Tag: Women Directors

  • Review: About Scout

    Review: About Scout

    About Scout is a warm-hearted story about family, friendship and acceptance set in the most harrowing of circumstances. Spoilers ahead.

  • Darby Stanchfield Directs Scandal: Gladiator Wanted Web Series

    Darby Stanchfield Directs Scandal: Gladiator Wanted Web Series

    Darby Stanchfield is moving herself into the director’s chair. She’s normally in front of the camera in Scandal. In this short 6 part web series, Scandal: Gladiator Wanted, the Scandal team is looking for a new Gladiator, and Darby Stanchfield is directing. You can view the series any time on abc.com.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Jasper Jones

    Watch This: Trailer for Jasper Jones

    Jasper Jones is an Australian mystery starring Toni Collette, Levi Miller and Aaron L. McGrath in a tale compared to To Kill a Mockingbird for its racial underpinnings. It’s a murder mystery which uncovers the overt and covert racism in the 1960s Western Australia.

  • One Day at a Time, season 1

    One Day at a Time, season 1

    One Day at a Time is a new imagining of the long-running series of the same name from the 70s and 80s. It’s streaming now on Netflix. Some things remain the same, some things are different. The new version is as charming and funny as its ancestor.

  • Review: I Dream Too Much

    Review: I Dream Too Much

    I Dream Too Much is a coming of age story about 20-year-old Dora (Eden Brolin). I almost abandoned the immature but charming Dora in the first few minutes, but I held on. I was rewarded with a good story. Minor spoilers ahead. 

  • Review: Belle

    Review: Belle

    Belle tells the story of a mixed-race woman raised as an aristocrat in 18th Century England. The political overtones of the story are as relevant today as they were then.

  • Review: Her Story

    Review: Her Story

    Her Story is a web series about the T in LGBTQ. Transgender people and their problems are often overlooked by both the LGBTQ community and the larger society as well. Web series like this one can help change that.

  • Sense8 E2.1 A Christmas Special

    Sense8 E2.1 A Christmas Special

    The two hour Sense8 Christmas special takes us on a tour of the lives of the 8 characters since the big blow up in Iceland and since Will (Brian J. Smith) looked into Mr. Whisper’s (Terrence Mann) eyes.

  • Watch This: Trailer for Sophie and the Rising Sun

    Watch This: Trailer for Sophie and the Rising Sun

    Sophie and the Rising Sun is a tale of interracial love during WW II. As you know, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entered WW II, American discrimination against anyone of Japanese extraction grew to a fever pitch. Most Japanese Americans were hauled off to internment camps. Flash forward 70 years, and…

  • Last Tango in Halifax S4 E2 The Christmas Special Pt. 2

    Last Tango in Halifax S4 E2 The Christmas Special Pt. 2

    Last Tango in Halifax S4 E2 is Part Two of The Christmas Special. Holy Moly! What an episode! Stirring, momentous scenes between Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) and Gillian (Nicola Walker) and between Gillian and Robbie (Dean Andrews). Beware the spoilers.