Movies
6.26.16 ‘It’s not like someone is on set and calling me “sugar tits”‘
These are the stories I want to tell and will push my view of women forward: Allow them to be crazy and shout to the world that we’re women but we’re also having these crazy existential crises you all are having now.
Read More6.19.16 ‘Finding Dory’ does have a bad guy. But it’s not who you think.
Finding Dory isn’t about evil humans who stole her away for some horrible research experiment, precipitating her short-term memory loss. But it does have a bad guy.
Read More4.08.16 20 Years in NYC, Pt. 5: ‘Keep your eyes on the spinning top’
What I think I’ve discovered in the last 20-odd years (some rather odd years, at that) is that planning is a good thing, but not the only thing. Sometimes you just have to get the top spinning — and watch where it goes all on its own.
Read More2.29.16 Oscars fallout: A Win Win for Spotlight director Tom McCarthy, who knows the power of giving two Fs
He couldn’t take those words out. And the MPAA said fine, you keep both uses of those words in and you’re getting an R. And he would not back down — it just wasn’t going to happen.
Read More2.10.16 Writer’s Cut: ‘Narnia is still behind the wardrobe’
I’m a homebird. I’m the homebird who fantasizes about an RV in Patagonia, but really I just want to be in Dublin.
Read More1.23.16 ‘They were completely blindsided by the reaction’
Boys will play with girl toys; girls will play with boy toys. And if you have a whole lineup of characters from a favorite movie, leaving one out makes the entire package suck. You want characters who come with enough variation to make the play interesting.
Read More12.17.15 ‘The Seuss use was certainly on point’
Here’s a sentence you don’t get to use much: Keira Knightley was my warm up act today.
Read More12.2.15 Writer’s Cut: ‘I call it Going Meryl on them’
One of the questions I get asked a lot as an entertainment reporter is “who was your most interesting interview?” Invariably the answer is going to be disappointing: People who ask that question want me to tell them how fabulous Brad Pitt is in person (never met him) or what a fun time I had…
Read More10.17.15 ‘What do you think is so bad about ‘girl’?
This is a request for reevaluation of the use of the word “girl” for human beings who are clearly “women.”
Read More9.25.15 ‘I am afraid I must step aside’
Eddie Redmayne remains a baffling Oscar superstar, and what it’s like to have a lead-lined pillow whomp you upside the head on a Friday afternoon.
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