Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: Sex Education
Read more: Review: Sex EducationThe Netflix series Sex Education manages to be both sexually frank and explicit while simultaneously sexually awkward and insecure. It’s a combination producing both heartfelt and hilarious moments.
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Review: Grand Hotel (Gran Hotel) season 3
Read more: Review: Grand Hotel (Gran Hotel) season 3Season 3 of the popular Spanish telenovela Grand Hotel (Gran Hotel) is available on Netflix. All your favorite characters are back. The plot is as twisty and full of high emotion as ever.
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Review: Annihilation
Read more: Review: AnnihilationThe alien DNA that crashes into Earth in Annihilation is going to engulf and destroy everything human! Unless Natalie Portman as cell biologist Lena can save the world! There are some spoilers ahead.
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Brain Dump: Before I Fall, Good Trouble, and Project Blue Book
Read more: Brain Dump: Before I Fall, Good Trouble, and Project Blue BookShall we have a few words on the movie Before I Fall, the new series Good Trouble on Freeform, and the History Channel’s Project Blue Book.
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Review: Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes)
Read more: Review: Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes)Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes) is a charming and delightful French film. Bad Seeds (Mauvaises herbes) was written by, directed by, and stars Kheiron. Catherine Deneuve adds to the pleasure.
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Review: Private Life
Read more: Review: Private LifeWriter and director Tamara Jenkins handed Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn an intimate script in Private Life. The two of them took it and made it vital and alive enough to reach out and grab the audience for over 2 hours of fascinating human drama.
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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries on Netflix
Read more: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries on NetflixNetflix has all 3 seasons of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, the Australian series that I first reviewed some time ago. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries season 3, the focus of this post, is as much fun as the first 2 seasons were.
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My Leave No Trace post at #DirectedbyWomen
Read more: My Leave No Trace post at #DirectedbyWomen#DirectedbyWomen has another ambitious project going. It’s Crucial 21st Century Cinema or #Crucial21DbW. The project’s creator Barbara Ann O’Leary wants to publish a guest blogger’s post about a film directed by a woman every day in 2019.
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Black Mirror: ‘Bandersnatch’ The Joke’s on Me
Read more: Black Mirror: ‘Bandersnatch’ The Joke’s on MeNetflix found a way to market a choose your own adventure game. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is that game.
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Review: First Reformed
Read more: Review: First ReformedFirst Reformed is an intellectual journey inward through the mind and sparse congregation of the Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke) of the First Reformed Church. It’s an austere world we visit in this film.