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In high school, I was involved in a play that had a set of parents among the characters. At the first rehearsal, our director said, “fathers are the players and mothers are the teachers.” I thought,...

For sister showrunning duo Lilla and Nora Zuckerman, writing for Natasha Lyonne on a mystery-of-the-week drama series—each episode complete with its own murder and cast of characters—was like “strapping a rocket ship to Natasha’s back and...

This week, all of our content on the site is written by women. We’ll update this table of contents page with links to new pieces as they go up. INTROS Introduction to Women Writers Week 2023...

March is Women’s History Month, and we are pleased to celebrate it this week at RogerEbert.com with our ninth edition of Women Writers Week (“WWW 23”). While we honor women’s writing and contributions to the film and television industry all...

Screenwriters are often told that female characters have to be “relatable,” a term considered less offensive than “likeable” and yet somehow an adjective rarely if ever applied to male characters. But ever since the earliest days of movies,...

“I was a nice boy from Detroit.” That was how Tom Sizemore described himself after he had become one of the most recognizable faces in the American cinema, a drug-haunted tabloid fixture, a public spectacle, equally...

Writer/director Alex Heller pulls off a dazzling tonal high-wire act for her directorial debut, the story of a bipolar 20-year-old woman named Clemence. In the first act of “The Year Between,” she moves back in with...

I was still crying a good five minutes after finishing the first season of “Rain Dogs,” HBO’s black comedy written and created by Cash Carraway and starring Daisy May Cooper. Cooper plays Costello Jones, a working-class...

It’s only on the closing days of a new festival that things finally click into place, just in time to plan on heading home. It becomes significantly easier to navigate the vagaries of the city’s transport...

When I first read the tagline of Sofia Alaoui’s “Animalia,” I was intrigued. “A young pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.” At best, I expected to watch an alien-invasion science fiction film like M....