Tag: Thomasin McKenzie
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Life after Life review, something different from the BBC
Life after Life is a 4 part fantasy/magical realism drama from the BBC. It’s about a British woman named Ursula who dies and is reborn again and again, each time changing her life and circumstances in different ways.
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Joy review: the birth of IVF
Joy is based on the true story of how IVF came to be. It documents several years of struggle that a scientist, a gynecologist, and a nurse went through to find a way to make it work and see the first child born of IVF. Since then over 12 million babies have been born by…
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Totally Completely Fine, outstanding dark comedy from Australia
Totally Completely Fine brings Australian dark comedy to a series about a family struggling with grief. It’s an excellent series with outstanding writing and beautiful performances from a big ensemble cast.
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Eileen review: dark psychological chills and thrills
Eileen is a disconcerting psychological drama featuring stellar performances from Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie. These are dark characters who exist in a dreary world. Their story is not a happy one and the ending is inconclusive.
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Last Night in Soho, a horror show with great music
Last Night in Soho is an exciting and surreal horror/mystery film about an aspiring fashion designer who finds herself in a 1960s dreamscape full of murder and gruesome herds of ghosts.
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Review: Lost Girls
Lost Girls tells the story of a mom searching for her missing daughter. From director Liz Garbus, the film is inspired by true events detailed in Robert Kolker’s “Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery.”
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My Leave No Trace post at #DirectedbyWomen
#DirectedbyWomen has another ambitious project going. It’s Crucial 21st Century Cinema or #Crucial21DbW. The project’s creator Barbara Ann O’Leary wants to publish a guest blogger’s post about a film directed by a woman every day in 2019.