Championing fellow women and female filmmakers has always been the goal of FlixChatter. So every year I participate in the #52FilmsByWomen challenge. Introduced a few years ago by the Women In Film (WIF) organization, the basic rules are simple: watch 52 films directed by women within one year. I also share the films I watch on …
Tag: Ava DuVernay
FlixChatter Review: ORIGIN – Heart-wrenching & defiant, Ava DuVernay brings Isabel Wilkerson’s fascinating life + literary journey to life
Thanks to NEON’s FYC DVD box I received sometime in December, I was able to watch a few films that aren’t even in theaters yet. One of them I saw recently was ORIGIN, written and directed by Ava DuVernay. Billed as a biographical drama, it’s actually more of an origin story (pun intended) of how …
2015 Oscar Nominations: The Good, the Bad and the WTF
Some movie bloggers (myself included) must be masochists in some ways. I mean, I haven't quite recovered from some of the disappointments of the Golden Globes and now we're subjecting ourselves to another disgruntlement of Oscars nominations! 😛 Same like last year, I didn't make a post of my nomination predictions this year, I only …
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