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About Wilda Williams

Wilda Williams is a freelance writer and editor. She has reviewed for Film-Forward since 2019 and blogs about books, movies, and other cultural matters at willywaldo.tumblr.com.

Wildcat

Ethan Hawke directs the biopic of Flannery O'Connor, writer of some of the most original fiction in American literature.

By |May 3rd, 2024|Biopic, Featured|0 Comments

Nowhere Special

A lovely, touching movie that will melt the hardest of hearts.

By |April 25th, 2024|Family drama, Top Picks|0 Comments

My Sailor, My Love

A sensitively directed drama of a late-in-life romance that offers outstanding performances as well as the scene-stealing Irish landscape.

By |September 28th, 2023|Romance|0 Comments

Radical Wolfe

An entertainingly appreciative, if ultimately unsatisfying, documentary on the writer, who, through his work, "could be a terrorist.”

By |September 16th, 2023|Documentary|0 Comments

The Lost King

Sally Hawkins stars as an underdog searching for the remains of the much-maligned Richard III.

By |March 23rd, 2023|U. K.|0 Comments

The Quiet Girl

Less is definitely more, and silence speaks volumes in writer-director Colm Bairéad’s impressive debut.

By |February 23rd, 2023|Book adaptation, Top Picks|0 Comments

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

A surprisingly dull interpretation that is never as modern or steamy as it aims to be.

By |November 30th, 2022|Book adaptation, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

God’s Creatures

A mother, caught in a moral quandary, discovers that her prodigal son might not be the man she had believed him to be.

By |October 7th, 2022|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Family drama, Ireland|0 Comments

Catherine Called Birdy

The cozy medieval world (minus the smelly horse droppings and chicken dung) of Karen Cushman’s middle-grade novel has been re-created in this stylized–and deliberately anachronistic–adaptation.

By |September 21st, 2022|Teen|0 Comments