Sip and Scene Discussion Group

This monthly discussion group meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Monday of the month at New New Buffet, 3822 Belt Line Road in Addison. Participants watch the designated movie independently before the meeting, often on a streaming app. After collecting food choices from the buffet, they meet in a side room of the restaurant to examine the movie’s approach to women’s issues both in years past and currently. Given the strong impact on cultural mores held by visual media, the discussion often reveals motivators for the ways women and girls are developed and influenced in our society. Discussion begins by 7 p.m.

Below are the 2026 Movie Selections:

January 5, 2026

Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming is beautiful country that hides a chilling truth: someone is killing young native women. When another frozen body is found, the FBI sends in an inexperienced female agent to work with the local US Fish and Wildlife Service Agent on the case. But everyone knows dead native women aren’t even a statistic kept in America. Wind River (2017) is a powerful statement on invisible women.

February 2, 2026

We Live in Time (2024) is an unusual telling of the ten years of Tobias and Almut’s relationship. Time slips back and forth — chapters of love and discord out of order — leaving the viewer guessing if the couple’s powerful love story will work out. Almut has more than marriage and children on her mind.

March 2, 2026

Everyone knows the success of the global Chanel line of fashion and fragrance. But what made a French orphan cabaret singer into the enigmatic designer who totally changed women’s fashion in the 1920’s? Coco Before Chanel (2009) is a fascinating portrait of couture history and the liberation of women’s bodies. You need to meet the real Coco.

April 6, 2026

Woman Like Us. Three Journeys. One Mission. To Change the World. is a powerful 2024 documentary produced by Linda Rendleman, CEO and founder of Women Like Us Foundation. Three women journey across US and Kenya to find female heroes who are confronting social injustices like sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, depression, teen suicide, access to education, and homelessness.  It’s a strong film of courage and personal commitment.

May 4, 2026

The 2007’s comedy Waitress is about naming your pies. And being pregnant and unwed in a small Southern town. Jenna gets lots of advice from co-workers, men and, of course, properly wed mothers, on what she should do (and should not have done) with her life.  But her pie-making gift just might save her.  You will love this slice of life to the last bite.