Summer is coming! To celebrate, we honor two women from our book named June – June Mathis and June Foray – two giants in Hollywood history.Read More

In April, we profiled some of the earliest of the 25 films selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2025. In this month’s newsletter, we are going to take a look at a few of the later selected films and the women associated with them.Read More

The 25 films selected for the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress have been announced, spanning the years from 1896 (a one minute short) to 2014 (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Read More

The 98th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Out of twenty-two possible categories, women were nominated in nineteen and won Oscars in thirteen of them.Read More

The Academy Award nominations have been announced! The entertainment community and film fans around the world will turn their attention to the 98th Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 15, to learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking.Read More

Congratulations to all the 2026 Golden Globe Award winners! An honorary Golden Globe Award is also given annually for “outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment” and is named after its first recipient – The Cecil B. DeMille Award.Read More

The two-part Wicked movie series features two strong female leads: Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West for those of your who watched the 1939 version of the Wizard of Oz movie every year during your childhood) and Ariana Grande-Butera as Glinda, the Good Witch.Read More

Throughout film history there have been daughters who have joined their movie-star mothers in the acting profession. We were reminded of this by the recent passing of actress Diane Ladd whose daughter, Laura Dern, also received acclaim in her acting career.Read More

Diane Keaton, who won the Best Actress Oscar in 1978 for her work in Annie Hall, recently passed away. In this newsletter, we profile her as well as some other Oscar contenders from 1978. Read More

You probably know – from all the media attention – that 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the blockbuster move Jaws. There were actually two blockbuster moves that year – the other being One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.Read More