Natalie Portman

Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman in May December

May December: great actors go for the cringe

May December, from director Todd Haynes, tells a creepy, cringey story about an actress who goes to visit a Mary Kay Letourneau-like woman in order to play her in a movie.

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Geena Davis

Review: This Changes Everything

I know you’ve seen the statistics from This Changes Everything about the percentage of women in front of and behind the camera before. But This Changes Everything takes you inside the story. It lets in you in on the struggle

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Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in No Strings Attached

Review: No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached is a 2011 romantic comedy directed by Ivan Reitman. It’s warm and clever and has a fabulous cast of folks who were on the cusp of famous back then, as well as the already famous Natalie Portman

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Rita Moreno

Brain Dump: Pop Culture Three-Pack

My premise about pop culture for this blog is that it matters. What we see becomes what we think and what we know as a society. In that light, I wanted to share a few general items that I found

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Watch This: Westerns with Women – Trailers for Jane Got a Gun and The Keeping Room

When I was a kid I went to the movies every week. So many of those movies were Westerns. That was in the days of John Wayne and Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Men on horses with six

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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

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