Movies | The Jane Dough

Read of the Day: “At The Movies, The Women Are Gone”

6:00 pm, June 14th | by Colette McIntyre

Linda Holmes, writer and editor of NPR’s pop-culture blog “Monkey See,” came to a frightening realization today: there are barely any movies about women or girls showing right now.

Your Morning Laugh: Kanye Wes

10:00 am, June 14th | by Colette McIntyre

Thanks to an upcoming (predictably braggadocios) album and the most quotable New York Times profile in recent years, Kanye West is once again the Internet’s favorite subject.

The Decline Of Romantic Comedies in 11 Slides

4:30 pm, May 24th | by Meredith Lepore

I blame Katherine Heigl.

Lake Bell Doesn’t Think Being A Woman In Hollywood Is Hard

"Childrens Hospital" photo by Darren Michaels

5:34 pm, May 21st | by Meredith Lepore

I want to believe this, but it is interesting because we are constantly barraged by studies saying the opposite. As the great Nora Ephron once said, “a movie about a woman’s cure for cancer is less interesting than a movie about a man with a hangnail.”

Sorry Katniss, Hollywood Is Still Clearly A Man’s Game

6:04 pm, May 15th | by Meredith Lepore

There were a lot of women giving monologues in bikinis this year.

Reese Witherspoon Made A Great Apology But Is It Too Late For Her Career?

5:15 pm, April 22nd | by Meredith Lepore

She doesn’t walk no line.

EOD Roundup

EOD Roundup: Financial Literacy Won’t Prevent You From Making Poor Choices

6:15 pm, April 12th | by Colette McIntyre

In today’s EOD roundup, while April is Financial Literacy Month, CBS MoneyWatch’s Jill Schlesinger thinks that financial literacy is good in theory but ineffective in practice.