I can remember being 13 years old, sitting on the floor of my living room, acting out a scene with two Barbies and a couple of Strawberry Shortcake dolls. (They were all friends!) It was right at a time when the other girls in my class were starting to talk about boys and sex, and wearing high-heels and frosted lip…
If you were a child in America in the past so many years, you probably read or at least can acknowledge the existence of Norton Juster's great children's classic The Phantom Tollbooth. Though Juster may have written the book, it was equipped with equally important illustrations by Juster's longtime friend Jules…
Stop everything you're doing (besides, what are you doing? It's Saturday) and watch this.
The documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines is on PBS tonight and streaming on their website as well. Gloria Steinem shows up less than four minutes in, so it's got someone's stamp of approval. Also: "hosted by Stanley Tucci." !!!
Ryan Gosling’s smirking, sun-dappled face will appear twice over the course of the Cannes Film Festival: in the erotically violent Nicolas Winding Refn film Only God Forgives, and then briefly in a documentary about the ruthless business behind movie-making, Seduced & Abandoned, where he shares a few charming stories…
Over the weekend, Beyoncé's "documentary," Life Is But a Dream, aired on HBO. It wasn't really a documentary, though, it was part video diary, part infomercial, part carefully staged interview intended to give viewers the sense that the singer was revealing all, when in fact, she revealed very little.
Rumors surfaced this summer that noted hipster greaseball photographer Uncle Terry would be making a feature-length documentary film about Lady Gaga, after he followed her peeing, doing yoga, bathing in glitter and what have you on tour for 10 months last year in order to produce 350 pages of glossy hedonism to hawk at …
Thanks to a web of Royal diaries, letters, interviews with historians and biographers, and some old, dried pieces of Royal feces (for learning, you guys!), the public may now be able to have a better idea of just what a nightmare it would have been to be Queen Victoria's daughter.
New York City wants Ken Burns to give up unreleased footage from The Central Park Five, his most recent documentary about five men who were imprisoned but eventually exonerated for allegedly raping a woman in Central Park, and it's not because officials think they deserve an advance screening; the city hopes it can…
Diana Diroy's ten minute film, What's A Girl Doing Here? goes behind the wheel with female cab drivers in New York City. There are 46,000 taxis in the city, and a mere 170 of them are driven by women. One driver, Elena Tenchikova, divulges that she once had a little girl in her cab who asked her mother, "What's a…
On Thursday, MTV featured a documentary about an 18-year-old artist and undocumented immigrant named Inocente Izucar, whose father brought her and her brother — "basically kidnapped," she explains — to the U.S. when they were very young. Izucar's childhood struggles with being a homeless, undocumented immigrant…
The trailer for Allison de Fren's documentary
Here's a trailer for the soon-to-be-released Bully, a documentary that focuses on the horrifying harassment that some children face at school and what some are doing to stop it. The preview on its own is a whirlwind of hope and dispair— we can only imagine how many box of tissues it will take to get through the…
Tonight a new documentary premieres on Oprah Winfrey's struggling network, OWN, that actually looks like it might be good. It's called I Am Jazz: A Family in Transition, and it tells the story of Jazz, an 11-year-old transgender girl. Jazz, seen above meeting her idol Chaz Bono, is wonderfully confident and simply…
Miss Representation is a documentary from writer/director (and former first lady of San Francisco) Jennifer Siebel Newsom which "explores women's under-representation in positions of power and influence and challenges the limited and often disparaging portrayal of women in the media." Newsom tapped some famous faces…
One filmmaker set out to make a documentary about people who collect Lars and the Real Girl -style adult dolls. By the end, he owned 12 and had become a convert.
"Every minute, almost two million people to log on to look at porn - with 70% of that traffic taking place during the 9-5 workday." Current TV takes a look at how pornography drives technical innovation.
Meet Mitch McCabe, a filmmaker who dives deep into the allure of the anti-aging industry in Youth Knows No Pain. She attempts to answer the question: why are we so obsessed with turning back the clock?
Whether you regard the DIY crafting revolution as fun, empowering, radical, frivolous, an act of reclamation, an important response to consumerism, harmful to feminism
A mild-mannered Aussie farmer's disastrous attempt at brothel-owning is chronicled in a new documentary. Spoiler alert: hilarity, tragedy ensue.
Even if you're not "into" makeup, fascinating documentary The Powder and the Glory, which premiered on PBS on Monday, is 90 minutes seriously well spent.
Eleven Minutes follows Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll as he creates his first "real" fashion show in a film that separates the true fashion-lovers from the Tim Gunn and Heidi fans.
Spike Lee may be making another film about Katrina. Lee directed the HBO miniseries When The Levees Broke about the hurricane — and the aftermath in New Orleans — but he says he's interested in revisiting the area and focusing on other parts of the Gulf Coast that were affected. Lee says his new film's focus would be…
