Reviews of movies and TV focused on women

Tag: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

  • Review: Sweetness in the Belly

    Review: Sweetness in the Belly

    Sweetness in the Belly tells about an English child left at age 7 in the care of a Sufi master in Morocco. When her parents didn’t make it back, she was raised by The Great Abdal (Estad Tewfik Yusuf Mohamed). He educated her in several languages, taught her the Koran, and brought her up as […]

  • Watchmen Brings Relevant Themes to Alternate Reality

    Watchmen Brings Relevant Themes to Alternate Reality

    I’m late to the party with Watchmen. I got HBO Max for Christmas and I’m catching up on all the good stuff that everyone else has already seen. The series is based on characters in a DC Comics graphic novel series. The heroes and the villains are all played by outstanding actors.

  • The Get Down Coming to Netflix in 2016

    The Get Down Coming to Netflix in 2016

    The Get Down sounds like the origin story for Empire. A rag tag group of teenagers run wild in the streets of the South Bronx in the late 70’s. The series is described as “a mythic saga of how New York at the brink of bankruptcy gave birth to hip-hop, punk and disco.” The  13 […]

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