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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.

Mothering Sunday

A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.

By |March 25th, 2022|Book adaptation, U. K.|0 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Almost four decades in the making, this affectionate film is an illuminating portrait and a touching story of a friendship that developed between the filmmaker and his subject.

By |November 24th, 2021|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Julia

Don't watch Julia Cohen and Betsy West’s delightful documentary about Julia Child on an empty stomach.

By |November 12th, 2021|Documentary, Top Picks|0 Comments

Becoming Cousteau

To create this immersive visual portrait, two-time Oscar nominee Liz Garbus drew on almost 550 hours of footage, taken from Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s own, rarely seen films as well as from the Cousteau Society’s archives.

By |October 21st, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments

In Balanchine’s Classroom

A marvelous and moving portrait of an extraordinary master at work and the dancers he influenced so profoundly.

By |September 20th, 2021|Arts|0 Comments

Best Sellers

Can an ambitious young woman find redemption through an elderly, reclusive writer?

By |September 17th, 2021|Comedy|0 Comments

The Capote Tapes

A new documentary retells with a fresh, sparkling style the now familiar sad story of Truman Capote’s rise and fall.

By |September 8th, 2021|Pop Culture, Top Picks|0 Comments

Misha and the Wolves

At the center of this compelling documentary is a World War II survival tale that is almost too astonishing to be believable.

By |August 11th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Holocaust|0 Comments

Stillwater

A bouillabaisse of a film that mixes, not always successfully, the suspenseful procedural investigation of director Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight with the touching redemption stories of his earlier movies.

By |July 29th, 2021|Crime, Thriller|0 Comments