“I hated the word celebrity. Even writing the word ‘actress’ was really difficult for me.”
Questions about whether women can be funny aren’t constructive, they’re outdated and redundant–because we’re going to be hearing the same answer over and over again no matter how many times they come up.
Why Are People Still Asking Whether Women Can Be Funny? (x)
Like a mix of Veronica Mars and Nora Charles, Angourie Rice plays Holly as a smart, resourceful teenager with the good heart the movie needs. She and Gosling are so good together, they could have carried the movie entirely on their own and I still would have happily watched. But then we wouldn’t have gotten Crowe, who hasn’t been this enjoyable on screen in a long time…and I’m not sure he’s ever been this funny before.
Lesley Coffin praises The Nice Guys: “the first great comedy of summer” (x)
If you really got to what was the overriding motivation that that woman that you found out at the end, it was always rape because for some reason men saw that as…this incredibly dramatic thing. … ‘Well that’s easy! I can just pluck that one out of the sky and apply it to her.’
Jodie Foster takes Hollywood to task for its laziness in writing female characters (x)
And of course, the continued coverage of Allen’s work proves Farrow’s point.
Contributor Zachary Evans interviews women on what this new era of Star Wars means to them.
When we talk about Latinx Representation we should ask ourselves, which Latinx? It’s interesting that, despite Jane the Virgin being about a Venezuelan family (played entirely by Puerto Rican actresses) and the Salazars on Fear the Walking Dead being Salvadorian (played by a Panamanian actor and a Swedish actress!), both stories are similar in that they are generically about “immigration.” But there’s nothing to make them specifically Venezuelan or specifically Salvadorian. Because to Hollywood, and to the average viewer, there’s no difference. Latinx are simply generic, interchangeable brownish people from that ever-nebulous part of the world that’s “South of the Border.” And don’t they all pretty much have the same story? Don’t they?