Our increasingly graphic culture has often made us expect, and sometimes uncomfortably desire, more explicit content in films, even those dealing with sexual harassment in the #MeToo era.

In 2017, when the #MeToo movement gained major traction after Harvey Weinstein’s decades of alleged abuse were revealed, it was only a matter of time before a feature film tackled the scandal. While ...

Kitty Green’s new film “The Assistant,” in theaters Jan. 31, examines the abuse—both physical and psychological—in Hollywood through the eyes of an office assistant. Former Entertainment Writer I ...

Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Kitty Green’s Harvey Weinstein scandal-inspired film “The Assistant.” “The Assistant” follows a day in the life of Jane, played by Julia Garner ...

Kitty Green imagines a day in the life of an entry-level film industry employee, raising aspects of #MeToo and the Harvey Weinstein scandal without going nearly deep enough. It’s a woefully familiar ...

It's a coincidence that the film The Assistant, released today (January 31), is coming out while the trial against the former film mogul, Harvey Weinstein, is underway. The sexual assault accusations ...

Greed and fear permeate the toxic culture of a New York film company in The Assistant, Kitty Green’s clear-eyed examination of an industry where repellent behaviour has been normalised Did you know ...

Production has started on the film adaptation of horror work sim The Mortuary Assistant, with Willa Holland in the lead role. Holland - who has previously starred in Arrow and Gossip Girl, although I ...

Our increasingly graphic culture has often made us expect, and sometimes uncomfortably desire, more explicit content in films, even those dealing with sexual harassment in the #MeToo era.

Jane (Julia Garner) is a low-pay, lower-prestige assistant to a powerful movie executive (we only hear him called “the chairman” in the office, and never see him). Like many entry-level workers, she ...