The Ms. Q&A: What Ursula Macfarlane Learned by Investigating the Harvey...
Macfarlane's latest documentary, "Untouchable," rewinds the clock on the #MeToo movement's viral explosion—exposing the institutions and individuals who enabled Harvey Weinstein's career of sexual...
View ArticleRising Together: Inside the Launch of She TV Media
Individually, we are talented, creative, go-getting and persistent filmmakers—but together, we rise.
View ArticleThe Feminist Lens: Tess Paras Talks #MeToo Movies and Inclusive Casting
"I was reading all this stuff about feminism every day and trying to think about these large questions and I thought, what’s a comedic take on it?"
View ArticleWhat to Watch This Weekend: Feminist Biopics, Feature Films and Finales
"Transparent" comes to a musical end, "Judy" tells a harrowing true story and "Sister Aimee" takes us on an adventure.
View ArticleThe Ms. Q&A: Cynthia Lowen Puts Cyber Harassment in Focus in “Netizens”
"How is this happening? How is this possible that people can send really specific death threats and that there is nothing being done? This project started so I could understand why and how that was...
View ArticleWhat to Watch This Weekend: Tales of Female Fortitude
Picks of the Week is Women and Hollywood's newest resource. W&H writers are often asked for recommendations, so each week they'll spotlight the women-driven and women-made projects—movies, series,...
View ArticleJoy, Despair and Nancy Drew: What to Watch This Weekend
"Nancy Drew" brings familiar stories to the small screen, and "The Sky is Pink" brings a moving and true tale to big ones.
View ArticlePicks of the Week: Catherine the Great, Maleficent the Evil Mistress and...
"Catherine the Great" and "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" take us to fantastical new heights—while "Greener Grass" shows us the subversive horror in our own backyard. "Chez Jolie Coiffure" and "The Two...
View ArticleWakanda, Worldbuilding and Afrofuturism for a World Without Violence
When we re-envision gender-based expectations and imagine and practice into more roles for people of all genders, we begin to shift the fundamental cultural underpinnings of oppression. We were curious...
View ArticlePicks of the Week: Saudi Women Hit the Road and Jenny Slate Faces Her Stage...
On HBO, “Mrs. Fletcher” enlists an all-women directing team to tell the story of a woman’s sexual awakening and "Saudi Women's Driving School' explores how the right to drive has impacted women's...
View ArticleKill Her, Mommy!
The archetypal slashers were often bad, sticky mothers who kept their children freakishly attached.
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Harriet Tubman?
Given that "Harriet" over-performed at the box office its opening weekend—just like the real Harriet Tubman was consistently underestimated at every turn, including winning the popular vote in a...
View ArticleKingmakers and Ex-Cons: What to Watch This Weekend
"The Kingmaker" is a fascinating story of behind-the-scenes power and corruption. “Back to Life" gets really dark—and really funny.
View Article“Personhood” Zooms in on the Chilling Consequences of Anti-Abortion Laws
If you think "The Handmaid’s Tale" is fiction, the chilling new independent documentary film from Jo Ardinger and producer Rosalie Miller about the widespread detention and criminal prosecution of...
View ArticleThe Ms. Q&A: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Wants the World to Let Girls Dream
"You know, people, people often ask me why I choose the subjects that I do—and it's really based on my barometer of anger. If something makes me very angry, that's what I really want to focus on."
View ArticleWhat Pauline Kael Said
In 2019, a study found that women made up only 34 percent of all film reviewers. One century before, in 1919, Pauline Kael, the female movie critic at The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991 who is also...
View ArticleWho Writes the Herstory of Animation?
The launch of Disney+ raised a critical question: To what extent can a multinational conglomerate further social equality when it has so much prejudice in its past? (And why isn't "The Proud Family"...
View ArticleTop 10 Feminist Movies and TV Shows from 2019
2019 was a banner year for awesome films and television shows written, created and fronted by women—it was the year that female-empowerment productions broke records and that women showrunners and...
View ArticleAn Ode to Amy March
I sat in the Cinemark with a very wet face while the two women behind me began dissecting what they'd seen. "That Amy. She is irredeemable! Who would act that way?" I did, and sometimes still do.
View ArticleFive Feminist Moments from the 2020 Golden Globes
Celebrities kicked off the new year with a series of rousing speeches on political topics like climate change, abortion and even escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran—and some women in the...
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