Category: Movies
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Review: Summerland
Summerland tells a lesbian love story that segues into a tale about how the British protected their children from the Blitz during World War II. You feel the female gaze in this story, which was written and directed by Jessica Swale.
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Review: For Izzy
For Izzy is a blazing, idiosyncratic, independent film that is made of pieces that don’t belong together – but it works.
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Review: The Forty-Year-Old Version
The Forty-Year-Old Version is a powerhouse comedy from Radha Blank. According to IMDB, Blank has been writing, producing, acting, and directing for years. She put all that skill and knowledge together in this film about a woman facing forty and dealing with a world full of nothing good. There are some spoilers ahead.
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Review: Night Comes On
Night Comes On details two days in the impossibly difficult life of Angel (Dominique Fishback) as she’s released from juvenile detention on her 18th birthday. A bravura performance from Dominique Fishback brought this film to vivid life.
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Review: The Glorias
The Glorias is a biopic looking at Gloria Steinem’s life through her travels and at various stages in her life. Julie Taymor wrote and directed the film, which takes 2 hours and 20 minutes to wind its way through Steinem’s long life. The film is streaming on Prime Video.
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Can We Talk About Haifaa Al-Mansour?
Haifaa Al-Mansour is a woman director from Saudi Arabia. She has the distinction of being the first woman in that country to direct a film. That was in 2012. Since then she’s gone on to direct several more films. By now we can draw some conclusions about her.
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Review: Judy
Judy is Judy Garland, of course. This biopic starring Renée Zellweger doing a magnificent job as Judy is about the last few months of her life. We see her wit, her pain, her loneliness, and her genius.
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Review: Secret Society of Second-Born Royals
Secret Society of Second-Born Royals on Disney+ is a superpowered adventure with royal children. But only the second born royal children. The first born go on to become kings and queens, while the second born learn how to save the world.
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Review: Enola Holmes
Enola Holmes tells about Enola Holmes, the younger sister of Sherlock and Mycroft. It stars Millie Bobby Brown as Enola, an intrepid detective in her own right who beats her famous older brother to the answer every time.
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Documentaries Galore: RBG, The Fight, and All In
With Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing in the news and new documentaries that bear on the upcoming election, I spent the weekend watching docs. I saw RBG for the second time, The Fight, and All In: The Fight for Democracy. As Gloria Steinem once said, “Everything is political.” These three films, two issued just prior to…