Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Watch This: Trailer for In Search of Fellini
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for In Search of FelliniIn Search of Fellini stars Ksenia Solo in a story about a shy small-town Ohio girl who loves movies but dislikes reality. She discovers the delightfully bizarre films of Federico Fellini and sets off on a strange, beautiful journey across Italy to find him.
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Review: Mudbound
Read more: Review: MudboundMudbound grabs you from the first moments and won’t let go. It twists you up, wrings you breathless, and spits you out gasping. Finally, whew, finally, it shows you a break in the cloudy skies to let in a beam of sunshine.
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Review: How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town
Read more: Review: How to Plan an Orgy in a Small TownThe Canadian comedy How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town is a romp as funny as the title suggests. The film stars several favorite actors of mine. It’s funny and poignant at the same time.
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Watch This: Trailer for The Breadwinner
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for The BreadwinnerThe Breadwinner is an animated story, ostensibly for kids, although it’s rated PG-13. It’s the story of a young girl who disguises herself as a boy to help her family. It looks like a story about female empowerment that adult women will enjoy, too.
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Great TV Marriages
Read more: Great TV MarriagesHave you been watching The Gifted? I have. One of the things I notice each week is the great marriage between Amy Acker and Stephen Moyer as the parents of two ‘gifted’ teens in this sci fi drama. I haven’t thought much about great TV marriages since Friday Night Lights with Connie Britton and Kyle…
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Review: Their Finest
Read more: Review: Their FinestTheir Finest tells the story of Catrin Cole (Gemma Arterton) who struggles to write the script for a British propaganda film about World War II while living in London during the blitz.
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I Love You, Sally Wainwright
Read more: I Love You, Sally WainwrightI love you, Sally Wainwright. I know it’s a one-sided relationship. I’m the fan. You’re the creative genius behind great television. I know you have other fans. It isn’t an exclusive arrangement I have with you. But, still – I love you.
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Watch This: Trailer for The Post
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for The PostAre you old enough to remember The Pentagon Papers? Just in case that was before your time, they were 700 pages of secret government documents about the Viet Nam War. They made the government look very bad. Very bad. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks star in The Post to tell the story of how those…
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Review: Mindhunter
Read more: Review: MindhunterMindhunter, season 1, is a Netflix original. Set in the late 1970s, it’s about how the FBI began to develop a behavioral sciences division and look at the psychology of psychopaths and serial killers. These were early efforts to understand the criminal mind in days when the killers managed one-offs with a kitchen knife or…
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Brain Dump: Supergirl, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Last Tango in Halifax
Read more: Brain Dump: Supergirl, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Last Tango in HalifaxWhen I have to empty my head of short thoughts on various TV series, I call it a brain dump. This one talks about Supergirl, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and Last Tango in Halifax.