March 2016
Bette Davis: Cinematic Medusa
By EntertainerThere’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...Visual Pleasure and Voodoo Demographics: A Reflection on Women and Film (Updated)
By EntertainerEditor'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...Everybody Wants Some!!
By EntertainerAll 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...Video Interview: Brie Larson on "Room"
By EntertainerBrie 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...WonderCon 2016: "Bordertown" & "iZombie"
By EntertainerWhen 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...The Depths of What We Cannot Know: On "The Double Life of Véronique"
By EntertainerI 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...Fade to White: "Thelma and Louise" Turns 25
By Entertainer“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...Patty Duke: 1946-2016
By EntertainerLike 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...A Friend of Mine: Tom Hiddleston on "I Saw the Light"
By EntertainerLike 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 ...Women Writers Week 2016: Table of Contents
By EntertainerThis 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...
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