Happy New Year!! December Viewing Recap, Reflecting on 52-Films-By-Women 2024 Challenge + my top 10 favorite female-directed movies

Well, folks, 2024 has come and gone... it's really been quite a doozy! I don't know about you but 2024 feels like it went by really fast! Like blink-and-you-miss-it fast! It's been an interesting year for me personally work-wise and health-wise, but all in all, I am grateful for everything and I continue to be …

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52 Films By Women 2024 Challenge – 10 Best Female-Directed Movies I saw in the first half of the year

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 …

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Happy New Year!! December Viewing Recap, Reflecting on 52-Films-By-Women 2023 Challenge + Looking Forward to 2024 Movies

It's still New Year's Eve eve here in Minnesota and I'm about to drive to my friend's Great Gatsby-themed party in a couple of hours. Well, I'm not going to blog about my favorite movie scenes set on New Year's Eve, as I've already done that here. Well, I don't want my last post of …

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TCFF 2023 Double Indie Reviews: ‘Loren & Rose’ starring Jacqueline Bisset + ‘A View of the World from Fifth Avenue’

Hello everyone! I took a few days of blogging break as I just really needed it after the hectic TCFF schedule. Nice to get an extra hour of sleep as Daylight Savings ended last night. So I'm back with a couple indie film reviews I saw at the fest. As for the studio releases, I'll …

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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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What I Watched in January 2023 + Movie Of the Month

Woo wee! Where has January go??! I feel like I barely did anything in the first month of the year, though I did celebrate Lunar New Year a couple of weeks ago with some friends which was fun. It's been a c-c-ccold January with temps dipping to well below zero. As much as I adore …

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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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