Weekly Update
Weekly Update for March 14: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Veronica Mars — Co-Written by Dianne Ruggiero A new case draws Veronica Mars back to her hometown of Neptune, CA, just in time for her ten-year high school reunion....
Weekly Update for March 7 Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Honey — Directed by Valeria Golino; Written by Valeria Golina, Francesca Marciano, Valia Santella Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and...
Weekly Update for February 28: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Bottled Up — Written and Directed by Enid Zentelis In this modern day drama, Oscar-winner Melissa Leo beautifully conveys the heart-wrenching struggle that comes...
Weekly Update for February 21: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (doc) — Directed by Chiemi Karasawa Elaine Stritch is one of the most entertaining women in show business, both on stage and off. Chiemi...
Weekly Update for February 14: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Adult World Adult World is a satirical comedy about an eccentric young woman, Amy Anderson (Emma Roberts), who has just come out of university convinced she’s going to...
Weekly Update for February 7: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening The Pretty One — Written and Directed by Jenee LaMarque Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks) stars as a pair of identical twins in this pleasantly quirky dramedy. As much a...
Weekly Update for January 31: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Somewhere Slow “Overt femininity is sometimes just a wall to keep outsiders from peering in,” I wrote in my Los Angeles Times review. “That’s certainly the case...
Weekly Update for January 24: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Run and Jump — Directed by Steph Green and Written by Ailbhe Keogan Oscar-nominated director Steph Green’s feature debut is the first great film of 2014....
Weekly Update for January 17: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Band of Sisters (doc) — Written and Directed by Mary Fishman “I did exactly what the church asked me — and now, the church is looking at me like, where have...
Weekly Update for January 10: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films Directed By and About Women Opening The Truth About Emanuel — Written and Directed by Francesca Gregorini Emanuel (Kaya Scodelario), a troubled girl, becomes preoccupied with her...
Weekly Update for End of 2013: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films Directed by and About Women Opening Let’s Ruin It with Babies — Written, Directed, and Starring Kestrin Pantera Channing has it all: a beautiful home, a rock-star lifestyle, and a...
Weekly Update for December 13: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Saving Mr. Banks — Written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith A perfectly cast Emma Thompson plays Mary Poppins writer P.L. Travers, who is locked in a epic, 20-year...
Weekly Update for December 6: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Expecting — Written and Directed by Jessie McCormack After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a...
A Frozen/Fire Holiday Weekly Update for November 27: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening Frozen — Co-Directed and Written by Jennifer Lee: I was hugely surprised by how much I loved Frozen, which is written and co-directed by Jennifer Lee. It is about...
Weekly Update for November 22: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Philomena — The wonderfully fierce Judi Dench gives a masterful performance in the stolen-children drama Philomena. In The Village Voice, I described it...
Weekly Update for November 15: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Currently Playing The Broken Circle BreakdownAss Backwards — Written by Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael Reaching for the Moon — Co-Written by Julie Sayres, Carmen...
Weekly Update for November 1: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Running from Crazy — Directed by Barbara Kopple (doc) Running from Crazy is a documentary examining the personal journey of model and actress Mariel...
Weekly Update for October 25: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Blue is the Warmest Color There’s no doubt when Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color hits theaters today it will cause controversy. The movie...
Weekly Update for October 18: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Carrie — Directed by Kimberly Peirce Peirce’s modernized version of the classic stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Carrie, an ostracized teen, who learns...
Weekly Update for October 11: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend A River Changes Course — Directed by Kalyanee Mann (doc) A River Changes Course is the moving and insightful 2013 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning...
Weekly Update for October 4: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Concussion — Written and Directed by Stacie Passon Concussion was one of my favorite movies at Sundance this year. It was truly a revelation. Robin...
Weekly Update for September 27: Women Centric, Directed and Written Films Playing Near You
Films About Women Opening This Weekend Therese Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her...