Tag: Female Directors
She Said Takes a Deep Dive on Systemic Abuse (Middleburg Film Festival)
The investigation into the behavior of legendary, and now infamous, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein marked the beginning of a seismic shift in how the country addressed sexual harassment and misconduct. A new film sets to document the journey toward exposing…
Read More »The Woman King: How to Balance Historical Accuracy and Filmmaking
Historically based films in Hollywood have never been lauded for their accuracy. Some of film’s most beloved cinematic masterpieces have been extremely dubious with the truth surrounding their stories, sometimes egregiously so. Despite this, these films are usually…
Read More »Don’t Worry Darling, Message Filmmaking Will Hopefully Course Correct Soon
In our increasingly polarized country, people are increasingly feeling as if they have to dig their heels into the political landscape and choose a side. At times, it feels as if political polarization has slowly seeped into every…
Read More »Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. Is a Satire Whose Flat Humor Undercuts It Entirely (Sundance Film Festival)
Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul. aims to satirize how confining, empty, and hypocritical religion can be. Whether it be how it stifles human sexuality and women as an entire class with its with misogynistic tendencies, or how the…
Read More »Breaking Gives Light to Veterans’ Struggles in John Boyega’s Best Performance (Sundance Film Festival)
Everyone has their breaking point. We all have experienced feeling unappreciated and put upon by someone or something, especially when it comes to bureaucracies or other systems nationwide. Perhaps no group feels this more than America’s veterans, people…
Read More »Both Sides of the Blade Has Good Performances But Still Feels Slightly Disappointing
“When you love someone it never really goes away.” Another collaboration between director Claire Denis and Juliette Binochet, with 2021 sensation Titane’s Vincent Lindon added to the mix, sounds enticing enough for any film fanatic to give a…
Read More »Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack Charm in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sundance Film Festival)
Self-discovery is usually something that we associate with young adulthood, a time for exploration and finding out what makes us tick and what we like. But certain cultural mores and life’s roadblocks bring some to this point later…
Read More »Mothering Sunday Weighs Grief and Social Expectations (Toronto International Film Festival)
Based on the 2016 novel, Mothering Sunday follows Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) works as a maid for the Nivens family (Olivia Colman and Colin Firth), a couple who lost their sons on the battlefields of World War I….
Read More »Master Should Spell the End of “Being Black in America is the Real Horror!” Horror Films (Sundance Film Festival)
The 2017 release of Get Out felt like such an event. A true cultural reset where a genre that traditionally has been known for ridding itself of its black characters before you got halfway through your bucket of…
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Elizabeth Banks Shines in the Timely Film Call Jane (Sundance Film Festival)
The recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization which found that the United States Constitution does not confer a right to abortion was a landmark case that gave American states the right to institute…
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