'The Help' movie release brings new attention to author, lawsuit

The Help is easily the summer's most astounding movie. That's high praise, but according to our critic, it's well-earned.

On the surface The Help seems like your usual white savior movie, but a deeper message for women in general, not just black or minority women, is that they should never be afraid to step outside the box and challenge

But in that flick, Howard's character came from a very different environment and background than Hilly Holbrook in "The Help." She told us that filming the movie in Mississippi helped her get into the right mindset. "I feel like, in the movie,

"The Help," based on the book of the same name, is a racially charged but smartly understated portrait of the relationship between African-American maids and their white employers in Jackson, Miss. in the early 1960s.

The Help has a passionate legion of fans who will be nothing but thrilled with the cinematic take on the adored book. Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard shine in the powerful film that is

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Instaview brings Instagram pics to the Mac desktop

I love Instagram. At first I was skeptical about yet another photo-sharing app, but as soon as I started using it I discovered an entire social network around photos. Now I check in daily for a few minutes,

So it's completely understandable that Instagram user-ship would explode when the Biebz tweeted out his first photo using the popular iPhone photo sharing app, which he sent out late Thursday night. TechCrunch is reporting that Bieber's inaugural photo

Instagram Update. my life through random photos if you like what you see follow @Pletty. Posted by Ryan E. Plett. Labels: instagram · Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz

Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing startup known for its tiny staff and huge number of users, is adding one more member to its ranks. And in a surprise, it's not another engineer. Jessica Zollman, who starts Aug. 8 and will become the fifth

For those of you who don't follow my Twitter (not very exciting) feed you don't know that I use Instagram and use Twitter to upload my photos to. This is a small recap of my weekend on Instagram. My Instagram username is

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