The Golden Globe nominees for 2014 were announced last week. It’s worth mentioning the number of names in the female categories that are women over 40. There were at least 2 of the 5 nominees in each category who are over 40. I have to confess that one of my favorites, Tatiana Maslany, is in the under 40 group. That …
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The Hot Flashes was directed by Susan Seidelman and stars a slew of women, chief among them Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Virginia Madsen, Camryn Manheim and Wanda Sykes. That attracted me before I even had a clue what the film was about. It turns out The Hot Flashes is about the efforts of a group of Texas women who were …
The delightful film The Sapphires is based on a real group of Aboriginal women from Australia who performed soul music in Viet Nam in 1968 for the troops there.
Go for Sisters is the latest film from writer and director, John Sayles. The movie’s web site describes the story like this: Bernice (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross) grew up so close people said they could “go for sisters”, but time sent them down different paths. Twenty years later, those paths cross: Fontayne is a recovering addict fresh out …
I went to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire the first weekend it was out, unlike the elders they interviewed for this film. I was not the only person in the theater with gray hair, either. It was very exciting, dramatic and suspenseful – as you would expect from a film like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Yes, there is gratuitous …
Muffin Top: A Love Story is a movie by women, about women. It’s also about body image. And love. I love it already. Watch the trailer. Muffin Top: A Love Story was funded by a Kickstarter project and a bunch of awesome people who like the idea of women both in front of and behind the camera as much as …
The English Teacher has potential, I think, as I’m thumbing my way through Netflix on a Friday night. Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane. It looks like a romantic comedy that could work on an otherwise long evening. I took a chance. I enjoyed it. I watched it all the way through. It wasn’t so terrible that I had to …
If you can pry the TV away from the football fans, there are many good movies available for instant streaming that can be fun for a family holiday weekend. Here are a few ideas for your Thanksgiving viewing. For the Grown-Ups Robot & Frank is delightful. Frank, warmly played by Frank Langella, is a former jewel thief and second story …
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Coming in December, The Invisible Woman stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens. Fiennes also directed the film. The title character is Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), a young actress whom Dickens met at the height of his fame and had a secret affair with. The costume drama also stars Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Michelle Fairley and Joanna Scanlan. It opens …
