Tag: LGBTQ+
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Sunny Nights – comedy, mystery and mayhem
Sunny Nights is part comedy, part mystery and completely bonkers. It’s about two American siblings (Will Forte and D’Arcy Carden) who are in Australia to start a spray tan business.
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My Mother’s Wedding, a weekend with the family
My Mother’s Wedding brings three women home for their twice-widowed mother’s third wedding. It’s a weekend filled with family love and family squabbles. Kristen Scott Thomas directed and co-wrote the screenplay with John Micklethwait. The film is a memoir-ish tribute to her own two father figures.
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Honey Don’t! another Ethan Coen lesbian B-movie
Honey Don’t! is the second film in a trilogy from director Ethan Coen and co-writer Tricia Cooke. They are calling the films in their trilogy lesbian B-movies, but I think they should be calling them “lezsploitation.”
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When Fall is Coming, surprising French family drama
When Fall is Coming (Quand vient l’automne) tells a touching story about a French family and a relationship between a grandmother and her grandson. Clever turns and twists makes this unusual story a winner.
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Four films, indies, and genre work
Nothing new or extra good has crossed my path this past week. Instead I’ve been roaming among the indies and smaller films looking for something to watch. I didn’t find anything great, but I watched several fair to middlin’ things that I’ll give a short review about.
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The Lady’s Companion, period comedy from Spain
The Lady’s Companion (Manual para señoritas) is a little bit Bridgerton, a little bit Jane the Virgin, a little bit Fleabag, and a little bit plain old romcom. Set in Madrid in the 1880s in an upper class world where young ladies had companions who chaperoned their every interaction with the opposite sex, we follow…
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I’ll Be Right There review: when family is a comedy
I’ll Be Right There stars Edie Falco as Wanda, a sandwich generation superstar. Her mom is demanding, her two kids are demanding, and her response to every cry for help is “I’ll be right there.” Is her life an unhealthy, codependent comedy of errors, or is it all she ever wanted?
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Challengers review: the girl is the game
Challengers tells a sports story about tennis and a trio of people who live in that world. The tennis, the love, the competition, the ambition, and the sex all triangles around Zendaya as Tashi. Tashi is a tennis great who injures her knee and becomes a coach.
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My Old Ass review: touching and tender coming of age
My Old Ass is a coming of age story with fantasy notes and a powerful motif about appreciating the everyday moments in life. It stars Maisy Stella as 18 year old Elliott, about to leave for college. She gets high on mushrooms with her girlfriends and meets her 39 year old self, played by Aubrey…