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Genius, the man who edited Thomas Wolfe
Genius, the 2016 version starring Colin Firth and Jude Law, is about Scribner editor Max Perkins (Firth) and his efforts to corral the language of Thomas Wolfe (Law) into marketable books.
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Tár, total brilliance from Cate Blanchett
Tár is 2 hours and 38 minutes of watching Cate Blanchett be brilliant as the first ever woman director of the Berlin Orchestra, Lydia Tár. Lydia was also a woman who used her power to seduce the young women who caught her interest.
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Shotgun Wedding, a Jennifer Lopez comedy
Shotgun Wedding is an action-packed goofball comedy that will make you laugh out loud. A destination wedding for Darcy (Jennifer Lopez) and Tom (Josh Duhamel) is about to happen on a private island in the Philippines.
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Aftersun, fragments of a distant past
Aftersun is the story of a father and daughter on vacation in Turkey, but overarching that is the now grown daughter’s struggle to understand her father through adult eyes. This review contains spoilers.
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Slumberland, a wildly imaginative dreamworld
Slumberland tells a wildly imaginative story about a girl’s journey through dreamland in search of love and family. When Nemo’s (Marlow Barkley) father dies, she turns to dreams to help her find her way.
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Language Lessons, human connection via video
Language Lessons is a two-hander with Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass as strangers involved in long distance Spanish lessons. He’s a student in California, she’s the teacher in Costa Rica. Their conversations lead to a friendship.
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Slash/Back, horror in the far north
Slash/Back is a horror flick from an indigenous woman director named Nyla Innuksuk, who also co-wrote the story. It’s an homage to The Thing, except it takes place in northern Canada near the Arctic Circle and a bunch of teen girls defeat the icky, blood sucking alien entities that comes for them.
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Dive (La caída) tells a story of abuse in the sports world
Dive (La caída) tells a story of a swim coach who takes advantage of the young girls striving to reach the Olympics under his care. The story is set in Mexico, but represents a world-wide issue for young female athletes. Karla Souza, from How to Get Away with Murder, stars and produced.
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The Legend of Molly Johnson, Leah Purcell tackles Aussie history
The Legend of Molly Johnson (originally titled The Drover’s Wife) is a passion project from Leah Purcell who wrote, directed, and starred in this Australian story.
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Mack and Rita is a big disappointment
Mack and Rita stars Diane Keaton. It has a female director (Katie Aselton). Of course those credentials made me want to watch it. The premise of the story – a 30 year old temporarily occupies her 70 year old body – has promise, the but implementation of that idea was not great.
Reviews of movies and TV focused on women