Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Watch This: Trailer for Furlough
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for FurloughFurlough presses all the right buttons. Female leads, female director, and the promise of a fun comedy. Check out the trailer.
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Review: Kiri
Read more: Review: KiriKiri is a four-part drama out of the UK’s channel 4, now streaming on Hulu following National Treasure. There were no starring roles in this tightly-drawn cast, but the standout player for me was Sarah Lancashire as Miriam Grayson, a social worker.
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Review: The Titan
Read more: Review: The TitanThe Titan is a Netflix original sci-fi movie. It takes place in the year 2048. Over half of the earth is uninhabitable. The earth’s population is starving. A scientist, Prof. Martin Collingwood (Tom Wilkinson) comes up with a way to modify humans in the hope they are capable of living on Titan, one of the…
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Review: In Search of Fellini
Read more: Review: In Search of FelliniIn Search of Fellini stars an always fabulous Ksenia Solo as a shy, over-protected, young woman from Ohio who discovers the films of Federico Fellini and leaves for Italy with the intention of meeting him.
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Review: First Match
Read more: Review: First MatchFirst Match is a raw and beautiful coming of age story. Elvire Emanuelle stars as a teenager in foster care who joins her high school wrestling team to get the attention of her dad.
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Review: Acceptable Risk
Read more: Review: Acceptable RiskAcceptable Risk is an Irish mini-series about a woman whose husband is murdered while he’s on a business trip to Montreal.
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Review: Benji
Read more: Review: BenjiI watched the 2018 Benji in honor of my daughter. Tearjerking dog stories are not my normal genre, but my memory of her watching the original Benji in the late 1970s is so strong, I had to watch it.