Tag: Female Directors
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…
Read More »My Old Ass is Well Rounded and Resonant
An unconventional film is the latest entry in high quality coming of age stories. My Old Ass follows a free-spirited 18 year-old named Elliott (Maisy Stella) who decides to take a mushroom trip on her birthday with her…
Read More »Nicole Kidman Shines in Babygirl’s Tale of Power and Vulnerability
The erotic thriller has been a critically endangered species in modern cinema, with the once prolific genre almost completely disappearing from movie theaters. Writer/director Halina Reijn is looking to change this with her latest effort. Babygirl introduces us…
Read More »Nightbitch is an Entertaining, Revelatory Exploration of the Pressures of Motherhood (Middleburg Film Festival)
Following lots of hype surrounding Rachel Yoder’s 2021 novel coming to the big screen and the potential of a performance from Amy Adams finally garnering her an Oscar, the trailer for Marielle Heller’s new film Nightbitch deflated a…
Read More »Blink Twice Has Interesting Visuals, Less Interesting Story
Actress Zoe Kravitz makes her directorial debut with a new thriller in theaters. Blink Twice introduces us to cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) who has a massive crush on tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum). King holds a…
Read More »The Watchers Can’t Deliver On Its Promising Story Elements
M. Night Shyamalan is a name that has been long established and entrenched in the horror/sci-fi thriller space for more than three decades. While polarizing, his output has seen a renaissance over the past few years as he…
Read More »Love Lies Bleeding: Performances From Its Stars Can’t Overcome The Film’s Choices
Rose Glass has written and directed a few highly touted indie films, the most recent being 2019’s Saint Maud, and now she returns to multiplexes with a new Romantic thriller that involves drama, love, and violence. Love Lies…
Read More »Origin: A Hashtag Important Film
Following a critically claimed documentary series on Netflix, director Ava DuVernay returns to the big screen with another look at race and discrimination. Based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel…
Read More »Shayda is an All-Encompassing Look at Overcoming Abusive Relationships (Middleburg Film Festival)
Shayda follows a young Iranian mother named Shayda (Zahra Amir Ebrahimi) who takes refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) as she seeks a divorce from her estranged husband Hossein (Osamah Sami)…
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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…
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