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Gather your hooped skirts and pretty silk slippers because the first trailer for Little Women is finally here, and you'll want to look your very best,

by Anne Cohen

TV Shows
Succession Vs Billions: Two Super Fans Debate T...
This week for Refinery29’s “Fandom Fridays,” editor Morgan Baila and writer Elena Nicolaou argue which show is better: Succession or Billions. Baila
by Morgan Baila

Movies
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Will Bring Back All Yo...
In 1999, the seminal film The Mummy bestowed great wisdom on an entire generation: “You must not read from the book.” It’s sound advice. Bad things
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Shia LaBeouf Is Barely Recognisable As His Dad In New Biopic Trailer
You probably are already vaguely aware of Honey Boy, even if the title doesn't quite ring a bell. Written by Shia LaBeouf, the loose biopic focuses on the
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Melissa McCarthy & Tiffany Haddish’s Mob Film Is More Violent Tha...
Our first hint that The Kitchen is more Widows than Ocean’s 8 comes fairly early on in the action, when we watch our three protagonists learn how to
by Anne Cohen

Movie Trailers
A First Look At The "Black Bonnie & Clyde" Movie We All Need
Film history is littered with famous two-name duos: Bonnie and Clyde, Thelma and Louise, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. But we've never seen any
by Anne Cohen

Entertainment
Luce Is A Mesmerising, Provocative Thriller With More Qu...
The thing about Octavia Spencer is that you want to trust her. She’s built a career on strong roles that endear her to the audience — we root for her,
by Anne Cohen

Entertainment
Margot Robbie's Lack Of Dialogue In Once Upon A Time In....
This piece contains some spoilers for Once Upon A Time In...Hollywood. In 1968, Brussels-based Cine Revue Magazine interviewed actress Sharon Tate about
by Anne Cohen

Movie Trailers
Cynthia Erivo Is Ready For Her Oscar In The Harriet Tubman Biopic...
We're used to seeing abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman as an older woman, her legacy as one of the most important figures in American history cemented by
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Valley Of The Dolls Is A Sexy Piece Of Gossip With A Dar...
According to a recent study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, film criticism is a field overwhelmingly dominated by (surprise, surprise) white
by Anne Cohen

TV Shows
Netflix’s Unbelievable Goes Behind-The-Scenes Of A Real-...
In 2008, an 18-year-old girl reported being raped at knife-point in her apartment in Lynnwood, Washington by a man who had bound her with her own
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Chloë Grace Moretz Remembers Filming A Period Scene In Front Of "...
Systemic gender inequality is Hollywood’s worst-kept secret. But like the most insidious sexist tropes, it persists, plaguing generations of women
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Stripped Of The Hype, (500) Days Of Summer Is Just Anoth...
In 2010, I took the plunge and got blunt bangs. I’d been thinking about it for months, debating whether or not I could pull them off (I could not), and
by Anne Cohen

Movies
A Brief Guide To Big Little Lies Season 2 Director Andre...
When I first heard that Andrea Arnold had been hired to direct the second season of Big Little Lies, I was elated. The British director has three Cannes
by Anne Cohen

Movies
The Lion King Could Use A Lot More Hot Simba Energy
Like so many in my age group, I can trace back my earliest sexual awakening to a cartoon lion voiced by Matthew Broderick. Watching Simba emerge from the
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Awkwafina's New Film The Farewell Is A Love Letter ...
The Farewell is an incredibly specific movie. Most of the action takes place in Changchun, an industrial city of nearly eight million people in Julin, a
by Anne Cohen

Movies
The Oscars Are In Crisis — We Asked New Academy Members What Chan...
Hollywood is at a crossroads. On the one hand, it’s an exciting time for movies. Voices long silenced are finally starting to be heard, giving way to
by Anne Cohen

Movies
How Awkwafina Shed Her Comic Persona For The Farewell
Awkwafina has built a reputation as one of the funniest women in Hollywood. As the breakout performer in Ocean’s 8 and Crazy Rich Asians, her trademark
by Anne Cohen

Movies
So, What Really Happens At The End Of Midsommar?
Warning: This story contains major spoilers for Midsommar. All hail the May Queen! Midsommar, Ari Aster’s sunny Swedish folk festival break-up movie,
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Which Of Your Internet Boyfriends Should Play Elvis In A New Biopic?
In the wake of hits like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, the race is on to find the lucky actor who will swing his hips as Elvis Presley in Moulin Rouge
by Anne Cohen

Movies
How Ophelia Writer Semi Chellas Got Hamlet To Stop Mansp...
Of all of William Shakespeare’s plays, Hamlet has received the most on-screen adaptations. There have been over 50 film versions produced since the
by Anne Cohen

Movie Reviews
Yesterday Is A Charming, But Empty Look At A World Witho...
Do you remember the first time you heard The Beatles? I don’t. For those of us born after the Fab Four’s heyday, their music — and its cultural
by Anne Cohen

Movie Reviews
Midsommar Makes Haunting Horror Out Of Sunlight & Flower...
In many ways, Ari Aster’s debut feature, Hereditary, and his upcoming follow-up, Midsommar, are binary opposites. Hereditary examined the fears that
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Did Nicholas Sparks Kill The Notebook? Or, Was It Always...
I vividly remember the first time I saw The Notebook, in 2004. I was 14 and on summer vacation with my dad and stepmom in Naples, FL. We went to the tiny
by Anne Cohen

Interviews
Midsommar Star Florence Pugh Swears Her Cult-y Horror Br...
No one wails like Florence Pugh. The star of Ari Aster’s Midsommar expresses her character’s emotional trauma with guttural, primal cries that vibrate
by Anne Cohen

Movie Reviews
Wild Rose Shows The Messy, Unvarnished Side Of What It T...
Of all the many, many portrayals of female musicians in movies over the last year, Wild Rose is the most honest. Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is no
by Anne Cohen

Movies
Get Ready To See A Lot More Of Wild Rose Star Jessie Buc...
From the second we first see Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) emerge from her prison cell in her white cowboy boots and fringed white leather jacket, her
by Anne Cohen