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March is Women’s History Month—or is it? Has the current administration under President Donald Trump and Elon Musk cancelled Women’s History Month, or Black History Month? Has their war against DEI: which by the way stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion outlawed the use of words like “women,” “Black or African-American,” “Latina,” or concepts like…

The world lost one of the best actors of his or any generation in February when Gene Hackman left us. He hadn’t worked in two decades, but it still hurt to know that he was truly gone, and it got the entire world thinking of their favorite acting turns from the two-time Oscar winner. We…

When the In Memoriam tribute unspools during the Oscars on March 2, Gena Rowlands‘s name will no doubt be there. A two-time nominee, she died at age 94 in August. She remains unforgettable for her cinema performances, many directed by her husband, John Cassavetes, the pioneering indie filmmaker for whom she served as a longtime…

A 1980s screwball romantic comedy that’s retained some of the hallmarks of the genre’s heyday in the ’30s and ’40s, “Baby Boom”’s delightful chronicle of a high-powered New York businesswoman who inherits a baby from a long-estranged cousin and decides to escape the rat race in order to start over in idyllic small-town Vermont. It…

Ed Burns wrote and directed “Millers in Marriage,” the story of three middle-aged siblings and their complicated relationships. Burns plays a recently divorced man beginning a relationship with his wife’s former boss. In an interview, Gretchen Mol and Juliana Margulies, who play his characters’ sisters, Eve and Maggie, talked about the scene they shared, why…