Tag: Women Directors
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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.
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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…
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Jazzy, a film about BFFs and growing up
Jazzy looks at girlhood, best friends, and growing up in a different way. We see the girls from age seven up to about 13 in the film. They are both Lakota tribal members living in a trailer park in a small town in North Dakota.
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The Secret Life of Bees, revisiting an old favorite
The Secret Life of Bees is a perfect rewatch when you’ve reached the end of everything new on all your streamers. It stars a gaggle of women, and was written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from a novel by Sue Monk Kidd.
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Étoile, a triumph of a series
Étoile looks like a story about ballet, but it’s really a series full of funny characters, weirdos, outcasts, big egos, and rampant artistic temperament. The series was created by Daniel Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino who directed most of the episodes as well. It’s already set for a second season and I can’t wait to see…
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Forever, Judy Blume’s teen drama reimagined
Forever takes Judy Blume’s novel of the same name and reworks it as a tender story of growing up and coming of age between two Black teens in LA in their last years of high school. The series was created by Mara Brock Akil with Judy Blume as one of the producers.
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The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriages
The Four Seasons remakes the 1981 classic by Alan Alda into a modernized TV series created by Tina Fey and Lang Fisher. It stays close to the original thematically as it deals with three couples and their marriages through four vacations in four seasons of the year.
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Good American Family dramatizes a true story
Good American Family tells the Natalia Grace story from several viewpoints. The truth is subjective, depending on who is telling the story. The series starring Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass makes no judgements about which version is accurate, but it does lay out the facts.
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The Glass Dome review, a Skandi noir mini series
The Glass Dome brings dark Skandi noir to Netflix in a mini series about abducted children who were kept in a glass box like specimens.
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The Crowded Room teems with personality
The Crowded Room is hard to talk about without giving away the secret it tries to hide for the first five of its ten episodes. I can tell you that it’s a fascinating, complicated psychological drama and well worth watching. Tom Holland is brilliant in this, and so is Amanda Seyfried. With that said, I…