movies by or about women opening US/Can Dec 06
Jessica Hausner directs and writes, with Géraldine Bajard, Little Joe, starring Emily Beecham; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Gwendoline Christie
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jun 28
Shayna McHayle costars in dramedy Support the Girls; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
In Fabric movie review: retail shock therapy
A murderous dress and creepy shop clerks add up to nothing more than exhausting nonsense full of fetishizing of women and weirdness for weird’s sake alone. Consumerism is killing us, or something.
Welcome to Marwen movie review: toying with our sympathy
The plastic terror of The Polar Express melded with the kooky charm of Forrest Gump is a bad, sometimes outright icky, way to tell a tale of trauma and recovery, and does a disservice to Steve Carell’s sensitive performance.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Aug 10
Jennifer Yuh Nelson directs Amandla Stenberg in a dystopian thriller; Nina Dobrev, Vanessa Hudgens, and Eva Longoria are dogs’ best friends; more…
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 01
Mila Kunis and Kaye McKinnon have a spy adventure; Amandla Stenberg fights for respect in a future dystopia; Chloë Grace Moretz undergoes a terrible “therapy”; more…
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review: grab the Bolly, darling
Sends up one-upwomanship, egotistical self-help, and reflexive hedonism with zing. It is a sheer triumph to see two older women being really funny onscreen.
let’s shoehorn some women into Star Wars?
More than a month after J.J. Abrams announced “the” cast for his upcoming Star Wars flick, suddenly we’ve got two new cast members!
Game of Thrones S02 E10: “Valar Morghulis”
So not enough Jaime Lannister this series. I hope this oversight will be remedied in upcoming episodes…
