Tag: Women Directors

  • Signature Move, love and wrestling

    Signature Move, love and wrestling

    Signature Move does a lot of things right, even though it isn’t the best movie ever. It’s a love story and an homage to Lucha Libre and luchadoras.

  • Stay the Night, a slow romance told in one night

    Stay the Night, a slow romance told in one night

    Stay the Night is an everything-happens-in-one-day kind of romance. Two people having their own separate bad days meet in a bar and stumble through a lot together before the morning.

  • Ballard stars Maggie Q in an outstanding mystery series

    Ballard stars Maggie Q in an outstanding mystery series

    Ballard is another mystery series based on novels by Michael Connelly. Maggie Q stars in this one as Det. Renée Ballard who has been stuck in a basement working cold cases with a team of unpaid volunteers.

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review

    On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a rich, textured tale of family secrets revealed during a traditional Zambian funeral. Thematically, it shows how patriarchal systems and customs are enforced by both men and women. There are some spoilers ahead.

  • Ironheart review, not Marvel’s best

    Ironheart review, not Marvel’s best

    Ironheart tells more about Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a character we met in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Just to clear up something right away, it is not about Riri Williams trying to make herself into another Iron Man or replace Tony Stark. There is an iron suit involved, but nobody is displacing Tony Stark in…

  • The Kollective, citizen journalists expose deep fakes

    The Kollective, citizen journalists expose deep fakes

    The Kollective features a group of young citizen journalists who are dedicated to speaking the truth in an age of misinformation. It’s set in locations all over the world as their investigation into a plane crash in the Congo leads them to a group of international incidents.

  • The Old Guard 2 keeps up the fight

    The Old Guard 2 keeps up the fight

    The Old Guard 2 is a continuation of the story of the immortals we met in The Old Guard. A few new characters and twists bring some changes but basically the story remains pretty much the same.

  • Summer of 69 – yes, that 69

    Summer of 69 – yes, that 69

    Summer of 69 from writer and director Jillian Bell is a funny tale about a naive high school girl who thinks knowing how to execute a particular sex activity will land her the boy of her dreams. It sounds like it’s about sex, but it’s really about growing up and making friends.

  • My Mom Jayne is a beautiful documentary

    My Mom Jayne is a beautiful documentary

    My Mom Jayne is a tender, loving exploration by Mariska Hargitay into her famous mother Jayne Mansfield’s life and relationships. Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident when Mariska was only three. Jayne was 34.

  • Art Detectives, new series for cozy mystery fans

    Art Detectives, new series for cozy mystery fans

    Art Detectives is a new cozy mystery series. It’s the kind of who dunnit that features affable, soft spoken police and crimes that don’t involve a lot of swearing and violence.

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