Better roles for child actresses than adult actresses? Jennifer Lawrence graduates to 'adult' roles by playing the token girlfriend/manic pixie dream girl.

Yes, this started as deleted material from my Silver Linings Playbook essay from Saturday. I don't want to get into another 'roles...

Guest Essay: Dana Shaffer on how Brave fails at feminism.

Friend and colleague  Dana Shaffer wrote this terrific piece back when Brave first arrived in theaters.  Since I had already had my say on ...

Why the box office failure of Fun Size is actually good news.

Call it reason 3,214 why movies aren't dead.  As you all know, the Nickelodeon comedy Fun Size debuted in theaters last weekend with nar...

A chance to shatter a glass ceiling: Fox should hire Jane Goldman to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past.

I'm going to make this as brief as I can.  As most of you know, the industry was somewhat stunned this afternoon when it was announced t...

Review: Brave (2012) is Pixar's most impersonal and least consequential film and a more troubling failure than Cars 2.

Brave 2012 93 minutes rated PG by Scott Mendelson Beset by production troubles and changing schedules, Brave enters theaters as a fable with...

Without comment or emphasis: Why The Avengers may end up this summer's most progressively-feminist blockbuster.

I wasn't going to write about The Avengers again for awhile (other than box office) both because I didn't have much more to offer a...

Review: Mirror Mirror (2012) is lifeless and drab, a poor-man's Ella Enchanted.

Mirror Mirror 2012 106 minutes rated PG by Scott Mendelson The good news is that Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror is nowhere near as obnoxi...