Maggie Gyllenhaal

Women's Films Opening - May 18, 2012

Recommendations for the week: 

Hysteria - Directed by Tanya Wexler, co-written by Jonah Lisa Dyer

Here is a repost of the review of the review I wrote after I saw the film at the Toronto Film Festival.  The film opens in the US today.

Trailer Watch: Won't Back Down

This is my kind of movie.  It stars Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, and Holly Hunter.  Look for it in Theatres September 28.

Hysteria—movie review

Understandably, this R-rated comedy is being promoted as the story of how the vibrator came to be invented. That’s not untrue, but what makes 'Hysteria' so entertaining is the larger picture it paints of repressed Victorian society. That it does so in the form of a farcical comedy makes it all the m...

Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal In Witty, Slyly Feminist "Hysteria"

Hysteria, one of the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival, is now opening in theaters. If you misssed my Tribeca review of this sharp witty film, here it is:  

Interview with Tanya Wexler - Director of Hysteria

Tribeca Review: 'Hysteria' Is The Vibrator Comedy Movie You Can Watch With Your Mom

It turns out that all Sabina Spielrein needed to get over her hysteria was not Freud or Jung or the talking cure, but just a really good fingering. Indeed, the course of sexuality and/or psychoanalysis might have been irrevocably altered had Sabina taken a trip to London to visit Dr. Robert Dalrympl...

Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal In the Witty "Hysteria"

Hysteria, one of the highlights of the Tribeca Film Festival, is now opening in theaters. If you misssed my Tribeca review of this sharp witty film, here it is:  

First Look At Viola Davis & Maggie Gyllenhaal In 'Won't Back Down'; Film Will Hit Theaters In September

We really like Maggie Gyllenhaal. We really like Viola Davis too. We like this picture of the two of them looking happy and emotional from 20th Century Fox's upcoming release "Won't Back Down." We like that the film's supporting cast includes Holly Hunter, Oscar Isaac and Lance Reddick. Hell, we eve...