Reviews of movies and TV focused on women

Tag: Marisa Tomei

  • Revisiting All in the Family and the Jeffersons

    Revisiting All in the Family and the Jeffersons

    ABC’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience with its iconic episodes of All in the Family and The Jeffersons brought up a lot for me.

  • Review: The Handmaid’s Tale, season 2

    Review: The Handmaid’s Tale, season 2

    I’ll say it right off the mark: I didn’t think season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale was as strong as season 1. I’m not sure I can pinpoint why, but I’ll offer several theories as to why anyway. You can join in with a comment if you think you have a better sense of why. […]

  • HBO Discovers Women: Will I Have to Subscribe?

    HBO Discovers Women: Will I Have to Subscribe?

    HBO is coming out with a new app for Apple TV, iPad and iPhone called HBO Now that subscribes to all the HBO content for $15 a month. I may have to consider using it, because HBO has suddenly discovered women.

  • Review: Unhook the Stars

    Review: Unhook the Stars

    Unhook the Stars is from 1996, and it’s a gem. I completely recommend it to you. The film features Gena Rowlands as Mildred, the widowed mother of two adult children and the neighbor of Monica (Marisa Tomei) and her son J.J. (Jake Lloyd). When the film begins, Mildred is a buttoned down suburban housewife with […]

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