#womendirectors — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #womendirectors, aggregated by home.social.
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H is for Hawk, a touching study of grief
H is for Hawk is based on a true story. It is an adaption of the book by the same name by Helen MacDonald. Claire Foy stars as Helen in this touching look at how a goshawk helped a woman cope with the loss of her father. […]https://oldaintdead.com/h-is-for-hawk-a-touching-study-of-grief/
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Girls like Girls, coming of age story from Hayley Kiyoko
Girls like Girls started off as a song by Hayley Kiyoko. It grew into a music video. Now it's a full length movie about two high school girls coming into their sexuality as they cope with the other problems in their lives. […]https://oldaintdead.com/girls-like-girls-coming-of-age-story-from-hayley-kiyoko/
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Don’t Say Good Luck, love and joy tinged with sorrow
Don't Say Good Luck gets an enthusiastic recommendation from me. It's a family story about a girl who gets the lead in her high school production of "Waitress: The Musical" at the same time her mother's cancer returns worse than ever. […]https://oldaintdead.com/dont-say-good-luck-love-and-joy-tinged-with-sorrow/
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Sterling Point, coming of age and secrets revealed
Sterling Point puts teens in life changing situations over a summer. In 8 episodes, the emotional push and pull of their lives is explored with compassion and tenderness. […]https://oldaintdead.com/sterling-point-coming-of-age-and-secrets-revealed/
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The Fabulous Four or how to waste a great cast
The Fabulous Four stars Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. It was directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Those facts ought to mean something good. Unfortunately, what it turned out to be was somewhere between average and a mess. […]https://oldaintdead.com/the-fabulous-four-or-how-to-waste-a-great-cast/
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Meet Cute in Manhattan: give Kendall Leary a chance
Meet Cute in Manhattan is a romcom inside a romcom. An out of work actor gets a gig in a commercial and meets a woman. Then he writes a script and pitches it. The script is about an actor meeting someone while filming a commercial. […]https://oldaintdead.com/meet-cute-in-manhattan-give-kendall-leary-a-chance/
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Brave New World, is it the good place or the bad place?
Brave New World is a TV series based on the famous sci fi novel by Aldous Huxley. I read the book many decades ago and barely remember it. This adaptation moves through a world that is either a utopia or a dystopia, depending on which character you look at. […]https://oldaintdead.com/brave-new-world-is-it-the-good-place-or-the-bad-place/
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The Map of Longing, Spanish series on Netflix
The Map of Longing (El mapa de los anhelos) is a Spanish series about love and loss, sisterhood, and grief. There's a bonus love story mixed in with this six part limited series. […]https://oldaintdead.com/the-map-of-longing-spanish-series-on-netflix/
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Inheritance, top notch indie about family
Inheritance stars Austin Highsmith Garces, and Rachel Noll James. It's an independent film released in 2025. There are other films using the same title. This one is about addiction, family, and grief. […]https://oldaintdead.com/inheritance-top-notch-indie-about-family/
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Ride or Die, when BFF means something
Ride or Die is part buddy movie and part action thriller. It involves a secret organization of assassins, some politicians, a lot of drug money, and a couple of best friends. In many ways it's a basic action thriller, but it stands out in one specific way. […]https://oldaintdead.com/ride-or-die-when-bff-means-something/
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Voicemails for Isabelle, grief and love make a strong combo
Voicemails for Isabelle is a strong romcom. It's strong because of its well done secondary theme about learning to live with grief and loss. The romcom part is well done, but nothing unusual. […]https://oldaintdead.com/voicemails-for-isabelle-grief-and-love-make-a-strong-combo/
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See what female directors I picked. #horror #horrormovies #horrorfilms #femaledirectors #womendirectors #movie #film #director #female #women
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Weekly Watches: The Testaments and Margo’s Got Money Troubles
Two excellent TV series I'm watching weekly are at a point where I'm ready to talk about them. They are The Testaments and Margo's Got Money Troubles. Normally I like to wait until something is complete so I can binge it. This is because I'm quite old and my memory is gone. But these two series are so powerful and strong, they make an indelible impression. Let's see how the old brain holds up. […]https://oldaintdead.com/weekly-watches-the-testaments-and-margos-got-money-troubles/
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Alien Intervention, a sci-fi flick
Alien Intervention is a simple indie sci-fi flick. It's set in the New Mexico desert (but not near Roswell). An alien arrives who can look and talk like a man. He leaves something behind for safekeeping. […] -
