By Andrea ThompsonIt’s been a very odd year, and we didn’t get nearly as many films directed by women as we should have. But we still got…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Film Girl Film’s Top 10 Films Directed By Women In 2020”

By Andrea Thompson Wonder Woman 1984 isn’t just one of the few superhero movies to have a female lead with the titular heroine, a.k.a. Diana Prince (Gal…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Wonder Woman 1984′s Cheetah Is All Wasted Potential and Bad Implications”

By Andrea Thompson 2020 was a complicated year to the say the least, one I can’t imagine feeling nostalgic for or wanting to repeat. But silver lining?…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: My Top Films of 2020”

By Andrea ThompsonFilms about the afterlife are bound to get philosophical about life…well, most of the time, but films like “Beetlejuice” are no less fun for their…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Latest Pixar creation ‘Soul’ gets lost between worlds”

By Andrea ThompsonEveryone knows the score in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and they’re all grappling with it in their own way one night in Chicago in 1927…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Viola Davis struts, but Chadwick Boseman electrifies in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’”

By Andrea ThompsonThe funny thing about “I’m Your Woman” is how quickly it sums up its own, overly familiar premise, then pulls the rug right out from…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Rachel Brosnahan is a women on the edge in Julia Hart’s ‘I’m Your Woman’”

By Andrea Thompson“Minari” just might be the most intensely gentle roller coaster you’ll ever be lucky enough to partake in. Contradictory? It’s meant to be. “Minari” is a…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: The American Dream proves dangerously evasive in the family drama ‘Minari’”

By Andrea ThompsonThey say the course of true love never did run smooth, but there seem to be a whole lot of unnecessary obstacles in “Sylvie’s Love,”…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Romance and regression mix uneasily in ‘Sylvie’s Love’”

By Andrea ThompsonAh, Twilight. Many assumed that the franchise about the literal undying love between a human embodiment of teen angst named Bella and the just-as-needlessly tortured…… Read more “New from A Reel of One’s Own by Andrea Thompson: Twilight Should Be Revamped … and Focus on the Real Heroine This Time”