Month: October 2018

  • Review: Bodyguard

    Review: Bodyguard

    Bodyguard, a political thriller from the BBC, is solidly entertaining. It races through 6 episodes full speed ahead with twists, turns and surprises that keep you on the edge of your seat. The series is available on Netflix.

  • Trans in America: A Documentary Series from the ACLU

    Trans in America: A Documentary Series from the ACLU

    Trans in America is a series of three short documentaries from the ACLU. You can watch all three on the ACLU site or on YouTube.

  • Watch This: A New Trailer for season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    Watch This: A New Trailer for season 2 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    Season 1 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took home a little red wagon full of Emmy Awards and has already been promised a 3rd season by Amazon, even though we haven’t seen season 2 of this comedy yet.

  • Review: The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

    Review: The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka

    Michalina Wislocka was a Polish gynecologist and sexologist. In the late 1970s, she managed, after a long struggle, to get a guide to sexual happiness called The Art of Loving published. The Art of Loving: Story of Michalina Wislocka (Sztuka kochania. Historia Michaliny Wisłockiej) is based on her true story.

  • Review: Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

    Review: Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

    Feminists: What Were They Thinking? takes a slightly different approach to the history of feminism. If you lived through the various waves of feminist thought, you aren’t going to see anything new, but you will see some new faces entering the discussion.

  • Review: The Haunting of Hill House

    Review: The Haunting of Hill House

    The Haunting of Hill House will be discussed and analyzed for years to come. It’s that kind of work of art. Watching it is like peeling an onion – you think you’ve found the meat, but there’s always one more layer. You dig deeper and deeper in tighter and tighter circles until the whole opens…

  • Review: A Whale of a Tale

    Review: A Whale of a Tale

    A Whale of a Tale from director Megumi Sasaki is a years-long examination of the lives of local whalers, global activists with an American journalist in the whale and dolphin killing town of Taiji, Japan.

  • Review: The Kindergarten Teacher

    Review: The Kindergarten Teacher

    Maggie Gyllenhaal is brilliant in The Kindergarten Teacher. She’s been teaching for 20 years when this messy-haired, quiet kid named Jimmy Roy (Parker Sevak) enters her class. He turns her whole life upside down.

  • Brain Dump: The Connors, Supergirl, Murphy Brown

    Brain Dump: The Connors, Supergirl, Murphy Brown

    What’s new on the tube? I’ve been trying out some new shows and some old favorites. Here are a few thoughts on some of those shows. I’ll discuss The Connors, Supergirl, and Murphy Brown.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Miss Bala

    Watch This: Trailer for Miss Bala

    Let’s talk about Gina Rodriguez bringing it as a Latina in the lead of an action movie, Miss Bala. Why don’t we throw in the fact that the director is Catherine Hardwicke? Sounds like my kind of film!