Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal Gears Up To Help Defend The Oval Office In 'White House Down'

Well, this is a bit curious. Maggie Gyllenhaal has never really been a tentpole/blockbuster kind of gal, and aside from Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight," she's mostly stuck to the indie/drama route. But it seems blowing up the White House with Roland Emmerich is just too good ...

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: