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LADIES FIRST MOVIE REVIEW
Did you know there is a movie streaming on Netflix starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Fiona Shaw, Charles Dance, Emily Mortimer, Richard E. Grant, and Kathryn Hunter, and written by the screenwriter of Booksmart? Ladies First wants to have a conversation about gender roles in a patriarchal world. Cohen plays Damien Sachs (like a ball sack. Get it?), a smug advertising executive who lands a major account by lying about promoting a woman to a leadership position. To cover his tracks, he elevates long-overlooked employee and single mother Alex Fox (like a sexy lady. Get it?), only for her to discover the truth and quit in disgust. After a heated confrontation, Damien is knocked unconscious and wakes up in a world where gender roles have completely reversed — a world that has forever and always been ruled by the matriarchy, and men exist under a glass ceiling, objectified, ridiculed, and disrespected. Suddenly, Alex has his job, his female coworkers hold the power, and the men around him face the same sexism he once dismissed. To get his life back, Damien must finally learn empathy. And with a cast like that, you’d expect some pretty high quality, right? Well, allow Melina, Eoin, and T.C. to prove otherwise by telling you exactly why no one is talking about this movie.
DIRECTED BY: Thea Shamrock
STARRING: Sacha Baron Cohen, Rosamund Pike, Tom Davis, Emily Mortimer, Weruche Opia, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw, Richard E. Grant, Red Tennant, Kathryn Hunter, Kadiff Kirwan, Bill Paterson, Paul Chahidi, Jordan Metcalfe, Danny Ashok, Dani Moseley, Maddie Rice, Ron Cook, Deborah Findlay
YOUR REVIEWERS
T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)
T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.
Eoin Daly
Born and raised in Dublin Ireland, Eoin currently lives in London and has been an avid film lover from as far back as they can remember. Eoin enjoys going to the cinema weekly regardless of the film: new, old, or the most random title. They have no preconceived notions when taking in a new film. They tend to look for the good in any film they watch and will always love the art form. They are a major fan of actress-led cinema and will never apologize for this one film bias.
Melina Eames (Screener Squad)
Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.
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