Reviews of movies and TV focused on women
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Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight
Read more: Even if This Love Disappears from the World TonightEven if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight is a tender and innocent story of love and heartbreak from South Korea. Unlike a lot of very lengthy material we get as K-drama, this is a movie and can be seen in under two hours. It’s a beautiful movie.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Read more: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & SnakesThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has been around for a couple of years. If you are a Hunger Games fan, you probably wonder where I’ve been all this time, but I just noticed this one streaming on Peacock and took a look.
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Tripped Up comes with a big cast of women
Read more: Tripped Up comes with a big cast of womenTripped Up features a cast of four 20 something women who are all a mix of irresponsibility, ambition, immaturity, wisdom, and loyalty. Shruti Ganguly directed this comedy. It isn’t great, but I watched it because of its mainly female cast.
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Basmati Blues: a second look
Read more: Basmati Blues: a second lookBasmati Blues came out in 2017. Which means it was in production prior to the 2016 election. It received (and deserved) a really terrible thrashing at the time. But since then we’ve been through some stuff. It hits a little differently now.
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Ella McCay, a farcical look at life and politics
Read more: Ella McCay, a farcical look at life and politicsElla McCay has been on the wrong side of the reviewers since its release. My advice, if you decide to watch it, is to think of it as a farce, not a sensible comedy about love and politics. Because I think it is a farce with a warm heart.
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Steal, a twisty heist thriller
Read more: Steal, a twisty heist thrillerSteal is a story about an amazing heist of 4 billion pounds from a corporation that invested retirement money for millions of people. Sophie Turner plays Zara, who worked there and was caught up in the massive theft.
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Leopard Skin with Carla Gugino in an odd mishmash of a series
Read more: Leopard Skin with Carla Gugino in an odd mishmash of a seriesLeopard Skin is impossible to categorize. It’s odd and quirky. It has a crime and criminals, it has a whole cast of improbably strange characters, it has a series of humiliations of epic proportions, it has a love story. It has 8 half hour episodes – is it meant to be a comedy? Because it’s…
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Train Dreams, a life spent building America
Read more: Train Dreams, a life spent building AmericaTrain Dreams is not the kind of film I usually pick to watch, but a reader suggested it had women in significant roles so I took a look. It turned out to be a beautiful film about life in a changing world during the first part of the 20th Century. There are spoilers ahead.
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For When You Get Lost, a touching indie
Read more: For When You Get Lost, a touching indieFor When You Get Lost is part healing journey (AKA a road trip), part family relationships, and part finally growing up at age 40. This low budget indie was written and directed by women. It’s beautifully shot and features excellent actors.