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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.

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

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

A widowed British house cleaner falls in love with a Christian Dior dress and aims to buy one for herself in this sweet, if unsurprising, Cinderella story.

By |July 13th, 2022|Book adaptation|0 Comments