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

Scream Queens: Horror Movies Led by Women

By Alexandra MacAaron

Women have been creating scary movies, writing and/or directing as well as starring in them, for the past 120 years. Here are thirteen titles to explore, just in time for Halloween.

Film & Television

‘The Good House’ is Good, but Sigourney Weaver is Great

By Alexandra MacAaron

Weaver’s extraordinary performance makes 'The Good House' great.

Film & Television

Princesses Are Doing It For Themselves

By Alexandra MacAaron

In 'Catherine Called Birdy,' the protagonist creates her happy ending by challenging assumptions and rewriting rules so they are better suited to everyone.

Film & Television

Blonde — Still Exploited After All These Years

By Alexandra MacAaron

Aside from the jarring directorial choices and overall bleakness of 'Blonde,' what bothered me the most is that while individual predators and the Hollywood machine are condemned for exploiting Marilyn, 'Blonde' feels just as exploitive.

Film & Television

Viola Davis Rules The Woman King

By Alexandra MacAaron

'The Woman King' artfully and seamlessly blends some familiar movie genres with a fresh female perspective—following in the tradition of big-screen sagas like Gladiator, Braveheart, and Last of the Mohicans

Film & Television

Hillary, Chelsea, and Other ‘Gutsy’ Women

By Alexandra MacAaron

Their observations are keen; their enthusiasm is infectious. And, the genuine love and respect they feel for each other is something we can all celebrate as gutsy women ourselves.

Film & Television

Season 5 of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’:
As Relevant As Ever

By Alexandra MacAaron

There’s the feeling that in watching, we are somehow bearing witness. Here are the worst imaginable outcomes of some of today’s almost unimaginable events.

Film & Television

Murder is a Family Affair in ‘Bad Sisters’

By Alexandra MacAaron

In 'Bad Sisters,' the marvelous new black comedy series on Apple TV+, four sisters band together to extract the fifth from a toxic marriage. The series takes sisterhood and girl power to a sinister new level.

Film & Television

‘How to Please a Woman’—An Unlikely Crusader (and a Minimum of One Orgasm)

By Alexandra MacAaron

The film centers around the concept of women’s pleasure. It is positioned simultaneously as vitally important and absolutely ordinary.

Film & Television

Reimagining ‘A League of Their Own’

By Alexandra MacAaron

The new limited series, also titled 'A League of Their Own,' has many of the elements of the 1992 version. However, the focus here is on precisely what that movie missed.

Film & Television · Music

Sounds of Summer: Diva Documentaries — A Streaming TV Roundup

By Alexandra MacAaron

Celebrate music’s female trailblazers, those who have succeeded against staggering odds, with these streaming documentaries.

Film & Television

‘Santa Evita’ Raises Questions About Power and Control

By Alexandra MacAaron

'Santa Evita' delivers a compelling and compassionate portrait of the woman known as “the spiritual leader of a nation.

Film & Television

Lesley Manville Twinkles in ‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’

By Alexandra MacAaron

'Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris' could have been made fifty or sixty years ago. It’s the sort of feel-good movie that is all too rare these days.

Film & Television

‘Where the Crawdads Sing,’ A Minority Opinion

By Alexandra MacAaron

The cast of 'Crawdads' is truly excellent. I found the film to be both moving and memorable.

Film & Television

‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’ is Frothy Fun if Forgettable

By Alexandra MacAaron

With its enthusiastic young cast, yummy art direction, and satisfying, if one-thousand-percent predictable, plotline, 'Mr. Malcolm’s List' may be exactly the right way to spend some time this summer

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