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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.
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Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical review
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical was a complete surprise to me. I was expecting music, dancing, and a happy, cheerful children’s story. There was music and dancing, but Matilda’s story turned out to be a dark fantasy about child abuse and neglect.
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is utterly delightful
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is utterly delightful. It’s light and fun, full of humor, murder, satire, slapstick, and glamour. The cast is having as much fun with the material as the viewers. The original Knives Out was very good. This is even better.
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Alone Together, Katie Holmes tells a lockdown story
Alone Together is a quiet and simple tale about the first weeks of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. It was written by, directed by, and stars Katie Holmes. The writing was ordinary, but the direction was good and gave us a positive example of the female gaze.
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The Woman King, fierce & heroic women save everyone
The Woman King from director Gina Prince-Bythewood tells a semi-true story of heroic warriors, enlightened leadership, and sisterhood. In the Kingdom of Dahomey, in the year 1823, the women warriors called Agojie fought against invaders and won.
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Troll, action packed sci-fi fantasy from Norway
Troll takes old Norwegian mythology about trolls, mixes it in with modern day science, and creates a thriller that is a mix of science and fantasy. Nora Tidemann (Ine Marie Wilmann) is a scientist who studies fossils. She gets called in to help with something inexplicable.
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover, a love story for the ages
Here’s the story of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The main characters have a meet cute. There’s a period where they get acquainted and fall in love. There’s a period where they’re hot and heavy. Circumstances force them to break apart. They are brokenhearted. At the last minute they get back together for a happy ending.
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Emily the Criminal, or Aubrey Plaza the antihero
Emily the Criminal is a departure for Aubrey Plaza. She’s ready and willing to go to the dark side in this film. Playing this part takes her beyond anything she’s done before. She’s really good as the steely-nerved, tough Emily.
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How to Please a Woman, Australian twist on a theme
How to Please a Woman is an Australian comedy about a woman who loses her job and stumbles on a new business idea that women LOVE. Sally Phillips stars in this funny and sexy story. Beware – some spoilers ahead.
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Christmas with You, feel good holiday music and romance
Christmas with You is a touching, feel good story about a pop star and one of her biggest fans as they connect around music and the holidays. The cast is mainly Latinix and Black. Gabriela Tagliavini directed.
Reviews of movies and TV focused on women