Category: News
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Best women led, women directed things I watched in 2025.
A little disclaimer in case you’re new here. I don’t watch everything. I review things directed by women or with women in the leading roles. With that in mind, I’ll list the things I liked best in movies, TV series, and documentary categories in 2025. Things are listed in the reverse order from when I…
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An announcement
I started Old Ain’t Dead in July 2013. Since then I have managed to post something new five days a week, every week. My purpose has always been “Reviews of movies and TV focused on women.”
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No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski review
No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski is a National Geographic documentary. It’s about food and ancestry. The six episodes go all around the world looking for foods and ancestral roots.
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Happy New Year
I’m so grateful to the folks from all around the world who come here to learn something about the movies and TV they are interested in. Thanks for visiting and have a healthy and happy new year.
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Barbie director’s commentary now on Max
Barbie director Greta Gerwig recorded a moment by moment commentary about the film. Normally you have to buy the DVD to get the director’s commentary. However Max is playing it now. It’s full of interesting tidbits. I had to search for Barbie commentary to find it, but it’s there.
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I Joined Mastodon
In searching for a replacement for Twitter now that it’s become home to a toxic boss, I settled on replacing it with Mastodon. So far I’m liking it there, although I don’t have much of a following yet. If you join Mastodon, too, I hope you’ll look me up there. @OldAintDead@mastodon.sdf.org
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A Small Rant about Close Captions and Subtitles
Look at that image. A TV series with three women as lead characters. It was written and directed by a woman. Perfect for me, right? Wrong. I tried to watch it but was stymied by the way close captions and subtitles are used.
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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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Interview with Marie Østerbye, season 5 writer and showrunner for Rita
When I contacted Christian Torpe to talk about season 5 of Rita, he said, I wasn’t very involved in season 5. You have to talk to Marie Østerbye. She ran the season. He put me in touch with her and she agreed to answer my questions about season 5 of the Danish hit series, Rita.…