Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Watch This: Trailer for House of Cards season 4
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for House of Cards season 4House of Cards season 4 comes down to Underwood vs. Underwood in this trailer. Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are back as Frank and Claire Underwood in this political drama set in the world’s most ruthless centers of power.
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Lost Girl S5 E12 Judgement Fae
Read more: Lost Girl S5 E12 Judgement FaeIn “Judgement Fae,” episode 12 of season 5 of Lost Girl, we get another of those episodes where things happen by magic, you never know who someone really is, the actors get to act like other characters because their bodies have been overtaken by some Ancient or other, and nothing is what it seems. Many,…
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Review: The Girl in the Book
Read more: Review: The Girl in the BookThe Girl in the Book stars Emily VanCamp and Ana Mulvoy-Ten, who share the role of Alice. Alice was abused and misused as a 14 year-old by an author who became famous using Alice’s life and stolen words to write a best seller. Now Alice has turned 29. Her life is a mess. There are…
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Review: Ayanda and the Mechanic
Read more: Review: Ayanda and the MechanicAyanda and the Mechanic, also called simply Ayanda, is about a charming young woman named Ayanda, played by Fulu Moguvhani in her first role ever. Ayanda lost her father 10 years ago and is trying to preserve his memory by keeping his garage going. This review contains very minor spoilers.
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Orphan Black Season 4 Release Date and Trailer
Read more: Orphan Black Season 4 Release Date and TrailerWe have a date for the premier of Orphan Black season four on BBC America: April 14, 2016. And here’s a trailer!
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Review: Like Sunday Like Rain
Read more: Review: Like Sunday Like RainLike Sunday, Like Rain begins and ends with long stretches of dialog free music. The same melancholy strains of a cello take us into and out of this story about a young woman and a 12 year old boy who share a few weeks one summer and change each other forever. The film synopsis is,…
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Happy Valley S2 E2: Two Funerals and a Fall off the Wagon
Read more: Happy Valley S2 E2: Two Funerals and a Fall off the WagonHappy Valley S2 E2 has a few laughs, a couple of funerals, and a mess of disasters that will tangle future episodes. I’ll keep the review as brief and spoiler free as possible, but there are some spoilers. Catherine (Sarah Lancashire) brings home Ilinka (Ivana Bašić) after a group of Croatian women were rescued from…
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Watch This: Trailer for Confirmation with Kerry Washington
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for Confirmation with Kerry WashingtonConfirmation is an HBO movie about the Anita Hill testimony in the confirmation hearings for now Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Kerry Washington plays Anita Hill in this biopic. Wendell Pierce plays Clarence Thomas.
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Lost Girl S5 E11 Sweet Valkyrie High
Read more: Lost Girl S5 E11 Sweet Valkyrie HighLost Girl episode 11 of season 5 is “Sweet Valkyrie High.” As you might guess from the title, this episode is Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) all the way. Also back after a very long hiatus is Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier) in all her human weakness. There are spoilers everywhere.
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Review: Lila and Eve
Read more: Review: Lila and EveLila and Eve stars Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez. I wanted so much to absolutely love it because of the two stars. How often do you get to see a film with Viola Davis and Jennifer Lopez as the lead characters? Or any women of color? Despite the performances of the two leads, the film…