Category: News
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Bomb Girls the Movie: It’s a Go
Bomb Girls was a Canadian series, canceled after 2 seasons. It was a WWII story about women who worked in a bomb factory called Victory Munitions. It ran in Canada on Global TV and in the U.S. on Reelz. It’s available on Netflix. The show had a huge and enthusiastic following. After it was cancelled,…
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Joss Whedon: He’s Our Man!
Angel, Spike, Xander, Mal Reynolds, Jayne, Dr. Horrible, Victor, Topher Brink, Tony Stark, Agent Coulson. Great characters. I enjoy them all. One thing they have in common is that they are some of the on-screen characters under the guiding mind of Joss Whedon. He uses some great characters in his stories – at least half…
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Last Tango in Halifax might be Last Tango in Santa Fe
The Guardian tells us that Diane Keaton plans US remake of BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax. It will air on HBO. Sally Wainwright, the creator of the show, says she will be a producer of the American version but will not have a huge role in the production.
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No, You Silly, They Aren’t Clones, They’re Septuplets
Tatiana Maslany got so much attention for her amazing work in Orphan Black. The series Orphan Black received rave reviews. Orphan Black looks and smells like success and money. How you gonna jump on the Orphan Black bandwagon? Here’s how. Noomi Rapace is set to play 7 different sisters in What Happened to Monday? The…
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Women Directors Daily News
A post about 10 Female Filmmakers to Follow at Indiewire recently had many comments with additional names of women in film to follow in Twitter. One of the comments mentioned a Twitter list of women directors. Since it’s really easy to make a daily newspaper from a Twitter list using a tool called paper.li, I…
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Jon Stewart’s Interview with Malala
Malala Yousafzai is 16 now and is appearing in promotion of her book I am Malala. The Pakistani girl is the youngest person ever nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Her story and her courage are remarkable. Jon Stewart had her on The Daily Show. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily…
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Marvel: Ultimate Mentor Adventure for girls interested in STEM fields
Marvel is doing something marvelous for girls who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) around the release of Thor: The Dark World. The program is called Ultimate Mentor Adventure. Here’s how it works. Natalie Portman, who plays Jane Foster, an astrophysicist, in Thor: The Dark World describes the program in a video…
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We Need More Young Geeky Female Role Models on TV
In my other life as a web educator, I spoke on a panel at WordCamp last weekend. The panel was billed this way: Developer Diversity: The Mars/Venus Thing and WordPress Moderator: Karen Arnold Panelists: Suzette Franck, Alison Barrett, Daryl L. L. Houston, Virginia DeBolt, Mark Casias The discussion was about how to get more women in…
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Orphan Black explores the question of who owns a woman’s body
Tatiana Maslany recently gave an interview to TV Guide. They were talking to her about her upcoming role as Aziz Ansari’s love interest on Parks and Recreation, but the conversation quickly turned to Orphan Black and clones. In the final episode of season one on Orphan Black, the clone Cosima, a scientist, does some binary…
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Entertainment is a gift, hating on entertainers isn’t
We have a serious problem with our entertainment. We think we own it. We think we own the stories, the characters, the actors. We think it’s ours to dictate and control. If it isn’t the way we want it to be, we get vicious. Entertainment is a gift to us, created and conceived for our…