content on the site is written by women. We'll update this table of contents page with links to new pieces as they go up. EssaysChaz Ebert's Introduction to Women Writers Week"Nora Ephron: An Appreciation" by Nell...