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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.

Swan Song

An immersive behind-the-scenes look at a two-year effort to restage Swan Lake.

By |July 25th, 2024|Arts|0 Comments

Widow Clicquot

The woman who revolutionized the French champagne industry.

By |July 19th, 2024|Biopic|0 Comments

Touch

Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur shifts gears with this subtle, romantic melodrama that blends elements of Past Lives and The Notebook.

By |July 12th, 2024|Book adaptation|0 Comments

Firebrand

An uneven period drama about the Tudor monarch’s final spouse that plays fast and loose with the historical record.

By |July 1st, 2024|Costume Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer packed more eventful living into a single lifetime than a dozen men.

By |June 28th, 2024|Documentary|0 Comments

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