daily stream: starting over ain’t easy
2012’s Silver Linings Playbook is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Jennifer Lawrence
Don’t Look Up movie review: is the sky falling?
I laughed a lot while also feeling sick to my stomach. As subtle as a sledgehammer, almost obnoxious… and yet it might as well be a documentary. Is it elegant? Is it art? Who the fuck cares?
Swallow movie review: leaves a sour taste
Half a century ago, this would have been radical. Today, it’s banal. The slick postwar aesthetic is emblematic of a male filmmaker’s understanding of women that exists only through dated stereotypes.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Jun 07
Olivia Cooke stars in drama Katie Says Goodbye; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Jun 05–07
Dance superstar Natalia Osipova is featured in documentary Force of Nature Natalia; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix movie review: dark matter, done way too light
A lazy treadmill of a sci-fi morality play that wastes a terrific cast. A numbingly dull game of mutant checkers that has no idea how to tell a woman’s story except filtered through the eyes of men.
AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced
Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Mar 02
Lots of female characters (albeit in films with only tiny releases), and so many of them are being menaced, threatened, and violently attacked. Damn.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Mar 01
Documentaries by Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Jen Randall, a drama by Saila Kariat, and more.
Red Sparrow movie review: undercovers agent
Ballerina turned whore-spy? This is like a cheap porn scenario, and the Hollywood gloss makes it worse. Risible yet tedious, yet another movie by men that thinks it’s critiquing misogyny yet is indistinguishable from it.
