Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: The Five
Read more: Review: The FiveThe Five on Netflix has a lot going for it. Harlan Coben created it. It’s from Red Production Company and produced by Karen Lewis – the same folks who bring us Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley. The star is Tom Cullen, a big selling point.
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Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Read more: Review: First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia RemembersFirst They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers from director Angelina Jolie is a child’s experience of the genocide in Cambodia during the reign of the Khmer Rouge.
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Watch This: Trailer for Red Sparrow
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for Red SparrowRed Sparrow stars Jennifer Lawrence in a thriller about a Russian ballerina turned spy.
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Review: Better Things, Season 1
Read more: Review: Better Things, Season 1Better Things didn’t exist as far as I knew. I seldom watch FX so I hadn’t seen teasers for it. I kept hearing this name Pamela Adlon in connection with other things. I thought who the heck is Pamela Adlon? Then I read an ecstatic review of the first two episodes of season 2 of…
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Review: Top of the Lake China Girl
Read more: Review: Top of the Lake China GirlTop of the Lake China Girl was part disappointment and part perfection. There were far too many crazy or near crazy characters and far too much inexplicable behavior from the closer to sane characters. Beware the spoilers.
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Review: Carrie Pilby
Read more: Review: Carrie PilbyCarrie Pilby is about a 19 year old woman living alone in NYC. She graduated from Harvard at the age of 18 and she’s struggling to figure out what to do with her life.
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New Research: Seniors on the Small Screen
Read more: New Research: Seniors on the Small ScreenA new report from the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative underscores just how lacking U.S. television is in faces over the age of 60. Titled “Seniors on the Small Screen,” the study was “comprised of two samples of popular television series airing between June 1, 2016 and May 31, 2017. Popularity was determined based…
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Review: Season 1 of The Good Place
Read more: Review: Season 1 of The Good PlaceThe Good Place is a half hour comedy series on NBC about ethics in the afterlife. That sentence probably doesn’t compute, but this series explores the idea of what makes a good person with a lot of quotes from Plato, Kant, and other moral philosophers thrown into the mix. But that’s not all. It’s funny,…
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Review: What Happened to Monday
Read more: Review: What Happened to MondayI have mixed emotions about What Happened to Monday. Some things about it were well done, and some were disappointing. The film is streaming on Netflix now, so you can take a look and make up your own mind.
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Review: Season 2 of One Mississippi
Read more: Review: Season 2 of One MississippiSeason 2 of One Mississippi is on Amazon Video. Tig Notaro – with Diablo Cody – created this comedy/drama based loosely on Tig’s own life.