Tag: Women Directors

  • Sally, Sally Ride’s historic and iconic life

    Sally, Sally Ride’s historic and iconic life

    Sally, a biopic about astronaut Sally Ride, tells her story in the normal biopic documentary style using archival footage, photos, interviews, and some actor reenactments. It focuses on the part of her life that stayed hidden from the public until her death, namely the information that she was a lesbian.

  • The Fire Inside, true story of a great athlete

    The Fire Inside, true story of a great athlete

    The Fire Inside tells the story of Claressa Shields and her early life in Flint, Michigan where she trained with a volunteer boxing coach. She’s now considered the world’s greatest woman boxer.

  • We Were Liars, YA story packs a punch

    We Were Liars, YA story packs a punch

    We Were Liars was a slow burn for me. The first episode was mindnumbingly ordinary. But this coming of age story based on a novel by E. Lockhart grows more and more complex, mysterious, and fascinating with each episode as it leads you carefully to a wow of an ending full of surprises.

  • The Women of Brewster Place, back in rotation for Pride month

    The Women of Brewster Place, back in rotation for Pride month

    The Women of Brewster Place is a 36 year old series starring Oprah Winfrey. I remember seeing it back in 1989 when it first came out and thinking it was revolutionary in several ways.

  • Ginny & Georgia, season 3, things get INTENSE

    Ginny & Georgia, season 3, things get INTENSE

    Ginny & Georgia, season 3, starts off with Georgia (Brianne Howey) marrying Mayor Paul (Scott Porter). Finally, Georgia has a good thing happen in her life. Except by the end of the wedding she’s arrested and in jail for murdering the terminally ill neighbor across the street.

  • The Better Sister, a spoiler free review

    The Better Sister, a spoiler free review

    The Better Sister, a mystery series of eight episodes, uses reveals and twists to maintain interest and suspense in this story about family dynamics and loyalty. This review won’t give you any spoilers.

  • Hacks, season 4, that’s show biz

    Hacks, season 4, that’s show biz

    Hacks, season 4, is full of ups and downs, highs and lows. Comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) reaches the pinnacle of success only to throw it away for the sake of friendship and honesty. Then she drowns in the lowest of lows.

  • The Last Showgirl bathes Pamela Anderson in overdue starshine

    The Last Showgirl bathes Pamela Anderson in overdue starshine

    The Last Showgirl finally gives Pamela Anderson a chance to do something besides romp on a beach, and boy does she take the opportunity and run with it. And while I’m talking about brilliant performances, Jamie Lee Curtis turns in one as well.

  • In the Summers, three family summers with Dad

    In the Summers, three family summers with Dad

    In the Summers is an insight into a family as two siblings grow to adulthood. We see only three summers of their lives as they grow and spend time with their highly imperfect father in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

  • Sirens brings something different to your TV screen

    Sirens brings something different to your TV screen

    Sirens explores a lot in just 5 episodes. It asks many questions without answering them. It’s based on the old story about sirens singing so seductively that sailors crashed their boats on the rocky cliffs of the island where the sirens were imprisoned. In this retelling of that old story, we see it from the…