movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Jan 12
Frances McDormand’s acclaimed performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri finally gets its UK release, and French and Mexican films focus on women’s lives.
Month: January 2018
Final Portrait movie review: the not-so-fine making of fine art
A bleakly funny, genteelly twisted gloss on the clichés of temperamental creative genius, via the relationship between an artist and his subject, one that questions the sometimes high personal price of great art.
things Hollywood men could have said at the Golden Globes
These will all work at the Oscars too! Feel free to steal ’em, guys.
AWFJ 2017 EDA Awards winners announced
The Shape of Water wins Best Film, and Best Director goes to Guillermo del Toro. Agnes Varda is Defying Age and Ageism, and Hollywood’s sexual tormentors are inducted in the AWFJ Hall of Shame.
Call Me by Your Name movie review: met a boy cute as can be…
You can feel the stillness and the heat of this sultry, sensual summer in Italy. This is a glorious romance about falling in love with life itself, and living with gusto.
Brad’s Status movie review: when a white man can’t bear not having all the privilege
Ben Stiller is having another midlife crisis, and only his sincere, heartfelt performance saves this pile of unchecked white male privilege from self-parody. But only just.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Jan 01
Jessica Chastain and Maggie Q. get centered in their own stories, while Michelle Williams is this week’s Best Supporting Mother.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jan 05
Molly’s Game goes wide, and a few foreign films about women arrive (in limited release) on US shores.
I’m highlighting female participation in a film with each new review
Quick visual icons to the top of each review will indicate whether a film has a female director, writer, and/or protagonist.
All the Money in the World movie review: cashed out
The most interesting thing about this all-over-the-place drama-thriller is Ridley Scott’s last-minute Hail Mary pass to replace a disgraced cast member. The finale is tense and exciting, but it’s a slog to get there.
