Tag: Origin

  • My 20 top rated movies and TV shows of 2024

    My 20 top rated movies and TV shows of 2024

    Time for a 2024 wrap up. If you’ve been here before, you know this website is dedicated to finding work by women directors and women leading actors to feature. The “best of” lists you see elsewhere don’t match this criteria, so my lists are always different. Here are the top 20 movies and TV shows…

  • Origin, another masterwork from Ava DuVernay

    Origin, another masterwork from Ava DuVernay

    Origin, from writer and director Ava DuVernay, is another masterwork from one of America’s greatest directors. The movie is an adaptation of the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. The book itself is a scholarly work with copious footnotes and appendices. Ava DuVernay made the movie about Isabel Wilkerson’s journey in…

  • Watch This: Trailer for Origin, a YouTube Original

    Watch This: Trailer for Origin, a YouTube Original

    YouTube is promoting Origin, one of the offerings from its new YouTube Premium subscription, to tempt viewers to join the service. Origin looks like a well done space adventure, and it may do the trick of bringing in new subscribers.

  • Recap: Lost Girl S4, E12 Origin

    Recap: Lost Girl S4, E12 Origin

    The world has gone mad today And good’s bad today, And black’s white today, And day’s night today – Cole Porter Cole Porter might have added “And trust’s not right today” to that song to fit what Bo in Lost Girl. She’s giving her trust – and her power – to the wrong people. People…