Flix Not To Miss: Oscar-Worthy Performances by an Actress
Now that the crisp winter air has arrived and films are trotted out for Oscar consideration, I highly recommend these spectacular performances by female actors in film. BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine. Blanchett’s turn as Jasmine, a fictional Ruth Madoff-like character, is virtuosic. She doesn’t shy away from showing us the ugly, manipulative...
READ MOREWebisodes Not to Miss: ‘Christine’ on YouTube’s WIGS
With web series’ titles like Blue, Susanna, and Paloma, YouTube’s WIGS Channel has carved out a space for interesting stories about women while giving female stars underexposed in TV and film a chance to shine. Blue, the most acclaimed title from the channel, stars Julia Stiles, while other series feature such talent as Maggie Grace, Grace Gummer,...
READ MOREFlix Not to Miss: Stories We Tell
One of the best documentaries this year comes from Sarah Polley, already an accomplished narrative director (if you haven’t already, go watch Away From Her and Take This Waltz). In Stories We Tell, Polley turns the lens on her own family secrets and potentially devastating personal revelations. It is a fantastic film that seamlessly uses actors and old family movies to tell...
READ MORENYWIFT Recap: The Content Creator’s Journey
Video courtesy of thehipsway. NYWIFT presented the panel DIY: The Content Creator’s Journey at the Tribeca Film Center on October 17. Moderated by Thelma Adams from Yahoo! Movies, the panel featured Shari Berman (award-winning filmmaker, My Life as Abraham Lincoln), Alysia Reiner (actor, Orange is the New Black, director, Speed Grieving), Al Thompson (writer/director of web series Lenox Avenue), Adam Leon (director, Gimme The...
READ MOREProject Spotlight : In Montauk by Kim Cummings
Note: some spoilers Written and directed by NYWIFT member Kim Cummings, In Montauk is a full length feature about Julie (Nina Kaczorowski) a married photographer, who heads to a small Montauk motel after the summer crowds leave to prepare for her first photography exhibition. While at the hotel, Julie meets Christian (Lukas Hassel) a musician...
READ MOREWebisodes Not To Miss: Ghost Ghirls on Yahoo!
Ghost Ghirls Trailer Television programming continues its march online, and with Halloween just around the corner, it’s a great time to check out Yahoo Screen Originals‘ new series, Ghost Ghirls, a comedic web series featuring Angelica and Heidi, two ghost-busting women solving paranormal cases. Created by and starring Amanda Lund and Maria Blasucci, each episode features not only the bumbling ghost...
READ MOREFlix Not To Miss : Una Noche (One Night)
(warning some spoilers) Una Noche, a powerful new film written and directed by Lucy Mulloy looks beyond romantic Lonely Planet images of Cuba’s white talcum powder sand, quaint colonial buildings’ creeping mosaics of peeling paint and colorful vintage cars to show the restless desperation of young people living in grinding poverty among crumbling infrastructure. The...
READ MORETV Not To Miss: Director Michelle MacLaren’s Breaking Bad
Be warned, if you haven’t caught up to season 8 of Breaking Bad, there may be some spoilers below. The final eight episodes of Breaking Bad are here. In its fifth and final season on AMC, the show has attracted an avid fan base (the first episode of the final eight was the highest rated in cable...
READ MOREFlix Not To Miss: The To-Do List
The film summer isn’t complete without the teenage sex romp film. Running the spectrum from crude (Sex Drive and American Pie) to dramedy (The Sure Thing and Losin’ It ), rarely do these genre movies portray teenage girls eager to lose it with as much gusto and determination as teenage boys; that has now changed with...
READ MOREFlix Not To Miss: Blackfish
Before you take the kids to Sea World this summer, watch Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary exposé Blackfish (2013). Blackfish focuses on the dangerous job of Sea World trainers, which has been the subject of OHSA review for more than 20 years. Numerous trainers have been seriously injured or killed at aquatic parks, such as Sea World, all...
READ MOREFlix Not To Miss: An Action Trio of Kathryn Bigelow
Last week Entertainment Weekly published a list of the 100 All Time Greatest Movies. It is interesting to note that out of the 100 films, sadly only three were directed by women– Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (#74), Jane Campion’s The Piano (#92), and the Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstal’s Olympia (#84). None of these film made...
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