Tag: Women Directors

  • Buffaloed: a manic Zoey Deutch in top form

    Buffaloed: a manic Zoey Deutch in top form

    Buffaloed is a chaotic comedy starring Zoey Deutch in a frantic quest for the biggest, best, money making scheme she can find. All she wants to do is make money.

  • Kleo, Germany gives us another delightful assassin

    Kleo, Germany gives us another delightful assassin

    Kleo owes everything to Killing Eve and the creative imagination of Phoebe Waller Bridge and Luke Jennings. Creator Hanno Hackfort, to his credit, took the idea and made it uniquely different while retaining the humor, style, and charm of the original concept.

  • Look Both Ways, make a choice

    Look Both Ways, make a choice

    Look Both Ways is a cheerful comedy/fantasy/romance about making choices in life and how they work out. The message seemed to be that one way or another, life works out.

  • Echoes, twins make mayhem

    Echoes, twins make mayhem

    Echoes is about twins. One is good, one is bad. They swap identities regularly so you never know if you’re looking at the good one or the bad one. The series was created by Vanessa Gazy and used all women directors.

  • Wow! 6 women powered, women empowered, shows in recent weeks

    Wow! 6 women powered, women empowered, shows in recent weeks

    In the past month or so, I’ve seen several outstanding movies and TV series that are written by or directed by women and that star women in roles where they either hold or take the power. I know I’m forgetting some or haven’t seen everything, so feel free to suggest more in the comments.

  • Butterfly Breath (Pili Pala) brings tense Welsh drama

    Butterfly Breath (Pili Pala) brings tense Welsh drama

    Butterfly Breath (Pili Pala) is a 2019 Welsh mini-series, just now making its way to stream on Acorn TV. It’s the story of a few fraught, life-changing days in the lives of four friends. The stress is high for these characters as they work through the situation. There will be some spoilers ahead to summarize…

  • Hustlers, worth the wait, worth the watch

    Hustlers, worth the wait, worth the watch

    Hustlers has been on my ‘watchlist’ for a long time. I didn’t get to see it in a theater and it was never on a streamer that I subscribe to. But now it’s on Hulu, which means I finally got to watch it. It was worth the wait.

  • Darlings, an abused wife fights back

    Darlings, an abused wife fights back

    Darlings, a Hindi language film from India, tells the story of how an abused wife dealt with her torturer. This female directed film (Jasmeet K Reen directed) stars popular actress Alia Bhatt. There are minor spoilers ahead.

  • Moonhaven, even on the Moon, humans are gonna human

    Moonhaven, even on the Moon, humans are gonna human

    Moonhaven is a sci-fi tale set 100 years in the future. A colony created on the Moon had been working for the last 100 years to create the technology and culture that would save the nearly unlivable Earth. Mooners were ready to go back to Earth to spread the goodness around.

  • A League of Their Own, this remake bats 1.000

    A League of Their Own, this remake bats 1.000

    A League of Their Own is a perfect example of my motto, “All the best stories are about love.” This baseball infused series contains many different kinds of love stories – most of them queer. There’s love for everyone in this outstanding reworking of the 1992 feminist classic.