Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Signature Move, love and wrestling
Read more: Signature Move, love and wrestlingSignature Move does a lot of things right, even though it isn’t the best movie ever. It’s a love story and an homage to Lucha Libre and luchadoras.
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Secrets We Keep (Reservatet), Danish crime drama
Read more: Secrets We Keep (Reservatet), Danish crime dramaSecrets We Keep was originally titled Reservatet which translates to “The Reserve,” a wealthy neighborhood north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s a dark drama of wealth, power, exploitation, and murder. There are no spoilers in this review.
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Stay the Night, a slow romance told in one night
Read more: Stay the Night, a slow romance told in one nightStay the Night is an everything-happens-in-one-day kind of romance. Two people having their own separate bad days meet in a bar and stumble through a lot together before the morning.
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Ballard stars Maggie Q in an outstanding mystery series
Read more: Ballard stars Maggie Q in an outstanding mystery seriesBallard is another mystery series based on novels by Michael Connelly. Maggie Q stars in this one as Det. Renée Ballard who has been stuck in a basement working cold cases with a team of unpaid volunteers.
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review
Read more: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl reviewOn Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a rich, textured tale of family secrets revealed during a traditional Zambian funeral. Thematically, it shows how patriarchal systems and customs are enforced by both men and women. There are some spoilers ahead.
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The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie
Read more: The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin’s first talkieThe Great Dictator is an anti-Nazi political satire from 1940, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. He makes fun of dictators, which we have come to realize since then are all alike: narcissistic bullies who can’t take criticism and want to run the entire world according to their whims.
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National Anthem, a world hidden in plain sight
Read more: National Anthem, a world hidden in plain sightNational Anthem plunks a New Mexico day laborer into a world he never knew existed when he gets a job on a ranch run by a large group of queer rodeo riders.
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The Kollective, citizen journalists expose deep fakes
Read more: The Kollective, citizen journalists expose deep fakesThe Kollective features a group of young citizen journalists who are dedicated to speaking the truth in an age of misinformation. It’s set in locations all over the world as their investigation into a plane crash in the Congo leads them to a group of international incidents.