Blue-Collar Oscar Bait

Pretty actresses go working class and frumpy to win accolades.

Why Are Girl Journalists in Movies So Lame?

Crazy Heart continues the tradition.

An Angry Lady in Parachute Pants

Q&A with Jane Lynch, the villain from Glee.

Uma, Put Down the Pacifier and Step Away

Want to silence Uma Thurman, the ruthless killer bride of Kill Bill, Vols. 1 and 2? Stick a binkie in her mouth. That's the message of Motherhood: The Movie.

Where the Depressed Things Are

It's not just boring and scary, it also might be a failure of imagination.

Girls Like Vampires Because We Want To Have Sex With Gay Guys?

The problem with Esquire's Stephen Marche's argument that girls like vampires because we want to have sex with gay guys.

The Socratic Ideal of Student-Teacher Sex

I envy the relationship those Greeks had, back when terms like “statutory rape” didn’t exist.

Precocious Kids and "An Education"

In "An Education," Jenny, for all of her schooling, is unschooled about many aspects of adult life (sex and culture being the two big ones), but her preternatural self-possession is not just a put on.

Is the Love Affair in "An Education" Statutory Rape?

Coming on the heels of the Roman Polanski arrest, the plot of An Education is particularly fraught.

A Trip to Rome Brought Out My Inner Hedonist

From the Pantheon to the piazzas, I loved everything—including the men.

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