Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Review: W1A
Read more: Review: W1AW1A is a British comedy from the BBC that makes fun of the BBC. I watched it because I knew Nina Sosanya was in it, and seeing her was worth it.
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Watch This: Official Trailer for Season 4 of Longmire
Read more: Watch This: Official Trailer for Season 4 of LongmireThe official trailer for season 4 of Longmire came from Netflix. Season 4 centers on Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) after finding out who was behind the murder of his wife. He wants to find the killer and take justice into his own hands. I ran a teaser trailer earlier here, but it was mostly rehashed…
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Send Sally Wainwright a Question
Read more: Send Sally Wainwright a QuestionSally Wainwright, who wrote such popular British TV series as Last Tango in Halifax, Happy Valley, and Scott & Bailey will be appearing at an event this month. She’ll be taking questions. Send your question to info@squarechapel.co.uk using the subject line “Sally Wainwright.” The event is on Sept. 30 and is billed as “Sally Wainwright…
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Watch This: Trailer for Breathe
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for BreatheBreathe is a film from actress-turned-director Mélanie Laurent (Inglorious Basterds, Beginnings). It’s in French with English subtitles and will be released in the US in late September. Joséphine Japy and Lou De Laâge as two young girls whose all-consuming friendship takes a dark turn. Here’s the film synopsis: A taut, nuanced story about the depths…
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Watch This: Trailer for Miss You Already
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for Miss You AlreadyMiss You Already stars power pair Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore in a drama about best friends. Dominic Cooper and Paddy Considine play the men in the lives of these two friends. The synopsis reads, “Miss You Already is an honest and powerful story following two best friends, Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore),…
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Watch This: Trailer for The Danish Girl
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for The Danish GirlThe Danish Girl stars Eddie Redmayne as Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender persons to have sex-reassignment surgery. Alicia Vikander plays Lili’s wife, Gerda Wegener. Both were artists. The surgery took place in 1920s, but the story begins before that. We are going back to the beginning of the transgender movement and transgender acceptance…
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45 Years and Still Having Sex
Read more: 45 Years and Still Having Sex45 Years is a British drama about a couple preparing for a 45th anniversary of their wedding. Here’s the synopsis.
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Review: Fear The Walking Dead
Read more: Review: Fear The Walking DeadFear The Walking Dead is a 9 episode prequel to The Walking Dead and currently showing on AMC prior to the opening of the new season of The Walking Dead. So far, there have been two episodes. This series is set in Los Angeles at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse we’ve seen so much…
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Watch This: Trailer for He Named Me Malala
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for He Named Me MalalaHe Named Me Malala is a documentary by Davis Guggenheim about Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai. After the Taliban tried to kill her for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education, Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai emerged as a leading advocate for children’s rights and the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Now 18, Malala is…
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The New Season on Independent Lens
Read more: The New Season on Independent LensIt made the news when Lois Vossen was promoted to executive producer of the PBS documentary series Independent Lens. That makes Vossen one of the top ranking people at PBS. The series she’ll head caught my attention when I saw the articles about her promotion. The commitment to independent film she talks about is wonderful…