Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski review
Read more: No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski reviewNo 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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A Thousand Blows S1 review: drama in Victorian London
Read more: A Thousand Blows S1 review: drama in Victorian LondonA Thousand Blows is a gritty drama set in 1880s London. It’s based on real people and true events. It explores a gang of women thieves and a couple of elite boxers.
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I’ll Be Right There review: when family is a comedy
Read more: I’ll Be Right There review: when family is a comedyI’ll Be Right There stars Edie Falco as Wanda, a sandwich generation superstar. Her mom is demanding, her two kids are demanding, and her response to every cry for help is “I’ll be right there.” Is her life an unhealthy, codependent comedy of errors, or is it all she ever wanted?
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The Gorge review: guarding the gate to hell
Read more: The Gorge review: guarding the gate to hellThe Gorge is part action movie, part horror, part romance, and a good enough movie if you aren’t too critical of the improbable details.
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Lucca’s World review: a determined mother gives her all
Read more: Lucca’s World review: a determined mother gives her allLucca’s World (Los dos hemisferios de Lucca) comes from Mexico. It’s a story about a child born with Cerebral palsy and epilepsy to a mother who thinks his illness is her fault. This drives her determination to do something about his situation.
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La Dolce Villa review, lighthearted romcom
Read more: La Dolce Villa review, lighthearted romcomLa Dolce Villa, a light and breezy romcom about an American father and daughter restoring an Italian villa, is the kind of bright and cheerful comedy you expect in a romcom. This one screams, “Take me to Tuscany right now!” in every beautiful picture postcard frame.
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Waitress: The Musical review – put Broadway on your screen
Read more: Waitress: The Musical review – put Broadway on your screenWaitress: The Musical is the Broadway show captured on film. Since I’ll never make it to a Broadway show, getting the opportunity to see beloved musicals like this one on my TV screen is a real treat.
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Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a review
Read more: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, a reviewBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy brings 20 years of Renée Zellweger’s reign as Bridget Jones, diary keeper, to a close. This one is slightly different in tone from the earlier films. Bridget is grieving, has kids, and finds carrying on with living after a loss hard to figure out.
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Laid review: Stephanie Hsu shines in this deadly comedy
Read more: Laid review: Stephanie Hsu shines in this deadly comedyLaid is a zany fantasy series about a woman whose ex lovers begin to die in strange ways – in the order that she slept with them. Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet star as best friends who struggle to figure out what’s happening and find a way to stop it.
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Past Lives review: quietly powerful
Read more: Past Lives review: quietly powerfulPast Lives is a quiet and touching exploration of love, friendship, and the meaning of relationships. It stars Greta Lee as a Korean woman who emigrated as a child of 12 from Korea to Canada. Later she moved to New York City. Her childhood friend Hae Sung comes into her life again and again in…