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Terry’s Picks: Year of the Woman, CW Showrunners, Flip the Script

Finally: The groundbreaking 1973 documentary Year of the Woman, about the feminist movement, will be available for wide release after a 40-year disappearance. Thank you: At the TCA’s, eight of the CW’s 12 women showrunners discussed their effort to keep gratuitous sexual violence against women off the small screen. Flip the script: Funny or Die...

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Flix Not To Miss: Women Who Rock

Along with movies, rock-n-roll is one of America’s greatest exports.  So this summer, let’s celebrate two of the best rock-roll-movies. Before she showed us The Kids Are Alright, Lisa Cholodenko wrote and directed Laurel Canyon, a great rock movie with one of the best parts written for an actress. Christian Bale plays Sam, an uptight doctor who...

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