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Catt Sadler Became A Face For The Gender Pay Gap. Here’s What She’s Doing About It.
“I never expected this kind of response, but I’m really leaning into it now,” Sadler told BuzzFeed News.
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The Touching Gay Story At The Center Of This Year’s Raunchiest Movie
Though many raunchy comedies before it have relied on gay panic jokes, Blockers gives us a moving story about a gay teen and her father’s quest to help her accept herself. (Warning: spoilers!)
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If You’re Not Watching “The Magicians” At This Point, You’re Missing Out On Something Great
The best ensemble show about a twentysomething friend group also happens to be an adult spin on Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia. (Warning: spoilers ahead!)
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5 Reasons Not To Sleep On The New Netflix Teen Show With An All-PoC Cast
It’s an irreverent teen comedy-drama with a main cast entirely made up of people of color. And it’s pretty great.
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Terry Crews Is Not Going Down Without A Fight
“People don’t understand that Hollywood is a very violent place,” Terry Crews told BuzzFeed News. “The best way to put it is that it’s like a plantation. … They cut your head off so that the next person doesn’t speak.”
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How “Jane The Virgin” Decided To Make Two Major Characters Bisexual
Part of a larger bisexual boom on TV, one of Jane the Virgin’s central characters is coming into her sexuality via an electric romance with a character played by Rosario Dawson.
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The Simple Revolutionary Power Of Ava DuVernay’s Vision For “A Wrinkle In Time”
“Storm Reid as Meg Murray is kind of a radical idea,” DuVernay told BuzzFeed News. The same could be said of DuVernay as her director — a black woman directing a major sci-fi film centered on a young black girl. (Very light spoilers ahead.)
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Here Are The Very Few #MeToo And Time’s Up Moments That Happened At The Oscars
Compared with the Golden Globes, the Oscars took a more…relaxed approach to the fight against sexual misconduct in Hollywood.
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“Black Panther” Is A Pan-African Medley Aiming To Reframe The Narrative
Coming from a largely African-American perspective, the creative team behind Black Panther molded Wakanda into a country that spans a continent. (Warning: Light spoilers ahead.)
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Amber Tamblyn Is Finding Her Way In The Reckoning Along With The Rest Of Us
Tamblyn talked to BuzzFeed News about Time’s Up, James Woods, Quentin Tarantino, and the importance of women’s rage. “I am pro-anger,” Tamblyn said. “I am anti-passivity.”
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8 Amazing Actors You Don’t Know Now But Will Be Talking About A Lot Soon
From eighth-grade girls to skateboarding showboats to struggling gay teenagers, these actors and their roles wowed audiences at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — and promise to keep audiences buzzing all year.
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14 Movies You Should Know About From The Sundance Film Festival
It was a quieter year at the annual film festival in Park City, Utah, but there were still plenty of powerful, moving, and surprising films worth talking about.
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“Sorry To Bother You” Is A Wacky Movie Featuring Horse-People Dicks And An Activist Heart
Sorry to Bother You stars Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, heavy doses of sci-fi and fantasy, and the genitals of horse-people.
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“The Tale” Could Be The Most Important Movie Of The Year For The #MeToo Movement
The Tale, Jennifer Fox’s autobiographical film about a woman reckoning with repressed sexual abuse, couldn’t have come at a more potent time.
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Dylan Farrow Is Not Going To Let Hollywood Forget Its Support Of Woody Allen
“The people who join this movement without taking any kind of personal accountability for the ways in which [they’ve] helped to perpetuate the culture they are fighting against, that’s hard for me to reconcile,” Farrow said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.
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Here Are The Big #MeToo And Time’s Up Moments That Dominated The Golden Globes
“For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men,” Oprah said. “But their time is up. Their time is up.”
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6 Ways Hollywood Can Do Better In 2018
When it comes to grappling with its own history, keeping the reckoning going, and expanding representation, Hollywood has a ways to go.
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14 Scenes From Movies And TV That Made Us Cry In 2017
We did a lot of crying this year, and sometimes it had nothing to do with the news. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
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In 2017, Two New Shows Used Feminism While Failing Women Of Color
The Handmaid’s Tale and The Bold Type sold themselves to audiences by attaching themselves to feminist conversations. But without considering race, they left women of color behind. Warning: Spoilers within.
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15 Shows That Got Us Through 2017
The best television in a year that has sometimes felt like a cultural and political nightmare.
