Category: Movies

  • The Secret Life of Bees, revisiting an old favorite

    The Secret Life of Bees, revisiting an old favorite

    The Secret Life of Bees is a perfect rewatch when you’ve reached the end of everything new on all your streamers. It stars a gaggle of women, and was written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from a novel by Sue Monk Kidd.

  • Magpie looks at a failing marriage

    Magpie looks at a failing marriage

    Magpie takes place inside a marriage. It’s based on an idea the lead actor, Daisy Ridley, had. She produced the film and her husband Tom Bateman wrote the script. Daisy Ridley really wrung this one out with an uncomfortable look at a bad marriage and a clever and rewarding ending.

  • Exterritorial, woman led action movie

    Exterritorial, woman led action movie

    Exterritorial is an action movie built around a mother who claims her son was kidnapped inside the American Embassy in Germany when they were seeking passports. There’s plenty of gaslighting in the plot, aided by the mother’s PTSD from her time as a soldier. There’s also a strong thread of a mother who will never…

  • Nonnas review, a sweetheart of a story

    Nonnas review, a sweetheart of a story

    Nonnas tells a heartwarming story about true events. It all started with a love of traditional Italian family home cooking and evolved into a restaurant where all the cooks were real nonnas (grandmothers).

  • The Room Next Door Review

    The Room Next Door Review

    The Room Next Door from writer and director Pedro Almodóvar takes a long look at two friends as they navigate one of them facing a terminal illness. Pedro Almodóvar movies always feel a little odd to me, and this film produced the same sensation.

  • Black Bag, a delightful spy thriller

    Black Bag, a delightful spy thriller

    In Black Bag Cate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender are married spies in British intelligence. They spy on each other, on their work colleagues, and on the world. They’re chess masters manipulating the players and the moves on a life and death global chess board.

  • Another Simple Favor, it’s one obsession after another

    Another Simple Favor, it’s one obsession after another

    Another Simple Favor again brings Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick together in a crazy twisty plot about murder. The not-so-secret Sapphic attraction between them still simmers in the background, but gets even crazier.

  • Jerry and Marge Go Large to win the lottery and save the town

    Jerry and Marge Go Large to win the lottery and save the town

    Jerry and Marge Go Large is based on a true story about a couple who found a flaw in the lottery and used it to make enough money to revive their entire decaying town and help their community. Beware the spoilers.

  • Review: Widows, updated

    Review: Widows, updated

    Widows is crammed with star power, blessed with an engaging but tricky plot, and is a paen to female empowerment. I was expecting lots of action from the women, but the story built slowly toward a few moments of action at the end. I first reviewed this movie in 2018, but added updates in 2025…

  • Babygirl wants to be humiliated

    Babygirl wants to be humiliated

    Babygirl is the second film/series I’ve seen recently about a woman who starts acting on her lifelong secret sexual desires later in life. The other was Dying for Sex, which is a mirror image of Babygirl. Dying for Sex is about a woman (Michelle Williams) who wants to dominate her partners. Babygirl is about a…