I was surprised to learn that this is in fact not a movie based on the Everclear song of the same name, but instead another entry in Gemma Arterton’s period movie resume. Continue reading
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“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch from June (2020)”
Judy knocks out all of Punch’s babyteeth while Shirley sits in the corner saying, “never, rarely, sometimes always would I knock a man’s teeth out.” Continue reading
“Channing Godfrey Peoples on Capturing the Grit and Dignity of a Community in ‘Miss Juneteenth'”
It isn’t Juneteenth anymore, but that doesn’t mean you can’t or shouldn’t enjoy this movie, and also enjoy this conversation with its author. Continue reading
“Josephine Decker on Finding Power in the Fictional Shirley Jackson”
A conversation with one of the great, enigmatic American filmmakers? Shirley you jest. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch from May (2020)”
We got some fluff, we got some horror, we got some screwball comedy, we got some psychosexual drama…we really got it all! Continue reading
“Films by Women: Nine Movies to Watch from March and April (2020)”
The first honest-to-goodness “about the COVID-19 outbreak” article I’ve written. Sort of. Anyways, have some films by women. Continue reading
“‘The Assistant’ Wields Loneliness To Devastating Effect”
It’s bad enough working a job where you barely have time to eat, and worse when the person you’re starving yourself for is a bastard. Continue reading
“In Charlie’s Angels the Cast Is Having More Fun than You Will”
This is a movie, but also the epitome of a blockbusting year spent making overdetermined, obnoxious , totally disingenuous proclamations of feminine heroism. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch from September (2019)”
Darin’, you don’t need to give up on booksmarts if you want to be a hustler. You just have to remember that satanic panic is always in season. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch from August (2019)”
Vita, Virginia, Mexican cartel members, tigers, nightingales, Aboriginal trackers, heroin addicts, and more converge in August’s round-up. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Four Movies to Watch from May (2019)”
Knock down that house and let the sunshine in! But mind the souvenirs! And don’t sing if someone else is singing! Continue reading
Films by Women: Five* Movies to Watch from April (2019)
In which we take a trip to the unicorn store before hiking up a rock to live the high life and also there’s a dead body. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch from February (2019)”
One of my favorite movies of 2019 goes right alongside a new Netflix original comedy straight from down under in February’s Women In Film Spotlight. In March. Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch in January”
Touch me not as the corpses tan, while remembering all these small moments at Rust Creek with Mike and Nicky. (Translation: Here are some movies by women available in January.) Continue reading
“Films By Women: Four Movies To Watch From December”
It’s the last “Films By Women” piece of 2018! I bet you’re pretty bummed. But it’s okay; there’ll be other lists soon. Like, “in a month” soon. We’re already getting our 2019 watching underway over here in Andy Crump land. (There is no “we.” I am using the royal “we.” It’s my blog! I … Continue reading
“Films by Women: Four Movies to Watch in November”
This is maybe the first Films By Women spotlight I’ve done where I am guilty of not seeing one of the movies on the list, or, in the case of Kino Lorber’s Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers set, any of them; I didn’t have an “in” to score a review copy, so I had to review this more … Continue reading
“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch in September”
Weird to see a “women’s film” spotlight focused on movies from September posted in October, but, uh, mea culpa and such as that. The dog ate my homework. I dunno. There’s not a great excuse for the delay; that being said, I’d still offer that documenting the movies on Septembers slate matters, because some of … Continue reading
Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch in April
April is such a good month for movies directed by women* that this month, for Paste Magazine‘s Films By Women spotlight, we used three in-theaters movies and only two at-home movies to round out the list. Pretty neat! And those in-theater movies are pretty great, being Zama, Blockers, and You Were Never Really Here, which you already know my … Continue reading
Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch in January
New year, new feature. For context, I wrote a very long piece about my experiences completing the #52FilmsByWomen pledge in 2017; that piece didn’t pan out, being both too lumbering, too unfocused, and too performative for its own good. But there’s a positive outcome here, being this, a monthly feature for Paste Magazine, highlighting four to five … Continue reading
Review: Mr. Roosevelt, 2017, dir. Noël Wells
I’m sort of tired of comedies that adopt the simple method of point-and-shoot – see The Big Sick – but I can forgive them for mere adequacy of craftsmanship so long as the writing is both a) good, and b) doesn’t overstay its welcome. In the case of Mr. Roosevelt, I get the sense that the film’s … Continue reading
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