Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Watch This: Trailer for My Old Lady
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for My Old LadyMy Old Lady stars Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith and Kristen Scott Thomas. Kevin Kline inherits a Paris apartment from his estranged father. When he goes to France to claim it, he finds he cannot sell it until the current inhabitant – Maggie Smith – dies. Kristen Scott Thomas plays Maggie Smith’s daughter. That two fabulous…
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Watch This: Trailer for Boyhood
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for BoyhoodBoyhood shows us 12 years of Mason’s life, from age 6 to age 18. It took 12 years to film. The remarkable project – conceived, written and directed by Richard Linklater – was filmed by getting the cast together once a year every year for 12 years. Ellar Coltrane plays the boy. Patricia Arquette is…
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Show Some Support for Season 1 of Black Box
Read more: Show Some Support for Season 1 of Black BoxSeason 1 of Black Box is 10 episodes in. I want to comment on the series before the season is over, because I hope it will be renewed. Black Box is about Dr. Catherine Black (Kelly Reilly), a brilliant neuroscientist who hides her bipolar disease from her peers. Her therapist is played by Vanessa Redgrave.…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax S2, E3
Read more: Recap: Last Tango in Halifax S2, E3This episode of Last Tango in Halifax opens with the two great granddads (Derek Jacobi and Paul Copley) as well as Alan’s other sidekick (Roy Barraclough) with the baby at the pub. They talk about what the little girl should be named. Both of Alan’s sidekicks think they were asked to be the best man…
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Mini-Tatiana in a Clone Dance Party
Read more: Mini-Tatiana in a Clone Dance PartyCynthia Galant, who up to now has played both the young Rachel and Dr. Marian Bowles’ daughter Charlotte on Orphan Black watched the clone dance party with so much interest she decided to make one herself. If the clones had met at age 8, here’s how it would go. The mini-clone dance party! A budding…
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Hollywood, Why Don’t You Understand the Facts?
Read more: Hollywood, Why Don’t You Understand the Facts?When it comes to making money, it sometimes feels as if Hollywood is completely ignores the facts. In terms of hard numbers and dollars and cents, reality is all around, but Hollywood doesn’t see it. Hollywood is like those climate change deniers: their minds are made up so don’t bore them with facts. Movies with…
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Review: Now is Good
Read more: Review: Now is GoodNow is Good one of those films in the genre young woman dying of cancer. If there isn’t a genre called that there should be because films about it are plentiful. Don’t let that put you off, however. This film is beautifully directed, well acted, and heartwarming in many ways. Spoilers ahead.
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Review: Don Jon
Read more: Review: Don JonDon Jon is an oddly sensitive film that ultimately has a good message. The message, however, is delivered in a complete man ‘splaining way. This makes it a man’s film much more than a woman’s film. We go through a lot with Jon, the don of sex, for him to learn something that women already…
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Recap: Last Tango in Halifax, S2, E2
Read more: Recap: Last Tango in Halifax, S2, E2At the registry office, Celia (Anne Reid) sits in a very pretty suit clutching a bouquet as episode 2 of Last Tango in Halifax begins. We’re mere minutes from the end of episode 1 when Gillian ran out the farmhouse door after finding the card from the Registry Office. A man in an apron sits…
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Watch This: Trailer for The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Read more: Watch This: Trailer for The Disappearance of Eleanor RigbyThe Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them releases in September. The film stars James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain in a love story with a twist. It’s told from different perspectives in three versions. There is his perspective, her perspective and their perspective, to create three totally different films. The films are directed and written by Ned…