Ross Putman is a film producer in L.A., and he started to notice a trend in the movie scripts he read. The first descriptions of the female lead tended to follow a pattern: they were all focused ...

From Little Women to Brokeback Mountain, here are ten of the best monologues to feature in movies released in the last twenty years.

Perusing scripts in his job as a film producer, Ross Putnam often found something else — especially when it came to female characters. The descriptions contained little other than words like ...

Monologues have become a rare feature in modern cinema, but when they do show up, they can become one of the best moments in an entire film. These monologues have been remembered fondly thanks to ...

In “Pearl,” “Resurrection,” and “TÁR,” the stunning speeches by the respective leads rank among the best acting performances of 2022.

Researchers have developed a novel machine-learning framework that uses scene descriptions in movie scripts to automatically recognize different characters' actions. Applying the framework to ...

While women in film account for less of the "They murdered him"-s than their male co-stars, the study showed a rising usage of murderous verbs by female characters throughout the data set as well.

Female character introductions in scripts show that sexism continues to be pervasive in entertainment. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV Plus Icon What To Watch Plus Icon Music Plus Icon Docs ...