Alexandra MacAaron | Women's Voices For Change

Alexandra MacAaron is an alumna of Tufts University and Hunter College High School. She is a past winner of the Simon & Schuster Fellowship, and has written for trade publications and local newspapers. She is the Creative Director & Queen B of B Direct Marketing Communications and author of the book "The New Marketing Conversation" and a blog about parenting tweens, "Lovin’ the Alien.” She lives in Marblehead, MA.

Film & Television

‘Long Shot’: Beauty and the Beast Go to Washington

By Alexandra MacAaron

Female presidents of the United States may be in short supply (or, sadly, in no supply) in the real world, but they've become surprisingly common on screens big and small.

Film & Television · Politics

‘Knock Down the House’: Four Women Dare to Run for Congress

By Alexandra MacAaron

As 'Knock Down the House' argues so compellingly, the United States of America cannot be a government by and for the people unless people are willing to step up and make it so.

Film & Television

Super Tired of Superheroes?
Netflix Serves Up Several New Originals

By Alexandra MacAaron

The streaming services have also provided opportunities for writers, directors, and actors who are often overlooked by mainstream Hollywood. Several of Netflix's current offerings are by, for, and with women.

Film & Television

‘Wild Nights With Emily,’ A Wacky and Wonderful ‘What If . . .’

By Alexandra MacAaron

Presented first as a stage piece, 'Wild Nights with Emily' is an entertaining, quirky, and terribly clever exercise in "What if . . .?"

Film & Television

As ‘The Chaperone,’ Elizabeth McGovern
Comes of Age — in Middle Age

By Alexandra MacAaron

'The Chaperone' is a story about a woman who is changing alongside a changing country, making discoveries about herself in late middle age.

Film & Television

‘Diane’: Mary Kay Place Shines
in Well-Deserved Leading Role

By Alexandra MacAaron

'Diane' is an unrelenting portrait of real life, with all of its challenges and sadness, friends and family, and the inescapable truth that whatever we choose to do or not to do, we are all headed to the same place in the end.

Film & Television

Great Performances: ‘Julius Caesar,’ A Powerful All-Women Production on PBS

By Alexandra MacAaron

"Great Performances: Julius Caesar" on PBS features an all-female cast and is set in a contemporary women's prison. Immediate and relevant, passionate and bold, but hardly what Shakespeare might have imagined.

Film & Television

As ‘Gloria Bell,’ Julianne Moore Dances Into Your Heart

By Alexandra MacAaron

As the title implies, "Gloria Bell" is very much Julianne Moore's movie first and foremost. And, she is absolutely fabulous. "When the world blows up," she remarks at one point, "I hope I go down dancing."

Film & Television

Brave Girl Rising and Period. End of Sentence:
Short Stories that are Changing Women’s History

By Alexandra MacAaron

Women all over the world are changing history for themselves, their peers, and future generations in sometimes small and quiet ways. Two of these less glamorous but equally inspiring stories have been made into compelling short films.

Film & Television

‘The Invisibles’

By Alexandra MacAaron

'The Invisibles' is a movie filled with compassion and bravery. We are left admiring the wherewithal of four brave young people who defied the odds and lived

Film & Television

Oscars 2019: Less Host, More Diversity

By Alexandra MacAaron

This year's Academy Awards took steps to reinvent itself, recognizing that viewing habits are changing and that Hollywood needs to represent more of America — more women, more blacks, Latinos, Asians, and immigrants — in the films and filmmakers it honors.

Film & Television

Preview: The 2019 Academy Awards (#OscarsSoComplicated)

By Alexandra MacAaron

After all the confusion, the big announcements and immediate reversals, The Academy Awards has more than usual to prove this year.

Film & Television

‘Capernaum’: Sheer Heartbreak
in the Streets of Beirut

By Alexandra MacAaron

Calling it a "good film" seems incongruous, given the tragic subject matter. But other words come to mind: wondrous, stunning, strangely and irrationally beautiful.

Books

‘Scenes from the Heartland’
Timeless Tales of a Time Gone By

By Alexandra MacAaron

Although the stories in 'Scenes from the Heartland' take place nearly a century ago, the individual characters' emotional lives are all too familiar and contemporary. What may be the most common theme is struggle and how a person maintains his or her dignity in its face.

Film & Television

‘Egg’: Expectant Mothers Behaving Badly

By Alexandra MacAaron

"Egg" is a film that will likely be appreciated by women more than men. (Not that the reverse ever stopped Hollywood from making a movie.)