Review: Widows, updated - Old Ain't Dead

Viola Davis leads in "Widows." It's a story about the strength women find within themselves when they need it, no matter how dangerous.

Old Ain't Dead
Review: Widows, updated - Old Ain't Dead

Viola Davis leads in "Widows." It's a story about the strength women find within themselves when they need it, no matter how dangerous.

Old Ain't Dead

#Widows came out in 2018, but I decided to re-up the review when I watched it again. What a movie! #review #movies #ViolaDavis

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Mister Lonely, the New TV Hero

Vinson Cunningham on how widowers in “Paradise,” “Severance,” and “American Primeval”—which feature Sterling K. Brown, Adam Scott, and Taylor Kitsch, respectively—drive the plots, to poignant effect.

The New Yorker

Widows are covered with coloured powder as they celebrate Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colours, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Vrindavan, #India

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The new Bridget Jones film shows the messy, funny, mistake-filled reality of widowhood | Stacey Heale https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/15/bridget-jones-film-widow-heroine-grief #BridgetJones'Diary #RenéeZellweger #Lifeandstyle #Bereavement #Culture #Widows #UKnews #Film
The new Bridget Jones film shows the messy, funny, mistake-filled reality of widowhood

I lost my own husband at a young age. It’s rare (and v.g.) to see a heroine trying to live joyfully despite her grief, says author Stacey Heale

The Guardian
10 Important Indian Films on The Nature of Widowhood

10 essential Indian films on widowhood that ascribe important roles to widow characters & refuse to align them with their dead husbands.

High On Films

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Water (Hindi: जल, romanized: Jal) is a 2005 drama film written and directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Anurag Kashyap. It is set in 1938 and explores the lives of widows at an ashram in India.

Water is a dark introspect into the tales of rural Indian widows in the 1940s and covers controversial subjects such as child marriage, misogyny and ostracism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_(2005_film)#Production

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Water (2005 film) - Wikipedia