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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.

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

Hello, Bookstore

A tender valentine to quirky, independent bookshops.

By |April 28th, 2022|Documentary|0 Comments

The Duke

Yes, there will always be an England of eccentrics who march to the beat of their own drum.

By |April 21st, 2022|Crime|0 Comments

The Rose Maker

An engaging, if familiar, cinematic bonbon that owes its appeal to Catherine Frot's winning performance and its unusual subject, the rarified world of rose breeding and flower competitions. Oh, for the revival of Odorama!

By |April 1st, 2022|French, Top Picks|0 Comments