Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Forever, Judy Blume’s teen drama reimagined
Read more: Forever, Judy Blume’s teen drama reimaginedForever takes Judy Blume’s novel of the same name and reworks it as a tender story of growing up and coming of age between two Black teens in LA in their last years of high school. The series was created by Mara Brock Akil with Judy Blume as one of the producers.
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Magpie looks at a failing marriage
Read more: Magpie looks at a failing marriageMagpie takes place inside a marriage. It’s based on an idea the lead actor, Daisy Ridley, had. She produced the film and her husband Tom Bateman wrote the script. Daisy Ridley really wrung this one out with an uncomfortable look at a bad marriage and a clever and rewarding ending.
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Exterritorial, woman led action movie
Read more: Exterritorial, woman led action movieExterritorial is an action movie built around a mother who claims her son was kidnapped inside the American Embassy in Germany when they were seeking passports. There’s plenty of gaslighting in the plot, aided by the mother’s PTSD from her time as a soldier. There’s also a strong thread of a mother who will never…
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Nonnas review, a sweetheart of a story
Read more: Nonnas review, a sweetheart of a storyNonnas tells a heartwarming story about true events. It all started with a love of traditional Italian family home cooking and evolved into a restaurant where all the cooks were real nonnas (grandmothers).
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The Last Anniversary, Australian series from a novel by Liane Moriarty
Read more: The Last Anniversary, Australian series from a novel by Liane MoriartyThe Last Anniversary is a new favorite for me. I always enjoy books and series from Liane Moriarty, and this one was outstanding. It’s a story about family, the resilience of women, and finding love.
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Black Bag, a delightful spy thriller
Read more: Black Bag, a delightful spy thrillerIn Black Bag Cate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender are married spies in British intelligence. They spy on each other, on their work colleagues, and on the world. They’re chess masters manipulating the players and the moves on a life and death global chess board.
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Another Simple Favor, it’s one obsession after another
Read more: Another Simple Favor, it’s one obsession after anotherAnother Simple Favor again brings Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick together in a crazy twisty plot about murder. The not-so-secret Sapphic attraction between them still simmers in the background, but gets even crazier.
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The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriages
Read more: The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriagesThe Four Seasons remakes the 1981 classic by Alan Alda into a modernized TV series created by Tina Fey and Lang Fisher. It stays close to the original thematically as it deals with three couples and their marriages through four vacations in four seasons of the year.
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Good American Family dramatizes a true story
Read more: Good American Family dramatizes a true storyGood American Family tells the Natalia Grace story from several viewpoints. The truth is subjective, depending on who is telling the story. The series starring Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass makes no judgements about which version is accurate, but it does lay out the facts.