Summertime, and the Movies are Musical
Go to the movies this summer, and there's a good chance you'll come out humming a tune.
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Put Emma Thompson — and Her New Movie,
‘Late Night’ — on Your List
'Late Night' deals with more substantive topics, like diversity, the #MeToo movement (and what it means when the workplace aggressor is a woman and her targeted subordinate is a man), and especially ageism.
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Ava DuVernay’s powerful new Netflix mini-series ‘When They See Us’
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.
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‘Booksmart’: Geeks Gone Wild
'Booksmart' is a funny, entertaining, and very smart celebration of the deep friendship between two academically gifted girls who decide to make up for four years of non-stop studying with one epic night of partying
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‘Rafiki’: Juliet and Juliet, A Kenyan Love Story
'Rafiki' is visually compelling, and the story it tells, although by no means unfamiliar, so engaging that it's easy to overlook the film's very fine performances.
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‘Wine Country’: Amy Poehler Takes Her BFFs to Napa
In the last several years, we've seen a good number of girlfriend-power movies. I applaud Amy Poehler and her team for delivering a buddy movie that focuses on women. Hopefully, it will pave the way for more (and maybe even better ones).
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‘Long Shot’: Beauty and the Beast Go to Washington
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.
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‘Knock Down the House’: Four Women Dare to Run for Congress
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.
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Super Tired of Superheroes?
Netflix Serves Up Several New Originals
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.
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‘Wild Nights With Emily,’ A Wacky and Wonderful ‘What If . . .’
Presented first as a stage piece, 'Wild Nights with Emily' is an entertaining, quirky, and terribly clever exercise in "What if . . .?"
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As ‘The Chaperone,’ Elizabeth McGovern
Comes of Age — in Middle Age
'The Chaperone' is a story about a woman who is changing alongside a changing country, making discoveries about herself in late middle age.
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‘Diane’: Mary Kay Place Shines
in Well-Deserved Leading Role
'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.
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Great Performances: ‘Julius Caesar,’ A Powerful All-Women Production on PBS
"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.
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As ‘Gloria Bell,’ Julianne Moore Dances Into Your Heart
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."
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Brave Girl Rising and Period. End of Sentence:
Short Stories that are Changing Women’s History
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.
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