Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man is a 2005 documentary that found its way to Amazon Prime Video recently. His music will never grow old or cease to incite wonder. This documentary is a good reminder of that.
Continue reading “Review: Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man”Brittany Runs a Marathon is a comedy with plenty of serious undertones. It takes an aimless, irresponsible woman from her meaningless life to purposeful adulthood and it’s funny in the process.
Continue reading “Review: Brittany Runs a Marathon”The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is as unique and unusual as the title hints it is. The subject matter, the writing style, the camera work – everything about this film breaks the mold. The Canadian indie is set in an unnamed city. There are spoilers ahead.
Continue reading “Review: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open”Bloom, from Australia, brings another sci fi series to lovers of the genre. It’s a six part series available on Hulu in the U.S. There are spoilers ahead.
Season 1 ends with a tantalizing cliffhanger, and season 2 is already in the works. Some beloved Australian stars lead this one – particularly Bryan Brown and Jacki Weaver.
Continue reading “Review: Bloom, season 1”Booksmart stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as high school friends who realize just before graduation day that they’ve done nothing but work all through high school. They vow to do something fun before it’s too late.
Continue reading “Review: Booksmart”Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings is a set of 8 stories based on songs from Dolly Parton’s past. The stories are unrelated and can be watched in any order. All of them are stories about love and faith and do indeed tug at the heartstrings.
Continue reading “Review: Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings”Sarah Lancashire, Joanna Scanlan, and Sidse Babett Knudsen star in The Accident, the final series in a trilogy by writer Jack Thorne. A lot of vocal Brits on Twitter hated it when it aired on Channel 4 in the UK. I found it gripping, complex and nuanced.
Continue reading “Review: The Accident”Season 2 of High Seas (Alta mar) was stronger in terms of plotting than season 1. The scenes of the ship sailing on the ocean looked a little better as well. I think Netflix decided to invest more money in this series when they saw it was a hit, and it shows. The Spanish series has been renewed for at least 4 seasons.
Continue reading “Review: High Seas (Alta Mar), season 2”The Crown, season 3, has an all new cast but the same royal family we enjoyed getting to know in previous seasons. The switch to older actors in the royal roles is hardly an awareness blip as the new cast takes over with brilliant work all round.
Continue reading “Review: The Crown, season 3”Good heavens, people, Batwoman is doing revolutionary things in every episode. I’m talking about gay pride, about openly being a lesbian superhero.
Continue reading “The Revolutionary Vibe of Batwoman”
