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Reel Women: ‘The Sessions’ Has Some Naked Problems
Reel Women: ‘The Sessions’ Has Some Naked Problems
Reel Women: ‘The Sessions’ Has Some Naked Problems
'The Sessions' -- out now in limited release -- is based on the true story of poet, journalist and cripple Marc O'Brien, a man confined to an iron lung for most of his life who seeks out the help of a sex surrogate to experience the act for the first time. But for all its talk of body comfort and its cavalier attitude toward nudity, 'The Sessions' spends a lot of time obscuring Marc's body while g
Reel Women: ‘Smashed’
Reel Women: ‘Smashed’
Reel Women: ‘Smashed’
In the new indie drama 'Smashed,' Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays an alcoholic school teacher trying to get sober while struggling with marriage to her similarly booze-ridden husband. The film, out now in limited release, is a heart-wrenching portrait of addiction and salvation.
Reel Women: Beautiful Actresses Can Be Funny Too
Reel Women: Beautiful Actresses Can Be Funny Too
Reel Women: Beautiful Actresses Can Be Funny Too
Clearly, Deadline reporter Nikki Finke never received the memo that both humor and beauty are subjective, as she blogged this week that pretty actresses are incapable of being funny because they have no experience with "emotional pain and humiliation." We, um, politely disagree.
Reel Women: ‘Nobody Walks’
Reel Women: ‘Nobody Walks’
Reel Women: ‘Nobody Walks’
Impulse and senses collide in a tale of emotional propriety and nebulous boundaries in 'Nobody Walks,' the new film from director Ry Russo-Young. Co-written by Lena Dunham, the film follows Martine (Olivia Thirlby), a young artist who comes to stay with a liberal family and casually shakes their microcosm listlessly as if it were a snowglobe placed there for her amusement.
Reel Women: ‘Bachelorette’
Reel Women: ‘Bachelorette’
Reel Women: ‘Bachelorette’
Based on the play of the same name, writer and director Leslye Headland's film 'Bachelorette' tells the story of three messy-headed bridesmaids on the day leading up to the wedding of a friend from high school they used to call "Pigface." But beneath all the superficial cattiness, drugs, and booze there lies a harsh reality for each of these women.
Reel Women: ‘Ruby Sparks’ and the Deconstruction of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Reel Women: ‘Ruby Sparks’ and the Deconstruction of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Reel Women: ‘Ruby Sparks’ and the Deconstruction of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Writer Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano) has a severe case of writer's block until he dreams of his perfect girl and literally writes her into existence in 'Ruby Sparks,' the new film from 'Little Miss Sunshine' team Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Feris. Ruby, played by Zoe Kazan -- who also wrote the script -- is the epitome of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, but in this meta tale of romantic expectations,
Reel Women: ‘The Queen of Versailles’
Reel Women: ‘The Queen of Versailles’
Reel Women: ‘The Queen of Versailles’
Jackie and David Siegel were worth $400 million before the stock market dropped in 2008. David had built the world's largest time share empire, which he was using with his wife Jackie to build the largest house in America, modeled after the palace of Versailles in France -- a project which the couple must now face abandoning in the wake of their mounting financial crisis. Deep in debt and with sev
Reel Women: The Divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Media Opportunism
Reel Women: The Divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Media Opportunism
Reel Women: The Divorce of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and Media Opportunism
This week it was announced that Katie Holmes is divorcing Tom Cruise. The usual tabloid suspects jumped on it so quickly you'd wonder if there's some sort of press room offering free brunch and mimosas aboard that train wreck. But there was something a little too opportunistic happening -- posts about Cruise's career and the possible effects of this divorce on box office sales of 'The Master,' and
Reel Women: ‘Lola Versus’ the Film Critics
Reel Women: ‘Lola Versus’ the Film Critics
Reel Women: ‘Lola Versus’ the Film Critics
What do you do when your female-centric indie film tanks at the box office? Blame "older male critics," of course, and the filmmakers of 'Lola Versus' did just that. In this week's Reel Women we take a look at how this perceived misogyny is just as dangerous as the real thing.

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