April Wolfe

At least it looks like Diane Lane had fun filming this.; Credit: Sony Pictures Classics

Paris Can Wait Squanders Diane Lane – and Lots of Nice Dinners

Where are the goddamned roles for Diane Lane? Since her career launched, with a starring role as a precocious 13-year-old American girl in Paris in 1979’s A Little Romance, Lane seems to have confounded casting directors: Is she the button-nosed embodiment of joie de vivre or the anarchist post-punk tempest......
Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon; Credit: Jessica Brooks/Amazon

I Love Dick Celebrates the Radical Female Gaze

In the hands of Jill Soloway, I Love Dick has been adapted as an ostentatiously ovaries-to-the-wall comedy series for Amazon, one which so thoroughly explores that female gaze — in dialogue both self-aware and silly as well as in cinematic technique — that it’ll likely become scripture for the feminist filmmakers of the future....