Happy International Women’s Day! Musings on female representation in Hollywood + celebrating female filmmakers

Happy International Women's Day everyone! As a female movie fan and film critic, as well as someone who's dabbled in filmmaking, I'd like to take the opportunity to talk about where we are in terms of female representation. I have lamented in my Oscars nomination musings that Hollywood once again ignored female filmmakers with the …

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December Watching Recap + 2022 Update on my ’52 Films By Women’ Pledge

Happy 2023, friends and readers!! Hope you have recovered from the New Year's Eve festivities… I stayed up till 1:30 which wasn't too bad considering I went to my friend's disco-themed party, first NYE party I attended in a while, I barely stayed awake in front of the TV watching the ball drop in the …

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April 2022 Viewing Recap + Movie Of The Month

Happy Spring, everyone! May arrives cold and rainy here in MN but hey, there's hope for more sunny and warm days ahead. April was quite an eventful month for me as my hubby and I made a trip to NYC to see The Music Man on Broadway. Yep, the one starring Hugh Jackman in the …

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March 2022 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) Of The Month

Happy April, everyone!! It's still quite cold here in Minnesota but I'm looking forward to more daylight in the Spring time. Temps are s-l-o-w-l-y warming up to 50s, hopefully even 60s by mid-April! Things have been quite busy for me this month that I haven't had time to watch as many movies as I had …

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February 2022 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) Of The Month

Spring is in the air!! As I'm writing this, it's about 40F degrees, which is quite balmy for Minnesota! I know March is supposed to be the snowiest month but I'm looking forward to more warming temps (yes I'll take highs in the 30s, ahah!).  Well, like many people in the world this week, I've …

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January 2022 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) Of The Month

Wow, the first month of 2022 has come and gone! Well, January was pretty busy with work after a rather slow couple of months during the holidays. It's been a cold month with more days with subzero temps, ugh, but at least I count myself lucky we didn't get dumped with crazy Winter storm like …

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December 2021 Viewing Recap + Movie(s) Of The Month

  Happy New Year, everyone!! Well, congrats on surviving 2021... may this new year bring you more peace, joy, love, success and good health!! I honestly think last year felt like a breeze, especially the last half with Thanksgiving and Christmas gone by so quickly that it practically had time to digest it. Though initially …

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