On Tuesday the CEO and founder of Alamo Drafthouse, Tim League, confirmed in a public statement that he had re-employed Devin Faraci, the former Editor-in-Chief of Alamo’s film site Birth.Movies.Death, who left the company after accusations of sexual assault.
The extended trailer for Fifty Shades Freed, the final film in the sleek sexual punishment trilogy, is out and delving into new, exciting erotic territory: the marriage of a wealthy, monogamous couple.
Out of the 21 films in the competition this year at the Venice Film Festival only one of those movies is directed by a woman (Vivian Qu for Angels Wear White.) But festival director Alberto Barbera wants you to know that it’s not really his fault.
Selena Gomez and Elle Fanning are the latest crop of young woman performers to be labeled “Woody Allen’s Muse.” Congrats.
Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Logan Lucky, which stars Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as West Virginian brothers who attempt to pull off an elaborate heist during the Coca-Cola 600 car race, has always been reported as being written by first-time screenwriter Rebecca Blunt. The problem is nobody knows who she really…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or you are literally Aaron Sorkin, you might know that women have a hard time getting their movies made. In the top 250 movies of 2016 only 7% of directors and 13% of writers were women, which is strange when you remember that women accounted for (shocker!) 52% of movie-going…
The Syrian Civil War was roughly a year old by the time Dalya Zeno and her mother, Rudayna Aksh, fled Aleppo for Los Angeles in 2012. Arriving in Southern California as American citizens, Dalya and Rudayna struggled to adjust to life after Syria in a nation that, they believed, could be unwelcoming toward Muslims.
Flashback Film Friends is a series in which a Jezebel staffer watches a movie she or he has seen a million times, with a staffer who has never seen it once. Then they discuss—just like friends.
Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Snatch (a Sword from a Stone) flopped this weekend. It appears that “Knights of the Round Table, but lads” is not a pitch that sells tickets.
Not one to overlook opportunity, director Darren Aronofsky unveiled the first poster for his upcoming film, Mother!, on—but of course—Mother’s Day. Featuring a waxen-faced, vestal Jennifer Lawrence, the image grinds against the maudlin conventions of the day. Take a quick look, and you’ll see why.
F. Gary Gray, the man behind the 4/20 classic Friday, is reportedly the first black director with a billion-dollar film, based on the international success of none other than Fate of the Furious.
The paranoia that accompanied Y2K may now seem like a quaint relic of a recent vintage, but at the time, the threat was unforeseen and the fear genuine. The technological society in which Americans are currently immersed to the point of codependence was merely a glimmer in a future we could not yet imagine; AOL, for…
Jonathan Demme—the versatile director behind such films as Silence of the Lambs, Something Wild, and the Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense— died Wednesday morning in New York, following a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was 73.
Back in 1998, a big piece of gossip in the celebrity weeklies was that Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts were feuding on the set of their dramedy Stepmom. But, as Sarandon explained on Twitter Sunday night, that particular rumor was manufactured by her very own “PR person.” She and Roberts liked each other “very much,”…
In 2014, the state of Missouri passed a 72-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions. The waiting period, which makes no exceptions for rape or incest victims, is one of the most restrictive in the nation and is particularly difficult for poor and working women to navigate. There is only one abortion clinic in…
The Boss Baby, an animated children’s movie starring the voice of The Actor Man Alec Baldwin as a baby who defies all odds, social norms, and expectations for humans who have not yet learned how to go pee pee in the potty by becoming a boss, is scheduled to be released in theaters across this weary country on Friday,…
In what is apparently the first instance of a big-budget superhero movie featuring an LGBTQ protagonist, a character in the new Power Rangers movie briefly hints that she might be sexually attracted to women.
Annette is a musical about “a stand-up comedian whose opera singer wife is deceased,” according to IMDB, which depicts “the rise and fall of an intense love story” (Variety). Despite the fact that we are full-up on TV and movies about white male stand-up comedians and their “plight,” this one is intriguing: Rihanna…
Last night I saw Logan, Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine film, and the first of the series to be rated R. It’s filled with the kind of violence you’d expect from a movie about an angry, alcoholic superhero with razor-sharp claws buried beneath his knuckles and almost nothing to live for—heads are chopped off, throats…
Every year, The Hollywood Reporter does humanity a great service by interviewing actual Oscar voters—anonymously, as some are almost certainly names we’d recognize—about what they really thought about the Oscar nominees, and who they held their noses to vote for. And they’re back! With a vengeance.
