Women's Voices For Change

The broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC (and I'll add CW and Fox to that list), announce their new series every fall. This year, there are several featuring strong women, many in rather unexpected roles.

Today, the United States is facing renewed divisiveness and hate as it grapples with issues of immigration, racism, nationalism, and xenophobia. With this in mind, Blinded by the Light, Chadha's exuberant new film, provides a most welcome respite.

Thanks in large part to Pamela B. Green's lovely and loving film, Alice Guy-Blaché is no longer behind the scenes. She is front and center, exactly where she should have been for the past century.

The new costume drama 'Ophelia,' directed by Claire McCarthy and written by Semi Chellis, based on the novel by Lisa Klein, tells the famous story from Hamlet's on-again, off-again girlfriend's point of view. And then it turns it on its head.

Go to the movies this summer, and there's a good chance you'll come out humming a tune.

I encourage you to watch 'When They See Us.' DuVernay's gripping miniseries has allowed the Central Park Five (who now prefer the title "the Exonerated Five") the chance to be seen and heard they were denied in 1989.