Tag: Female Directors
Hamnet’s Powerful Performances Balance Out a Light Narrative (Middleburg Film Festival)
Director Chloe Zhao returns to the big screen with a tale of love and loss. Hamnet tells the tale of William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his early life with his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley). After getting married and…
Read More »Left-Handed Girl: A Slice of Alice Character Study with a Twist (Middleburg Film Festival)
Fresh off of his stellar Oscar winning run last year for Anora, Sean Baker’s first foray back into theaters is as a co-writer and producer of a Taiwanese film by director/writer Shih-Ching Tsou. Left-Handed Girl tracks the lives…
Read More »Die My Love Takes an Unflinching Look at Mental Health
After nearly ten years since her last feature film , director Lynne Ramsey returns to theaters. Die My Love follows Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson), a young couple who move from New York City to Jackson’s rural…
Read More »A House of Dynamite is Horrifyingly Thrilling and Tense
Kathryn Bigelow has been away from movie theaters since 2017’s criminally underrated Detroit, but the acclaimed, Oscar winning director has finally returned to the big screen with a deliciously thrilling film about a disastrous event with A House…
Read More »Sorry, Baby is a Character Study on Processing Trauma
Sorry, Baby introduces us to Agnes (Eva Victor), a graduate student preparing to finish her thesis in a small college town while nurturing her longtime friendship with Lydie (Naomi Ackie). While finishing her studies, Agnes has a traumatic…
Read More »The Old Guard 2 is a Serviceable, Slight Regression From Its Predecessor
The Old Guard was a pleasant surprise when it was released on Netflix in 2020, introducing a team of immortal assassins who traveled the world saving people before finding a new recruit and helping her navigate eternal life….
Read More »Materialists Approaches Modern Dating with Sentiment
If you’ve spent even two seconds on social media, you’ve been made aware that modern day struggles with the dating scene are top of mind for countless people. Debates over who pays, which sex brings what to the…
Read More »Pamela Anderson Shines in The Last Showgirl (Middleburg Film Festival)
The passage of time, particularly for women, has been a theme in 2024’s film slate and the movies that explore this have been buoyed by notable performances from star actress past who have moved onto their latter life…
Read More »The Substance Uses the Grotesque to Question Our Vanity
Human beings have long pondered their vitality and how to deal with aging. This goes doubly so for women due to the pressures they face to remain physically attractive for as long as possible, with their worth often…
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Rental Family: Uncomfortable Lies Exchanged For Comfortable Truths (Middleburg Film Festival)
After 2022’s “Brenaissance” that saw the actor make a triumphant return to Hollywood with his Academy Award winning turn in The Whale, Brendan Fraser hits the big screen for his first starring role since bringing home the Oscar….
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