Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: Hinterland season 1
Read more: Review: Hinterland season 1Hinterland is available on US Netflix. There are 4 episodes in Season 1, each an hour and a half long. Each episode is actually a full movie. The plots and stories are as complicated as you might expect in a police procedural mystery of that length. This review is of season 1 only.
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Watch This: Trailer for Imba Means Sing
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for Imba Means SingImba Means Sing is a documentary about one boy, Moses, in the African Children’s Choir. Here’s the story.
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Friends and Lovers on Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Read more: Friends and Lovers on Marvel’s Jessica JonesBefore Jessica Jones began, there was speculation that the relationship between Jessica Jones (Kysten Ritter) and Trish “Patsy” Walker (Rachael Taylor) was a sexual one. It is not.
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Review: The Girl King
Read more: Review: The Girl KingMalin Buska stars as Kristina, Queen of Sweden, in The Girl King. I found it an uplifting story about love and power and being true to yourself. It didn’t have a romantically happy ending, but no lesbians died in the telling of the story. That’s a good thing. Spoilers ahead. Kristina was queen from age…
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Transparent Season 2 Episode 1: Let the Pfeffermans Begin
Read more: Transparent Season 2 Episode 1: Let the Pfeffermans BeginTransparent gave Amazon Prime members an early preview with the release of season 2, episode 1 yesterday. The remainer of the season will be available on December 11. I don’t plan to review or recap each episode individually, but I couldn’t resist commenting on the early release episode 1. I’ll write about the season as…