Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Brain Dump: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, The Good Wife, Covert Affairs, Person of Interest
Read more: Brain Dump: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, The Good Wife, Covert Affairs, Person of InterestA brain dump about this and that. Join in with a comment. We’ll hit on Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a not-so-new comer, the series The Good Wife, Covert Affairs, and Person of Interest.
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Join the Demand for Better Media
Read more: Join the Demand for Better MediaYou can join this movement and take the pledge here. I did. It’s easy. There is so much good information on The Representation Project website. I hope you’ll take a look around. After I signed the pledge, I received an email listing ways individuals can take action to change the media representation of men and…
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Lost Girl: S5, E5 It’s Your Lucky Fae
Read more: Lost Girl: S5, E5 It’s Your Lucky FaeIt’s Bo’s (Anna Silk) birthday in the “It’s Your Lucky Fae” episode of Lost Girl. She gets some unusual presents. Kudos to the writer of this episode, Ley Lukins, because this is one of the funniest Lost Girls ever, and there have been some very funny things on Lost Girl. Enormous spoilers ahead. Bo stares…
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Brain Dump: A Wife’s Nightmare, Annie, On My Way, Into the Woods
Read more: Brain Dump: A Wife’s Nightmare, Annie, On My Way, Into the WoodsIt’s time for a brain dump. My brain is teeming with thoughts about this and that – mostly movies I watched over the holidays. Short thoughts. Thoughts so short that combining them into one post seems like a grand idea.
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Review: The Imitation Game
Read more: Review: The Imitation GameThe Imitation Game stars Benedict Cumberbatch as English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing. Turing helped crack the Enigma machine, a Nazi encryption device. He developed a code breaking machine which has come to be known as the computer. Spoilers ahead.
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Dicte: A Danish series about a Crime Reporter
Read more: Dicte: A Danish series about a Crime ReporterNetflix is now streaming the Danish series Dicte. The series is named for the title character, Dicte Svendsen, played by Iben Hjejle. Dicte is a crime reporter who goes back to her hometown of Aarhus after a divorce. She has an 18 year old daughter named Rose (Emilie Kruse) and an ex-husband (Lars Ranthe) who…
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Lost Girl S5 E4 When God Opens a Window
Read more: Lost Girl S5 E4 When God Opens a WindowLost Girl episode 4 is “When God Opens a Window.” And a helluva window it is. Big surprise, big mistakes, big lies, big anger. But the good news is that Vex (Paul Amos) and Evony (Emmanuelle Vaugier) are back. Spoilers ahead. Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) was supposed to take weapons to Bo (Anna Silk) but instead…
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Orphan Black Season 3 Teaser and Premier Date
Read more: Orphan Black Season 3 Teaser and Premier DateWe have a date for the premier of season 3 of Orphan Black. April 18, 2015. And we have another clever teaser for the upcoming series. This one shows Tatiana Maslany killing it as she plays one clone pretending to be another clone. So far the teasers for season 3 have mostly been reworked bits…
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New Previews for The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Read more: New Previews for The Second Best Exotic Marigold HotelThe Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel will release in late March 2015 in the US. I will be there, ready to be delighted by this wonderful cast and charming story. New in this edition of the story will be Richerd Gere, Tamsin Greig and David Strathairn. Still around are Dev Patel, Maggie Smith, Tina Desai,…
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Lost Girl S5 E3: Big in Japan
Read more: Lost Girl S5 E3: Big in Japan“Big in Japan” is episode 3 of season 5 of Lost Girl. Tamsin (Rachel Skarsten) is taking Kenzi’s (Ksenia Solo) place as Bo’s (Anna Silk) bestie. It had to happen that way, but, dang, I miss Kenzi. I’ll recap the episode in pictures. Many spoilers ahead. Bo is redecorating. Painting, hanging drapes. Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried)…