After Aubrey Plaza purposely bombed a performance art moment on the MTV Awards it’s become clear she’s trying to be the next Andy Kaufman, and starting to succeed.

This is reprinted with permission from Chris’s personal blog. Chris is a hardcore retro video game enthusiast and when he isn’t play old games so bad they’ll make your eyes bleed he’s performing with his video game band, Gimmick! or playing bass for brentalfloss. I don’t have to tell you that the game Metroid was [...]

When talking about women’s contribution to film it’s incredibly easy to be a bit myopic and only really acknowledge Hollywood women–those who moved there and those who became famous there. BUT film isn’t just sunny and incredibly comfortable temperature wise California. Until the Nazification of Germany that country had a more prolific and higher quality [...]

As I was just telling editor Becca every time I see an actor on a cable show complain about how exhausting their work is I think of Julianna Margulies, who stars in a show of cable quality that does 22 episodes a season, and she’s in nearly every scene, and she produces the show (and [...]

There’s this funny little idea that when it comes to technology most women are the last to know. Men embrace the gadgets and make them thrive and women all adopt two years later and only when the gadgets are cheaper, pink and come loaded with make up tips and menstrual calendars (because all ladies menstruate [...]

Pepper Potts started life as only “kind of” bad ass.  She was a temp who noticed some accounting error that Tony Stark failed to notice and he was so impressed by her ability to not get completely bored by accounting errors (I am too Tony) that he hired her as his assistant. She then spent [...]

The other day I was gabbing with Rebecca and she dropped the bombshell that Rachel Dratch was originally Jenna on 30 Rock. She was kind of not okay with it because they clearly recast Dratch for not meeting a very specific standard of beauty. This led to us talking about other women who were recast [...]

I am an unabashed lover of the Judd. First, she was the one who told Natalie Portman to get with Forney even though Portman was worried her lack of education would bring Forney down and Judd was all, “Girl my kids are named after snacks in the checkout aisle at Wal-Mart and you’re kid basically [...]

I’m about to finish packing and head down to Austin for a week of super sweet SXSW coverage so while I drive through the rain and fight the urge to buy a giant burger at Storm’s I thought I’d stop and leave you guys with something fun. Like a “Bad Romance” and women’s suffrage mash-up! Yes [...]

There are some pretty amazing women working in Hollywood today. Filmmakers like Katherine Bigelow, Kimberly Pierce and Lynne Ramsay. Actors/producers like Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. Writers like the super contentious Diablo Cody. But before these women there were the trailblazers the women of Hollywood that made it acceptable for those directors to wear pants [...]