Film and TV

Beyond his celebrated acting career, Stewart was an advocate for women and children affected by domestic abuse.

The problem with rankings is that no list can measure what a television show meant to you when you needed it most.

Ted Lasso is back, now coaching a U.K. soccer club’s underfunded women’s team. It’s delightful entertainment, but the ostensibly feminist plotline lacks actual feminist punch.

Guy wants girl, girl wants guy way too much, terror ensues: it's a tale as old of time. But the low-budget thriller "Obsession" turns this characterization on its head.

The director's acknowledgment of his failure to protect a 13-year-old actress 50 years ago cannot undo the past. But it offers an example of what genuine accountability can look like.

For years, a confident E. Jean on the outside masked a wounded E. Jean on the inside.

Top-grossing films released in the U.K. were also four times more likely to feature a talking animal as the lead character than a woman 60-plus.

What once would have felt invasive, humiliating or cruel, now barely registers as remarkable. The spectacle escalates, viewers acclimatize, and the cycle repeats itself.

The sequel to the hit movie bemoans the decline of print journalism, but still manages to elevate the power of women.

A recent episode of the dating show ‘Love is Blind’ showed a man complaining that his new partner ‘doesn’t do pilates every day.’ That’s a problem.

Was it perfect? No. Occasionally self-congratulatory? Of course. But there were some genuinely joyous and important moments during this year’s Academy Awards

I’ve always thought Emily Brontë's classic was a horrible book about horrible people. But Emerald Fennell’s movie, with its moments of tenderness, has made it just a little less horrible.

An Oscar-nominated short shows moviemakers are getting more comfortable showing periods in films.

It's not Santa making all that holiday magic..it's (mostly) women.

In the movie version of “Hamnet,” Shakespeare’s wife Agnes, played with wild abandon by the actress Jessie Buckley, looms large with possibility.

Yes, it’s a kids’ movie, but the animated sequel goes deep on social justice themes, including a nod to the maddening tradition of men getting credit for women’s ideas.

Maybe it’s time for a woman to show us what “Frankenstein” is really about.

Pamela is not the sum of her scandals or the product of her movie credits. Her latest ‘rebirth’ is just Pamela, once again, being herself.

For many people, pregnancy announcements are a joyous thing, but when you’re struggling to conceive, they really are not.

It took the writer and director Rachel Feldman years of doors being slammed in her face before she got her movie off the ground, but she’s finally done it: LILLY is out May 9.

Overlooked stories of women are everywhere. Sometimes you just need to find them.

The unassuming story of three working-class Indian women has captured the world’s attention. Here’s why.

Is Hollywood finally catching up with the real world? Maybe, sort of, yes.

Can porn be beautiful and ethical? Erika Lust says yes—unequivocally.

Ellen Jovin is a grammarian whose conversations about language can help us connect in a world that feels broken.