Sentences with phrase «of women in the movie»

Kind of reminds me of those women in that movie from Nigeria someone posted on another article here a little while back.

Other than Graham, who doesn't really have much to do here, there's a surprising lack of women in the movie, which might make this as much of a guys» film as «Old School.»

Her books include From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (1974), Holding My Own in No Man's Land (1997), Frankly My Dear: «Gone with the Wind» Revisited (2009), and Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (2017).

Jessica Chastain criticized what she called «disturbing» representations of women in movies after serving as a jurist at Cannes.

Speaking of which, the exposing of bully / alleged rapist Harvey Weinstein set off a cavalcade of revelations about the ugly treatment of women in the movie business.

Not exact matches

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cWoman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of cwoman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

Kiiroo sells a pair of sex devices, one for men (the $ 250 Onyx) and one for women (the $ 149 Pearl) pair via Bluetooth with the virtual reality headset and syncs to what's happening in the movie or instructional video through a special encoding.

At the time, Smith was only addressing the underrepresentation of women, who comprised less than a third of all speaking characters in the 100 top - grossing movies in the previous year.

Sen. Chuck Grassley argued in an interview published Sunday that getting rid of the estate tax, which applies to about 5,000 largely high - income Americans, would reward those who invest, rather than those who spend their money on «booze or women or movies.»

The fact that both MacLaren and Jenkins off their respective projects is sure to raise the question of whether women filmmakers are welcome in the world of high - stakes, superhero movies.

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B - movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died.

The item got passed around from site to site, and a consensus began to form: The desperate not - quite - It Girl was Gretchen Mol, whose movie roles were starting to dry up; the new target was Blake Lively, beginning to transition from TV to film; and in the center of it all, between two beautiful young women whose careers he held in the palm of his hands, was Harvey Weinstein.

All the statistics about attendees indicate that horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.

The movie mogul's dramatic fall from grace has been widely reported as a flood of lurid allegations about sexual harassment and rape from women in the...

«22 - A particularly graphic illustration of this point was the made - for - TV movie Playing for Time (1980), a film which raised a touchy question: How could Jewish women musicians play far Nazis in the concentration camps?

That's why it's important for casts in movies to feature more realistic women (and people of color, as well as LGBT folks!).

As far as examples of strong women in media, I can only cite the ones that I've appreciated — Buffy and Willow from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Zoe, Inara, and Kaylee from Firefly, and Joan and Peggy from Mad Men (I love Peggy so much), Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games (the books, as I haven't seen the movie).

She speaks and writes about a wide range of topics — from the pro-life movement, to women in the church, to movies and pop culture, to religious philosophy and faith.

Afterwards, as we were sitting on the couch, a little depressed from all the people who die, the women who get treated like trash, and the overall view in the movie that life is cheap, my wife said, «Of all the traditional Christmas movies, «Miracle on 34th Street,» «White Christmas,» or «A Christmas Story «why do you watch this movie?

we are happy here knowing our children grow up, eating big buckets of popcorn in the movies, drinking big sodas and believing a marriage should be between a man and a woman So What -.

Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»

Because of feminism, women make more money than man in the same jobs Because of feminism, it's hard to find a movie with a heroic male lead anymore.

According to the latest industry rumors, Channing Tatum is eying Pratt to co-star in a Ghostbusters movie he is producing that would be a part of the same franchise as Paul Feig's all - women Ghostbuster movie, also in the works.

It seemed to me that some of the best scenes in the movie were those that were deleted from it, particularly a candidly outspoken scene in which Elastigirl, or Mrs. Incredible, defends her role as a «homemaker» against the crassly reasoned criticisms of an obnoxious feminist career woman.

The family, the job, the newspaper, the radio, the movies, the Saturday Evening Post, the Reader's Digest, the lodge, the service club or woman's club, the billboards, the store windows, the politicians, the militarists, the manifold purveyors of culture and entertainment — in fact the total social situation is constantly driving home the message of rival secular faiths.

