The Hurt Locker

Top Ten: Female Directed Films

10 June 2015 by Louise Leave a Comment

As I get older I find myself becoming increasingly feminist in my opinions. I look around me and I see reports of women facing sexism in their daily lives, I watch Parliament and hear female MPs being told to “behave” by their male colleagues and I have to bite my tongue…

Filed Under: Top 10 Tagged With: A League of their Own, Ada DuVernay, Andrea Arnold, Anne Fletcher, Bend it like Beckham, Big, Escape to Victory, female directors, feminism, Gurinder Chadha, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, Keira Knightley, Lionel Shriver, Lisa Cholodenko, Lynne Ramsay, Mel Gibson, Nancy Myers, Nora Ephron, Parminder Nagra, Penelope Spheeris, Penny Marshall, Red Road, romantic comedies, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Sleepless in Seattle, Sofia Coppola, The Hurt Locker, The Kids Are All Right, The Proposal, Tom Hanks, Wayne's World, We Need to talk about Kevin, What Women Want, When Harry Met Sally, Zero Dark Thirty

Argo

15 April 2013 by Louise Leave a Comment

Just before the Oscars I did one of those Facebook quizzes – how many Best Picture Academy Award Winners had I seen. I was confident and as I started clicking from 2011 downwards I was quite happy – The Artist, The King’s Speech, The Hurt Locker – I was on fire…

Filed Under: Movies Tagged With: Alan Arkin, Argo, Ben Affleck, Best Picture winner, Bryan Cranston, CIA, Iranian revolution, John Chambers, John Goodman, Oscar Winning films, Oscars 2013, The Artist, The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech, Tony Mendez