When director Amber Fares came out with her documentary Speed Sisters, about the Middle East’s first all-women race car driving team, the New York Times praised it as “unconventional in form as well as content.”
Many films about that part of the world have depicted Arab women cloaked in niqabs, obscuring their uniqueness as individuals. But here, Marah, Mona, Noor and Betty sport logo-covered racing jumpsuits as they tear around streets of the West Bank. “I do it for the release,” says Mona of the adrenaline rush that comes from burning rubber on hot pavement.
Doc Talk podcast co-host John Ridley revisits the film with Fares several years after its initial release, a documentary that takes on new significance with the ongoing conflagration in Gaza, only a few miles distant from the West Bank. Ridley also reckons with the director’s short film Reckoning with Laughter, about the daring...
Many films about that part of the world have depicted Arab women cloaked in niqabs, obscuring their uniqueness as individuals. But here, Marah, Mona, Noor and Betty sport logo-covered racing jumpsuits as they tear around streets of the West Bank. “I do it for the release,” says Mona of the adrenaline rush that comes from burning rubber on hot pavement.
Doc Talk podcast co-host John Ridley revisits the film with Fares several years after its initial release, a documentary that takes on new significance with the ongoing conflagration in Gaza, only a few miles distant from the West Bank. Ridley also reckons with the director’s short film Reckoning with Laughter, about the daring...
- 2/27/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Firefly Lane girls forever. The final episodes of Netflix’s Firefly Lane, which stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke as long-time besties Tully and Kate, are coming to the streamer on April 27. And while we don’t know for sure how their story ends, a just-released trailer and photos offer some hints about what’s in store for the pair in the last seven episodes.
Tully is in Antarctica in the ‘Firefly Lane’ Season 2 Part 2 trailer
The first half of Firefly Lane’s second season was all about the breakdown of Kate (Chalke) and Tully’s (Heigl) decades-long friendship. The two had a massive blow-up after Tully was involved in a car accident with Kate’s teenage daughter Marah (Yael Yurman). That led to Kate cutting Tully out of her life, seemingly for good.
Then, in the part 1 finale, Kate learned she had breast cancer. Her first instinct was to...
Tully is in Antarctica in the ‘Firefly Lane’ Season 2 Part 2 trailer
The first half of Firefly Lane’s second season was all about the breakdown of Kate (Chalke) and Tully’s (Heigl) decades-long friendship. The two had a massive blow-up after Tully was involved in a car accident with Kate’s teenage daughter Marah (Yael Yurman). That led to Kate cutting Tully out of her life, seemingly for good.
Then, in the part 1 finale, Kate learned she had breast cancer. Her first instinct was to...
- 3/28/2023
- by Megan Elliott
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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