Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: Booksmart
Read more: Review: BooksmartBooksmart stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as high school friends who realize just before graduation day that they’ve done nothing but work all through high school. They vow to do something fun before it’s too late.
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Review: Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
Read more: Review: Dolly Parton’s HeartstringsDolly Parton’s Heartstrings is a set of 8 stories based on songs from Dolly Parton’s past. The stories are unrelated and can be watched in any order. All of them are stories about love and faith and do indeed tug at the heartstrings.
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Review: The Accident
Read more: Review: The AccidentSarah Lancashire, Joanna Scanlan, and Sidse Babett Knudsen star in The Accident, the final series in a trilogy by writer Jack Thorne. A lot of vocal Brits on Twitter hated it when it aired on Channel 4 in the UK. I found it gripping, complex and nuanced.
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Review: High Seas (Alta Mar), season 2
Read more: Review: High Seas (Alta Mar), season 2Season 2 of High Seas (Alta mar), a Spanish language TV series, was stronger in terms of plotting than season 1. The scenes of the ship sailing on the ocean looked a little better as well. I think Netflix decided to invest more money in this series when they saw it was a hit, and…
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Review: The Crown, season 3
Read more: Review: The Crown, season 3The Crown, season 3, has an all new cast but the same royal family we enjoyed getting to know in previous seasons. The switch to older actors in the royal roles is hardly an awareness blip as the new cast takes over with brilliant work all round.
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The Revolutionary Vibe of Batwoman
Read more: The Revolutionary Vibe of BatwomanGood heavens, people, Batwoman is doing revolutionary things in every episode. I’m talking about gay pride, about openly being a lesbian superhero.
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Review: The Good Karma Hospital, season 3
Read more: Review: The Good Karma Hospital, season 3The Good Karma Hospital, set in India, comes to AcornTV by way of the UK. In season 3 the group of doctors and nurses who work at the hospital are joined by a few new castmates who shake things up at bit. There are some minor spoilers ahead.
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Review: The Man in the High Castle, season 4
Read more: Review: The Man in the High Castle, season 4The Man in the High Castle, season 4, brought the long sci fi saga of a multiverse of worlds to an end. The world most of the story sits firmly in is where the US lost WWII and Germany and Japan have divided the former US between them. If you’re reading this, I assume you’ve…
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Revisiting Limetown after season 1 ended
Read more: Revisiting Limetown after season 1 endedI wrote about Limetown after seeing only the first 4 episodes of this Facebook Watch series. Now I’ve seen all of the first season and wanted to update some thoughts on the series.
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Review: The Secret of Crickley Hall
Read more: Review: The Secret of Crickley HallGhosts get stirred up in The Secret of Crickley Hall, a 2012 BBC horror series on Hulu and several other streamers. Suranne Jones stars, which means it must be watched.