Female Film Critics 24/375
Where the Crawdads Sing includes sex, shells, and snots and the Piggly Wiggly. It’s the story of a determined woman, shot and written by same. Director Olivia Newman handily flips the plots, back and forth, through the Sixties in the South, placing nature front and center to tell this story of Kya, a natural naturalist.
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It’s a courtroom drama/murder mystery/ coming-of-age saga/ romance. Unfortunately, as adapted by Luci Alibar, directed by Olivia Newman, photographed by Polly Morgan and produced by Reese Witherspoon, it’s become disappointingly banal, evoking memories of sappy Nicholas Sparks’ novels – with an original song “Carolina,” written and performed by Taylor Swift.
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Where the Crawdads Sing is based on the wildly popular novel set in the 1950’s and 60’s that tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself in the rural swampland of North Carolina. Known as the Marsh Girl around the nearby town, she haunts the community in more ways than one. This largely female helmed production has all the elements of a fulfilling summer fling.
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For some movie goers, it does not take much more than the promise of Matthew McConaughey voicing a koala bear to get us out of a pandemic pout and into the theater. But when you add Taron Edgerton as a gorilla, Reese Witherspoon as a pig with a dream, and Nick Offerman as her porky husband, we’re in.
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Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor will write the script for Legally Blonde 3. Reese Witherspoon will reprise the starring role as Elle Woods in the third installment of the hit comedy franchise.
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Riley Keough is set to play the title role in the upcoming Amazon original series Daisy Jones & The Six, with director Niki Caro also on board for the show, which is based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Caro will direct multiple episodes, including the initial installment, and will work as executive producer alongside Reese Witherspoon.
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Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon are partnering to adapt The League of Wives, telling the little-known story of a group of women — wives of military men who would never describe themselves as feminists — who banded together to save their husbands. during the Vietnam War.
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Cannes Film Festival 2018 Jury Chair Cate Blanchett and Palme d’Or-winning director Agnes Varda stood among 82 women in film
Read more‘Home Again’ squeaks by as “romcom,” almost begging to be made fun of. It encourages the critic in everyone to
Read moreThe message that women should love their looks even if their features aren’t magazine perfect was central to Penelope (2006),
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