Female Film Critics 24/375
Director Julius Onah’s Luce trades on the perplexing challenge of accurately accessing character, even in individuals known quite well and occasionally on public display. Add to that a Rashomon factor, that is, the subjective trap for everyone of their own status and personality, and the complications multiply, the film’s audience included as we second guess our own judgments.
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The cinematic efforts of men to delve into the inner lives of women continue to fail abysmally, in particularly horrific manner with Ma, a disgraceful waste of the brilliant Octavia Spencer. She deserves so much better than this bargain-bin cockadoodie pseudo-Misery wannabe. I console myself with the fact that she was probably at least paid well.
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Oscar-winning actor Octavia Spencer has announced that she is teaming with Wyolah Films’ Tate Taylor and John Norris and award-winning actress and New York Times best-selling author Gabrielle Union to produce the film version of the seminal novel Coffee Will Make You Black under her Orit Productions shingle.
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Originating as an Off-Broadway play in which the titular character never appears, this family drama curiously lacks credibility because there’s
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The Shape of Water is the work of director, Guillermo del Toro, who is known for his visionary filmmaking. The film is a sort of Beauty and the Beast. It is set in 1962 and Sally Hawkins is a mute janitor who works in a science facility that is holding an aquatic creature to study it. She and the creature have their own way of communicating with each other through sign language, and they end up falling in love.
Read moreIn this THE WEEK IN WOMEN news roundup.we remember the wonderful Mary Tyler Moore, report on honors for Octavia Spencer
Read more“Any upward movement for one of us is upward movement for all,” Octavia Spencer said. “If we don’t get there
Read moreSearching through history often reveals untold true stories that are hidden gems: this is one of them. During the early
Read moreWriter/director Mike Binder delves into his own family history for this timely dramedy, starring Kevin Costner as a grieving widower
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