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Black Stuntwomen Are Ready To Fight — Will Hollywood Let Them?

Hollywood Wanted Olivia De Havilland To Play An Ingenue Forever. So She Sued ...

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Across The Universe Is A Cult Classic — So Why Doesn’t Julie ...

Netflix’s Latest Movie Gives Jamie Foxx Crazy Superpowers — But T...

Sometimes, usually after a couple Marvel movies (and a glass of wine or two), I find myself wondering what kind of superhero I’d be. Spider-man’s my fa

The Troubling Tale of Baby Peggy, Hollywood’s First Child Star

At the age of 5, Diana Serra Cary, better known as child superstar Baby Peggy, was a self-made multimillionaire, the star of nearly 150 shorts and three fe

How The Director Of Expecting Amy Got Amy Schumer (& Bey...

It’s not everyday that Amy Schumer offers you a job by sliding into your DMs. Yet that’s exactly how Alexander Hammer found himself directing Expecting

Take It From Winona Ryder: In A World Of Mel Gibsons, Be A Keanu ...

Over the weekend, Winona Ryder gave a revealing interview to the UK-based Sunday Times, addressing her experiences as a woman working in Hollywood. Specifi

The Oscars Have Found A Frustrating New Way To Remain So White

Update: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced on Monday that the 93rd Oscars will be held on April 25, 2021. The eligibility deadline

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Beanie Feldstein Talks Caitlin Moran & How To Build A Girl

Warning: This interview contains spoilers for How To Build A Girl, available on July 3rd On the day Beanie Feldstein filmed her first-ever sex scene, How T

We’re Going To Let Our Kids Down & We’re Going To Mes...

“I’m such a bad mom.” Five words we tell ourselves, veiled in the feeling that we’re just not doing it right. The truth is, with the bar of mot

Refinery29 Presents: Below The Line — Meet The Hollywood...

If you’ve ever sat all the way through to the end credit scene of a Marvel movie (often called a stinger scene), you’ve probably noticed that there are

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Center Stage Is Still The Best Goddamn Ballet Movie Of O...

According to a recent study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, film criticism is a field overwhelmingly dominated by (surprise, surprise) whit

What Outlander Star Caitriona Balfe Is Watching (& Growi...

On Outlander, Caitriona Balfe’s character Claire has a passion for botany, using herbal remedies in order to heal the sick. To be fair, there aren

How Women In Hollywood Are Dealing With Their Sets Being Shut Down

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30 Years Later, Pretty Woman Is So Much More Than A Guil...

According to a recent study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, film criticism is a field overwhelmingly dominated by (surprise, surprise) white men

Netflix’s Lost Girls Is An Anti-True Crime Movie

Warning: This interview contains spoilers for Lost Girls. There are no dead girls in Liz Garbus’ Lost Girls — only missing women. Based on Robert

These Women Are Completely Redesigning The Hollywood Work Day

When Marielle Heller started filming her Oscar-nominated film Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy, she was thrilled to shoot in New York Ci

Shania Twain: Advice To My 26-Year-Old Self

Shania Twain is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actress, and the voice behind cult hits like “Man! I Feel Like A Woman” and “That Don’t Impress

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This 13-Minute Netflix Movie May Change How You Think About Inter...

Sitara: Let Girls Dream begins with a burst of colour and joy. Fourteen-year-old Pari and her little sister, Mehr, are building paper airplanes, launching

Crossroads Hinted At Britney Spears’ Future Proble...

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Haley Bennett’s Powerful Swallow Is Already Making...

Warning: This story contains spoilers for Swallow, in theatres March 6. This interview was originally published during the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Ever

Zora Howard Wrote A Black Love Story Without Violence. Here’...

Premature joins a growing canon of modern Black love stories that sets itself apart from the rom-coms and social justice narratives of the past

How Birds Of Prey Director Cathy Yan Created A Girly Gli...

In one soon-to-be classic scene from Birds of Prey, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) enters a Gotham police department in full glamourpuss regalia: a broad bla

Don’t Be Fooled — Parasite’s Big Win Didn’t Fix The Oscars

Parasite made history on Sunday when it became the first non-English language film to take home Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It was the kind of mome

Meet The 32-Year-Old Woman Who Co-Wrote The Best War Movie Of The...

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Joaquin Phoenix Chokes Up Talking About Brother River In Emotiona...

Joaquin Phoenix capped off an awards season sweep with his first-ever Oscar win at the 92nd Academy Awards. And true to form, he did so with a speech equal

The Biggest Surprise Of The 2020 Oscars Was Eminem & His Heavily ...

Sorry, Queen — the Academy Awards just took the surprise performance concept to a whole new level when Eminem took the Oscars stage. Sorry, let̵

Parasite Swept The 2020 Oscars, Taking Home Best Picture...

Update: Parasite took home an amazing — and beyond deserved — four Academy Awards at the Oscars. It is the first non-English language film to win Be