Tag: Female Directors

Middleburg Film Festival: One Night in Miami and the Battles Over Ideology and Celebrity in Activism

The carrot or the stick. The hawk or the dove. Debates over using aggression or peaceful compromise as a group to achieve their aims is an eternal one. In America, this struggle is currently playing itself out on…

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Nomadland and What Post-Industrial Collapse Hath Wrought

Some of us are born with wandering souls; traversing the world for meaning or peace or maybe simply adventure, always seeking answers in new places among new faces. Others come to amble about in response to the upending…

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On The Rocks: Fathers Be Good to Your Daughters

They say that the first person of the opposite sex that we ever fall in love with is our opposite sex parent. The example they set and our relationship with them will determine our own romantic entanglements for…

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The Forty-Year-Old Version of Balancing Expression and Compromise

“And if I’m not creatin art, am I committin a crime?” The tale of the struggling artist who reaches the precipice of success only to face the powers-that-be pressuring them into compromising their vision, putting the artist at…

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Relic Explores How Aging Shifts Relationships Between Parent and Child

Relic tells the story of Edna (Robyn Nevin), an elderly and widowed grandmother who goes missing as her mental capacity has began to slowly decline. Her daughter Kay (Emily Mortimer) rushes to her mother’s home in an attempt…

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The Old Guard Balances Action, Philosophy, and Morality in One Entertaining Package

We all go about our daily lives with the foreboding knowledge that death comes for us all. When I consider what awaits me at the end of my time here on Earth, all the possibilities evoke fear. Those…

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The Audition Touches on Interesting Concepts but Fails to Grasp

Parent-child relationships are often fraught and hard to navigate. Parents often want what’s best for their child, but can often confuse that wish for their own hopes and desires. The Audition follows one such relationship. Anna Bronsky (Nina…

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Miss Juneteenth and Dreams Deferred

“Sometimes we women take it on ourselves, don’t we?” Much has been made about the role black American women play within our society over the past four years. “Listen to black women“, “Black women save America from itself”…

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Babyteeth Brings Some Needed Messiness to the Coming of Age Story

“Joy and pain. Are like sunshine and rain. Love can be bitter, love can be sweet. Sometimes devotion and sometimes deceit. The ones that you care for give you so much pain. Oh but it’s alright they’re both…

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Don’t Wake Me, I’m Dreamin’: The High Note Sings a Song of Aspirations

Clawing one’s way toward a dream will involve overcoming many obstacles along the way. These impediments may be further complicated by some of the challenges often thrown at people due to their sex, race, gender, socioeconomic status, or…

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