Queenie, strong enough to be vulnerable
Queenie is a British series written and directed by women and starring Dionne Brown as Queenie, a 25 year old Jamaican British woman. Queenie isn't doing well in life, at work, in her family relationships, or in her love life. She's a mess. […]https://oldaintdead.com/queenie-strong-enough-to-be-vulnerable/
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The Starling Girl, a coming of age story
The Starling Girl, written and directed by Laurel Parmet, looks at the journey of 17 year old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) as she deals with a restrictive religious community, a growing interest in sex, and a crush on her married youth counselor. […]https://oldaintdead.com/the-starling-girl-a-coming-of-age-story/
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Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight
Even if This Love Disappears from the World Tonight is a tender and innocent story of love and heartbreak from South Korea. Unlike a lot of very lengthy material we get as K-drama, this is a movie and can be seen in under two hours. It's a beautiful movie. […]https://oldaintdead.com/even-if-this-love-disappears-from-the-world-tonight/
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The Crystal Cuckoo, mystery series from Spain
The Crystal Cuckoo (El cuco de cristal) is another mystery series based on a novel by Javier Castillo. In this series, a stranger comes into a small town where people have disappeared for many years and stirs things up. […]https://oldaintdead.com/the-crystal-cuckoo-mystery-series-from-spain/
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His & Hers, a mystery that doesn’t quite work
His & Hers is a mystery series starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal. Thompson plays Anna, an ambitious television reporter in Atlanta, and Bernthal plays Jack, a detective with the sheriff's department in the small town where they both grew up. […]https://oldaintdead.com/his-hers-a-mystery-that-doesnt-quite-work/
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Goodbye June from first time director Kate Winslet
Goodbye June adds director to Kate Winslet's list of accomplishments. She also stars in this touching story about a family as it comes together for the passing of the family matriarch, played by Helen Mirren. […]https://oldaintdead.com/goodbye-june-from-first-time-director-kate-winslet/
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Ripple, random connections around love and loss
Ripple tells multiple stories about a group of people who meet in random ways and form a community around love and loss. There are many interesting characters who interconnect in various ways. […]https://oldaintdead.com/ripple-random-connections-around-love-and-loss/
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The Beast in Me, this powerful series captivates
The Beast in Me is the kind of story that will be talked about for many years. It's a tightly written suspense drama that deals with themes of blame, vengeance, rage, and violence that are part of human nature. It's a deep examination of those themes in ways that will merit visiting and revisiting by analysts and film scholars. […]https://oldaintdead.com/the-beast-in-me-this-powerful-series-captivates/
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Joy Ride, raunchy comedy with heart
Joy Ride takes a group of Asian friends on what was meant to be a business trip to China, runs them through some nutty situations in China and Korea, and winds up bringing strength to their friendships. The movie is full of raunchy sex jokes and over the top situations. […] -
The 10 Scariest Horror Movies Directed by Women, Ranked collider.com/horror-movie... #horror #scarry #movies #films #womendirectors
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The Better Sister, a spoiler free review https://oldaintdead.com/the-better-sister-a-spoiler-free-review/ #AlafairBurke, #BobbyNaderi, #CoreyStoll, #DawnWilkinson, #ElizabethBanks, #GabrielSloyer, #GloriaRuben, #JessicaBiel, #KimDickens, #LeslieHope, #LorraineToussaint, #MatthewModine, #MaxwellAceeDonovan, #MichaelHarney, #StephanieLaing, #TheBetterSister, #WomenDirectors
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Hacks, season 4, that's show biz https://oldaintdead.com/hacks-season-4-thats-show-biz/ #AntoniPorowski, #CarolBurnett, #Hacks, #HannahEinbinder, #HelenHunt, #JeanSmart, #JimmyKimmel, #JulianneNicholson, #KatieCouric, #KristenBell, #LuciaAniello, #MeganStalter, #MelissaEtheridge, #MichaelaWatkins, #PaulWDowns, #RandyNewman, #RobbyHoffman, #RosieODonnell, #TonyGoldwyn, #WomenDirectors
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The Last Showgirl bathes Pamela Anderson in overdue starshine https://oldaintdead.com/the-last-showgirl-bathes-pamela-anderson-in-overdue-starshine/ #BillieLourd, #BrendaSong, #DaveBautista, #GiaCoppola, #JamieLeeCurtis, #KateGersten, #KiernanShipka, #PamelaAnderson, #TheLastShowgirl, #WomenDirectors
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In the Summers, three family summers with Dad https://oldaintdead.com/in-the-summers-three-family-summers-with-dad/ #AlessandraLacorazza, #DreyaCastillo, #EmmaRamos, #InTheSummers, #KimayaThais, #LeslieGrace, #LGBTQ, #LioMehiel, #RenéPérezJoglar, #Residente, #SashaCalle, #Transgender, #WomenDirectors