Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Leona, character study of a free spirit
Read more: Leona, character study of a free spiritIn Leona, a Jewish woman living in Mexico City, an artist, finds herself struggling with her love for a non-Jewish man. She was a free spirited soul who didn’t especially want the traditional path of most women in her community.
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Everything’s Trash, new comedy with Phoebe Robinson
Read more: Everything’s Trash, new comedy with Phoebe RobinsonEverything’s Trash is a new comedy on Freeform (and Hulu) about a podcaster who shares her life in a podcast she calls Everything’s Trash. It’s not perfect, but it has a good core and personality.
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Prey, this prey vs. predator story is a winner
Read more: Prey, this prey vs. predator story is a winnerPrey is two kinds of origin stories. One takes us back 300 years to an early arrival of a Predator on earth in a story that precedes a long string of Predator movies. The second is the coming of age/origin of a Comanche hero, a young woman named Naru, played by Native American actor Amber…
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Asking For It, an edgy women-take-back-power drama
Read more: Asking For It, an edgy women-take-back-power dramaAsking For It puts a group of women together who have been misused, mistreated, and damaged by men. They find ways to take revenge on their tormentors and on men who hurt women in general.
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Not Okay, when fake influencers get caught out
Read more: Not Okay, when fake influencers get caught outNot Okay is about a woman who lied her way to internet fame, then crashed and burned. This message film uses darkly satirical comedy with underpinnings from our broken celebrity culture. The dark comedy begins even before the movie starts with a warning, “This film contains an unlikeable female protagonist. Viewer discretion advised.” There are…
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Rant: Show me the ending, you rotten streamers
Read more: Rant: Show me the ending, you rotten streamersThe reason I get so upset with streamers who don’t give you all the episodes of a mini-series from the start finally occurred to me. I was writing a review of Surface when it happened.
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Surface, episodes 1-3, a great beginning
Read more: Surface, episodes 1-3, a great beginningSurface is a thriller/mystery starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw. The first 3 episodes were released on premier day (7/29/22), with more to come weekly. First let me say Surface looks super good. Secondly, it makes me mad as hell that we have to wait weeks to reach the resolution of this story. I am so hooked on…
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Paper Girls: pre-teen girls find strength in numbers
Read more: Paper Girls: pre-teen girls find strength in numbersPaper Girls is a time travel sci-fi drama based on a comic book series by Cliff Chiang. Four 12 year old girls out on their bikes delivering papers in the pre-dawn hours in 1988 get caught in a time warp and travel to 2019.