Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: All About E
Read more: Review: All About EAustralian writer and director Louise Wadley brings us All About E, a story about an Arabic-Australian woman and her efforts to figure out her life. This effort includes losing love because of being closeted to her family, having lots of sex as a very cool DJ, absconding with a bag of money for a long…
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Watch This: Trailer for Maggie’s Plan
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for Maggie’s PlanMaggie’s Plan has a great cast, a female writer and director, and a plot idea that seems original in concept. Here’s the plot synopsis:
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Review: Echo Park
Read more: Review: Echo ParkEcho Park is Sophia’s (Mamie Gummer) story. We find her at a point in her life when she questions everything, she shakes up everything, and she turns a 180 on the way she’s been living. There are spoilers ahead.
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Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 2
Read more: Review: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 2Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 2 has 13 short episodes of the same madcap buffoonery we saw in season 1. It does move the story along and show character growth and some hidden depths. You must dig through the comedy to find the message, however. There are spoilers ahead.
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Review: Confirmation, with a dash of Lemonade
Read more: Review: Confirmation, with a dash of LemonadeI never thought I’d see Confirmation since I don’t have HBO, but Dish had a promotion going to get people to watch HBO and Showtime all weekend. The only thing I wanted to see on HBO was Kerry Washington as Anita Hill in the film Confirmation.
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Orphan Black S4E2: Transgressive Border Crossing
Read more: Orphan Black S4E2: Transgressive Border CrossingOrphan Black season 4 episode 2 “Transgressive Border Crossing” begins with Mika’s (Tatiana Maslany – everywoman) phone call to Sarah in Iceland telling her to run because the neolutionists are coming after Kendall Malone (Alison Steadman). She runs. Spoilers ahead.
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Watch This: Trailer for The Girl on the Train
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for The Girl on the TrainThe Girl on the Train stars Emily Blunt in a tale based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel by the same name. I fell in love with Emily Blunt way back in Sunshine Cleaning in that exact moment when she climbed up a wobbly wooden train trestle as a train thundered overhead. I haven’t found any…
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The Competent Female Sidekick Trope
Read more: The Competent Female Sidekick TropeI want to point out some interesting work from other sites today. The first is a short video that I found on whohaha.com. (If you haven’t subscribed to WhoHaHa yet, you really must.) The video is from Saturday Night Live and a bit gross, but give it a chance.
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Review: Hello, My Name is Doris
Read more: Review: Hello, My Name is DorisHello, My Name is Doris starring Sally Field is an absolutely fabulous film in so many ways. Sally Field, as Doris, gives a fantastic performance. Is it better than her performances in Norma Rae or Places in the Heart? Maybe not, but it is 100% on the mark in creating the peculiar, unique individual known…
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Orphan Black S4E1: The Collapse of Nature
Read more: Orphan Black S4E1: The Collapse of NatureOrphan Black season 4 episode 1 is “The Collapse of Nature.” It gives us Beth’s (Tatiana Maslany AKA everyone) story as an extended flashback and then brings us back to the present where Sarah is hanging out in Iceland.