Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: Travelers Season 2
Read more: Review: Travelers Season 2Travelers season 2 jumps back into the world where travelers from several hundred years in the future have returned to the 21st Century to try to save the world. Their aim is to change history so that the humans living in the 21st Century don’t destroy the environment and society to the point of creating…
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Review: The Shape of Water
Read more: Review: The Shape of WaterIt’s fair to say I’m enthusiastic about The Shape of Water. This fantastical love story was beautiful and unique.
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Review: Cable Girls (Las Chicas Del Cable) Season 2
Read more: Review: Cable Girls (Las Chicas Del Cable) Season 2The nine episodes of season 2 of Cable Girls (Las Chicas Del Cable) are available on Netflix. The new episodes open with New Year’s Eve 1929 in Madrid, Spain. The women who work for the telephone company and characters who swirl around them get the season off to a dramatic start that never lets up…
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Review: The Only Living Boy in New York
Read more: Review: The Only Living Boy in New YorkThe Only Living Boy in New York looks like a love story at first glance. By the end it becomes clear it is a story about fathers and sons and about the loss of innocence.
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Watch This: Trailer for The Miracle Season
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for The Miracle SeasonThe Miracle Season is about 2011 the Iowa City West girls’ volleyball team. They took the state championship for the second year in a row. They did it after losing their star player Caroline “Line” Found and after losing their spirit to play without her.
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Review: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Read more: Review: The Death and Life of Marsha P. JohnsonThe Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, a documentary directed by David France, looks back at the death of one of the icons of the gay rights movement.
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Review: Love, Lies and Records
Read more: Review: Love, Lies and RecordsLove, Lies and Records is a British series about Kate, who works in the Leeds registry office. She has a fella and 3 kids at home, a busy work life dealing with births, deaths, and marriages, a confusing man nipping at her heels, and a troublesome coworker named Judy.
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10 Great TV Series Directed Wholly or Partly by Women from 2017
Read more: 10 Great TV Series Directed Wholly or Partly by Women from 2017My standard disclaimer about top 10 end of year lists: there are many things I don’t see on TV because I don’t have the right channels or subscriptions. If I overlook your favorite, that may be why. Here are the best TV shows I saw in 2017 (even if they weren’t released in 2017).
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A Dozen Wonderful Films Directed by Women from 2017
Read more: A Dozen Wonderful Films Directed by Women from 2017I always preface these end of year lists with a disclaimer. I don’t see everything. I don’t subscribe to everything and I don’t go out to the theater weekly. Nobody is telling me what to see or paying me to go see things. I’m just watching what looks good to me. So, with that said,…
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Review: The Hero
Read more: Review: The HeroThe Hero stars Sam Elliott as the aging Western actor Lee Hayden. Sam Elliott is one of the few actors I consider sexy. If you’ve read anything on this blog before, you know that I seldom comment on how sexy some man or other is. But I do with Sam Elliott. Sam Elliott is one…