And I questioned the modesty of women who receive payment to dress and act hot in movies.

But it strains credulity to believe that all sectors of a society as complex as our own» education, politics, the media, advertising, music, scholarship, psychology, medicine, movies, fashion, toy makers, and (unkindest cut of all) many women themselves» are conspiring and colluding against all women everywhere, which means, in many instances, against themselves.

Researchers at the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production rWomen in Television and Film at San Diego State University looked at the top 700 highest - grossing movies of 2014 — which make up almost all of the year's major theatrical releases — to see how many featured women in prominent production rwomen in prominent production roles.

Theo Van Gogh was stabbed in the chest for making a movie about Islam's treatment of women.

In the weeks leading up to the movie's release, hundreds of boycotts have sprouted up on social media: # 50dollarsnot50shades encourages potential viewers to donate the $ 50 they would have spent on a night out at the movies to a local women's shelter for survivors of domestic abuse.

I am certainly grateful that divorce exists as a means of getting out of an unhappy marriage (unlike in the old Hollywood movies where women took trains to Mexico to get divorces or in India where the divorce rate is something crazy like 1 or 2 % but where many couples live estranged instead as divorce is still a taboo).

One movie fitting that description is the upcoming film Suffragette, which tells the story of the British women's suffrage movement in the early 1900's.

The recent release of the movie Professor Marston and the Wonder Women has been heralded as «a trailblazer for polyamory in film» for depicting a polyamorous arrangement in a positive light.

... every time she sees a movie in which birth is a crisis or a catastrophe or a comedy of errors in which the mom is a crazed, expletive - hurling woman who is seriously out of control...

Instead (if you are interested in watching birth videos), watch movies like The Business of Being Born, Orgasmic Birth, Pregnant in America, Water Birth, Special Women, and normal birth videos on YouTube which represent birth as it usually is.

I have a memory of a war movie in which a woman is giving birth in a tank or a submarine (for whatever reason) and even in THAT situation, the men know better than she does how to labor — she's forced to lie down and put her feet up in two bandoliers suspended from the ceiling as stirrups.

But it's not perfect... for the life of me I'll never understand why a grown woman would butt in line in front of a toddler to hug someone in a Winnie The Pooh costume, why parents would wait for eons in line (in the blazing sun) so their child can get an autograph from a movie character (umm — you know that's not really Ariel, right?)

combined with (and I can't believe this is in the movie, though I haven't seen the movie) «As one doctor says in the movie, a woman can hemorrhage and bleed out in a matter of minutes.»

The moment we found out she was a girl, 3D ultrasound in which we saw her face, her baby showers, putting together the nursery, my continuously growing belly, her moving and kicking all the time, it seemed like I was watching the movie of another woman.

In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of controIn a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of controin movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

Either way, your daughter will be exposed to people, media and movies who paint the «role» of women in one of these ways.

There is a pattern in movies where women are always dreaming of having babies while men are trying to escape this chaining responsibility.

In modern terminology, this translates to a woman «listening» to the definitive messages from magazines, television, and movies (a.k.a. mainstream culture) as the ultimate determiner of beauty.

Despite what we see on TV and in the movies of a woman in labor always on her back in a bed, the ways to deliver a baby are practically endless.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in HollyWoman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywoman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

Kristina Johnson, an engineer who developed technology critical to 3 - D movies and served as under secretary in the U.S. Energy Department before founding a hydroelectric company, will be appointed chancellor of the SUNY, replacing outgoing Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, the first woman to hold the post.

Until Monday night, Eric Schneiderman was regarded as a model progressive in the #MeToo era — a powerful Democrat who, as New York's attorney general, sued Harvey Weinstein for civil and human rights violations over the movie mogul's alleged abuse of women.

That's the amount of time Vance said it would take to fully investigate allegations that the movie mogul forced himself on a woman in 2004 and another one in 2010.

A women's advocacy group will rally to denounce Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. for not prosecuting disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for the alleged groping of a model in 2015.