Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Watch This: Orange is the New Black, season 3 preview
Read more: Watch This: Orange is the New Black, season 3 previewJune 12 is almost here, and the Orange is the New Black media machine is gearing up accordingly. Here’s a new preview for season 3. Last week I was in Texas for my granddaughter’s high school graduation. Afterwards, my family and another family with my granddaughter’s BFF all went out to dinner. We two families…
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Review: Younger
Read more: Review: YoungerYounger begins with a premise: a 40 year old woman is not able to re-enter the job market no matter how skilled she is. But that same woman, if she pretends to be 26, can get a job. Even in a half hour comedy, that premise takes Younger into territory where ageism, sexism, discrimination in…
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A New Report from the Women’s Media Center
Read more: A New Report from the Women’s Media Center“It’s hard to think of anything except air, food and water that is more important than the media. … I’ve spent most of my life working in the media. That has made me hyperaware of how it creates for us the idea of normal, whether or not the normal is accurate. Especially for groups that…
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Orphan Black: S3 E8 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method
Read more: Orphan Black: S3 E8 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in MethodOrphan Black, season 3 episode 8 is “Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method” or, as it could also be called, “Rachel Outsmarts Everyone.” Krystal Goderich I’ll start with the most interesting and important part of this week’s episode, Krystal Goderich (Tatiana Maslany, a multitude). We saw Krystal briefly making out in a hotel elevator…
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Actors on Actors -UPDATED
Read more: Actors on Actors -UPDATEDVariety has created a series of conversations called “Actors on Actors” that are fascinating discussions between peers. Most of them are a man and a woman. I picked these three to include here because both the conversationalists are women, but don’t overlook the others at Variety Studio: Actors on Actors. The women’s conversations are about…
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Watch This: New Preview for Suffragette
Read more: Watch This: New Preview for SuffragetteSuffragette will premier in the U.S. in late October. It’s premiering in early October in the U.K. at the London Film Festival. There’s a new preview available. The film deals with the battle for women’s right to vote in late 19th and early 20th Century in England. Suffragette stars Carey Mulligan and Meryl Streep. Mulligan…
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Orphan Black: S3 E7 Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate
Read more: Orphan Black: S3 E7 Community of Dreadful Fear and HateOrphan Black, episode 7 of season 3, “Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate” is part thriller, part mystery and part slapstick. Most of the episode centers around Alison, (Tatiana Maslany, a multitude) Donnie (Kristian Bruun) and Felix (Jordan Gavaris) at a meeting for the school trustee election. Sarah and Helena Helena and Sarah are in…
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Previews and Video from Complications
Read more: Previews and Video from ComplicationsComplications starts June 18 on USA. It begins with a two-hour premier that should be plenty of time to get people hooked if it’s any good. The star is Jason O’Mara as Dr. John Ellison. The women in the series are all arrayed around him in one way or another – other doctors, his wife,…
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Review: Beyond the Lights
Read more: Review: Beyond the LightsI can’t say enough great things about Beyond the Lights. It is an exceptionally good film. If you haven’t seen it yet, I encourage you to do so. I had the idea that it would merely be a love story. It was a love story, but it has so much more depth than that, which…
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Who’s A Critic Now?
Read more: Who’s A Critic Now?I found this when I was cleaning a file cabinet of old writing. I wrote it almost 20 years ago. I thought it was a hoot to read. Little did I know that one day I would be a blogger doing her best to change the situation.