AWFJ 2021 EDA Awards winners announced
And the winners are…
Sandra Bullock
curated: YouTube bans videos showing dangerous pranks and stunts
So what’s YouTube gonna do about racist and misogynist videos?
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Thu Dec 13
KiKi Layne stars in drama If Beale Street Could Talk; Nadine Labaki directs social-realist drama Capernaum; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Sat Dec 08
Susanne Bier directs science fiction drama Bird Box; Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi codirects documentary Free Solo; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Jun 18
Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett plan a heist, Diane Kruger plots revenge, and more…
Ocean’s Eight movie review: revenge of the women
Breezy fun that sticks a shiv into Hollywood’s — and the larger culture’s — disdain for women. Wonderfully subtle comic performances from a great cast having a ball make for a perfectly suitable light diversion from the world right now.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 08
Does every wide release in North America this week feature a female protagonist or female ensemble? Wow.
Our Brand Is Crisis movie review: unearned (and unneeded) sentiment
A protagonist who revels in the sheer cynicism of her job gets a sentimental redemption out of nowhere; Sandra Bullock’s comedic chops are undercut by it.
more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies
Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.
Minions movie review: the curtain of yellow mystique falls
I love the Minions and I thought they totally deserved their own movie. But I was wrong. Or, at least, this movie is not the movie they deserve.
