Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Watch This: Trailer for Eye in the Sky
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for Eye in the SkyExcept for the star Helen Mirren, Eye in the Sky isn’t my usual movie type to promote. This military thriller explores some important current moral issues, however, and that makes it interesting to me. Eye in the Sky deals with drone warfare. The US uses drones to kill people almost every day. It isn’t something…
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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: Sisters Featurettes, Trailers and First Looks
Read more: Watch This: Sisters Featurettes, Trailers and First LooksSisters is coming! December 18! Tina Fey. Amy Poehler. Maya Rudolph. Run, don’t walk to your nearest multiplex to watch this film! You want more funny people? Those three aren’t enough? Cripes. Okay, here they are: John Cena, John Leguizamo, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin, Kate McKinnon, Madison Davenport, Adrian Martinez, Dianne Wiest, Heather Matarazzo and…
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Listening, Hollywood Pooh-Bahs?
Read more: Listening, Hollywood Pooh-Bahs?How likely is this?
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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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Barbra Streisand Set to Direct Catherine the Great
Read more: Barbra Streisand Set to Direct Catherine the GreatI’ve been angry about Barbra Streisand not getting a directing Oscar since 1984 when she was snubbed as the director of Yentl. Since then she directed The Prince of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces, and a couple of TV specials.
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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…