Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year, women made up just 13% of directors working on the top 250 films. That level represents a 3-percentage-point decline ...

Only 8% of directors with movies in theaters in 2025 were women. That news comes from an annual study from USC Annenberg. It reveals a reversal of trends that were not great to begin with; in 2020, ...

As we take stock of 2025, here's one metric - the number of women directors dropped this year, at least those with movies in theaters. And as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, their numbers were not exactly ...

A Minecraft Movie immediately creates a sticky paradox for itself. Clearly hoping to follow in the footsteps of a project like The Lego Movie, this video-game adaptation wants to pay tribute to the ...

The new "SpongeBob Movie" arrives in theaters Friday, Dec. 19. There's a fair amount of bathroom humor and some scary images of a zombie sailing crew and Underworld monsters. Parents will appreciate ...

Kids of all ages know you have to go to a pineapple under the sea to find SpongeBob SquarePants. And in his new movie, the little yellow dude travels to uncharted territory: the Underworld! The ...

In a choir, unity is essential. Breathe together, sing together, stop together. But for the teenagers of “Little Trouble Girls,” unity is a difficult prospect: Their bodies are changing, their ...

When I connect with Alicia Silverstone on Zoom, she’s in animal rescue mode. “Why is your collar so tight?” she says to the off-screen canine who’s materialized at her side in the sunny loft where she ...

Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

The newest newie movie “Ella McCay” stars Jamie Lee Curtis playing the backbone who tells her brother’s wife to leave him. Real friends say that’s this Oscar winner in real life — protective, ...