Tag: Women Directors
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Everything’s Trash, new comedy with Phoebe Robinson
Everything’s Trash is a new comedy on Freeform (and Hulu) about a podcaster who shares her life in a podcast she calls Everything’s Trash. It’s not perfect, but it has a good core and personality.
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Not Okay, when fake influencers get caught out
Not Okay is about a woman who lied her way to internet fame, then crashed and burned. This message film uses darkly satirical comedy with underpinnings from our broken celebrity culture. The dark comedy begins even before the movie starts with a warning, “This film contains an unlikeable female protagonist. Viewer discretion advised.” There are…
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Happening (L’événement), relevant and topical
Happening (L’événement)is set in 1960s France when abortion was illegal. It shows the dangerous ordeal one young woman went through to get an abortion. It’s relevant in so many ways to what is happening in the United States now.
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Umma, talk about mommy issues!
Umma stars Sandra Oh in a story haunted by intergenerational family issues. A film with Sandra Oh should have been better than this one is. I thought perhaps she was interested in acting (and producing) this story because it featured Korean culture and language.
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Review: Virgin River, season 4
Virgin River just released season 4 on Netflix. Season 5 is on the way. As I watched season 4, I pondered the question, “Why is this show so popular?” I decided it was because it’s about real people living real lives with drama coming from situations that feel real. The characters fall in love, argue,…
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Pretty Hard Cases, cop dramedy with two women in the lead, season 1
Pretty Hard Cases is a blend of cop drama and laughs in this Canadian series running as an original on Freevee. This review is about season 1. Season 2 is already available and season 3 is in the making.
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Leverage: Redemption, let’s do some good
Leverage: Redemption is a series for anyone who is tired of stories about rich people being cast as heroic. This series is about a group of criminals who force justice on the rich by making them pay for their misdeeds. Cheers to them!