Entertainment Weekly has announced its latest Entertainer of the Year, and you probably won't be particularly surprised at their pick: Sandra Bullock, who'll be appearing on the magazine's cover. This is her second time taking home the title. Read… 11/26/13 4:00pm 11/26/13 4:00pm

In case you missed it: Vulture compiled a list of the 100 Most Valuable Movie Stars of 2013. The methodology is solid, and there are plenty of ladies earning box office cash. But it sucks that there's only ONE woman of color —Zoe Saldana — on the list. Asian actors? Zero. Read… 10/30/13 1:50pm 10/30/13 1:50pm

Earlier this week, SNL's Kenan Thompson told TV Guide that the lack of black female comedians on the SNL cast is because they're "not ready." A lot of people had Thoughts about/excuses for this, many of which were almost contagiously dumb. Not this. Read… 10/18/13 5:45pm 10/18/13 5:45pm

All you movie nerds who used to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit and say condescendingly to your friends, “Well, you know, Jessica Rabbit is based on Veronica Lake,” need to check your movie privilege because you are completely wrong. Or half-wrong. Veronica Lake, known best during the early stage of her career for… Read… 9/21/13 2:00pm 9/21/13 2:00pm

Amani Starnes is a working actress who happens to be racially ambiguous. Hollywood is basically the Baskin-Robbins of racism (so! many! flavors!). Mix the two well and you get a forehead slapping concoction that would be hilarious if it weren't tragically true. You get the new web series "The United Colors of Amani." Read… 9/20/13 6:30pm 9/20/13 6:30pm

Exciting news: As Open Culture reports, there are now vintage issues of Business Screen, The Hollywood Reporter, Photoplay, and Variety online. Flipping through a June 1943 issue of Photoplay, we found "What Should I Do?", an advice column written by Bette Davis. Read… 8/28/13 5:05pm 8/28/13 5:05pm

According to the cast list for Smurfs 2, there are the 20 male Smurfs and one lady Smurf. On the men's side there's Papa, Grouchy, Clumsy, Vanity, Narrator, Brainy, Handy, Gutsy, Hefty, Panicky, Farmer, Greedy, Party Planner, Jokey, Smooth, Baker, Passive-Aggressive, Clueless, Social, and Crazy. On the women's side,… Read… 8/12/13 8:30pm 8/12/13 8:30pm

Despite the fact that women only directed fifteen-percent of the shows on TV last season — and were also cursed with debilitating cases of non-dickus-havus — they still received half of the Emmy nods for directing. Way to overcome, ladies.
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Here's some striking screen stills from classic Hollywood films re-imagined by an artist and photographer in Senegal. I love Thelma and Louise, and I definitely want to see this reboot. Read… 8/02/13 9:30am 8/02/13 9:30am

Aline Brosh McKenna is onboard to write the film adaptation of Rochester, an unreleased graphic novel that's a modern retelling of Jane Eyre. Fox 2000 acquired the rights in a deal worth the "low seven figures". Yowza, that's a whole lot of orphan porridge! Read… 6/26/13 9:50am 6/26/13 9:50am

It's called Susan Cooper, and since it's from the funny feminist* co-creator of Freaks and Geeks and director of Bridesmaids, it'll probably be hilarious.
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About 30 aspiring actresses who responded to a casting call got the shit fooled out of them when it turned out that they were auditioning for a part that didn't actually exist. But wait! It gets fool-ier: during the fake audition, the women were asked to do unladylike things like wear blackface, impersonate Adolph… Read… 6/19/13 6:05pm 6/19/13 6:05pm

Michelle Rodriguez doesn't hold anything back — and now she's using her trademarked honesty (uh, is it trademarked? It could be) to tackle the problem with writers and women in Hollywood. Read… 5/22/13 1:50pm 5/22/13 1:50pm

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… Read… 5/19/13 6:00pm 5/19/13 6:00pm

Judy Blume, iconic writer/patron saint to confused tweens that she is, needs no introduction. There's a pretty solid chance that you, dear reader, felt less alone in the world after reading her books, whether you were obsessed with getting your period, grappling with recently divorced parents or considering whether to … Read… 5/14/13 5:00pm 5/14/13 5:00pm

Before the days of Parks and Recreation, most of us had little-to-no idea who Retta was (how deprived we all were!) Even when she signed on to do the show, there was little promise of her breaking out and becoming recognizable. She was only a background actor until one day Amy Poehler decided to engage her in a little … Read… 5/02/13 5:00pm 5/02/13 5:00pm