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WEEK IN WOMEN: Regina King to Portray Shirley Chisholm – Brandy McDonnell reports

February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 Brandy McDonnell John Ridley, regina king, shirley, shirley chisholm bioppic, the week in women, twiw

Even as she’s building Oscar buzz for her directorial debut One Night in Miami, Regina King is lining up another big starring role in front of the camera. The Academy Award-winning performer (If Beale Street Could Talk) will portray trailblazing politician Shirley Chisholm — America’s first Black congresswoman — in the upcoming biopic Shirley. The film will be produced by Participant and is expected to begin production later this year.

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SHIRLEY – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

June 10, 2020September 18, 2023 MaryAnn Johanson 0 Comments josephine decker, kitty green, shirley, shirley jackson, Susan Scarf Merrell

Stupendous. A work of domestic gothic grotesquerie of women’s suffocation and sacrifice to the needs of men, always presumed to be more important and more pressing, and of women’s pain and isolation, from the world and from other women who might be their allies, unless we can find a way to overcome the conditioning that tells us that other women are our rivals.

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SHIRLEY – Review by Sherin Nichole

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 Sherin Nicole 0 Comments biopics, elisabeth moss, josephine decker, logan lerman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, shirley, shirley jackson

Director Josephine Decker’s take on literary giant Shirley Jackson’s later years is more creative non-fiction than biopic. It’s a character study used to dissect the decay of male dominance on female creativity.

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SHIRLEY – Review by Susan Granger

June 3, 2020June 7, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments elisabeth moss, josephine decker, shirley, shirley jackson. biopics

Now that the Academy is considering ‘streaming’ films, Elisabeth Moss could be an Oscar contender for her ferocious performance as mercurial writer Shirley Jackson, perhaps best known for her allegorical short story The Lottery in the New Yorker in 1948.