This year’s Oscar nominations may not represent a deliberate backlash. But for those of us who noticed and welcomed the diversity of recent years, it is disheartening.
In honoring many mid-life, mid-career actresses, this year's Golden Globes made great strides. Maybe next year, we might see a few women directors?
In 2010, I gave myself permission to go to the movies often. Sadly, very often there was nothing I wanted to see.
Think summer movies are all comic-book fantasies and gross bromance? Think again: thanks to women directors and actors, there's a lot more coming up on the big screen. (One example below: Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right.)