Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Office Romance, romcom with bonus characters
Read more: Office Romance, romcom with bonus charactersOffice Romance fits the romcom mold perfectly. Cute couple, nice chemistry, upscale settings, happy ending. But this film offers more in the form of some quirky and fun secondary characters who add pizzaz to the proceedings.
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Lies We Tell, period Irish drama
Read more: Lies We Tell, period Irish dramaLies We Tell, an atmospheric Irish drama set in a remote castle, tells a tense story of young Maud (Agnes O’Casey) and her struggle to hang on to her inheritance while greedy relatives seek to steal it all.
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Midwinter Break, a marriage in crisis
Read more: Midwinter Break, a marriage in crisisMidwinter Break is a two-hander with Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville as a long time married couple who are struggling to get through a crisis in their relationship.
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A Foggy Tale, surviving oppression
Read more: A Foggy Tale, surviving oppressionA Foggy Tale follows a naive young Taiwanese girl who travels to Taipei on her own to retrieve the body of her beloved older brother. The film is set in 1953, a period of time known as White Terror under the rule of the Kuomintang government.
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Miss You, Love You and the anger of grief
Read more: Miss You, Love You and the anger of griefMiss You, Love You puts two strangers together planning a funeral and watches as they work through grief, anger, resentment and loss by taking it out on each other.
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Blue Jean, a closeted lesbian in 1980 Scotland
Read more: Blue Jean, a closeted lesbian in 1980 ScotlandBlue Jean came to my attention in the flurry of publicity after season one of The Testaments ended. I learned that Lucy Holliday, who played Daisy in The Testaments, won the 2023 BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Film for Blue Jean. That sounded worth checking out.
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The Wonderfools, fun Korean superhero adventure
Read more: The Wonderfools, fun Korean superhero adventureThe Wonderfools is a comic book style superhero story from South Korea. It’s slapstick comedy coupled with a story about unlikely heroes saving the world from a mad scientist. I enjoyed the humor. It took me back to things like The Keystone Cops and Abbott and Costello.
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Ladies First, this remake doesn’t shine
Read more: Ladies First, this remake doesn’t shineLadies First is a remake of a French film. It’s a reworking of I Am Not an Easy Man (Je ne suis pas un homme facile). I watched the French version in 2018 and thought it was pretty good. This English version had a good cast and a woman director, but it didn’t measure up…
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Slip, Zoe Lister-Jones in multiple realities
Read more: Slip, Zoe Lister-Jones in multiple realitiesSlip is Zoe Lister-Jones all the way. She wrote, directed, and stars in this comedy/fantasy/drama series. I thought it was excellent overall, and her performance as a woman slipping through various universes was outstanding.