Jazzy looks at girlhood, best friends, and growing up in a different way. We see the girls from age seven up to about 13 in the film. They are both Lakota tribal members living in a trailer park in a […]
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Yara Gambirasio (Chiara Bono), a 13 year old girl, was walking home one night in 2010 from a sports center very close to her home when she disappeared. The case, based on a real crime, took years to resolve and
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The Light in the Hall is a six part Welsh series. Reporter Cat (Alexandra Roach) returns to her small town when the convicted murdered of her childhood friend is released from prison. Her efforts to write a story about that
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The Secret Life of Bees is a perfect rewatch when you’ve reached the end of everything new on all your streamers. It stars a gaggle of women, and was written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood from a novel by Sue
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Étoile looks like a story about ballet, but it’s really a series full of funny characters, weirdos, outcasts, big egos, and rampant artistic temperament. The series was created by Daniel Palladino and Amy Sherman-Palladino who directed most of the episodes
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Forever takes Judy Blume’s novel of the same name and reworks it as a tender story of growing up and coming of age between two Black teens in LA in their last years of high school. The series was created
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Magpie takes place inside a marriage. It’s based on an idea the lead actor, Daisy Ridley, had. She produced the film and her husband Tom Bateman wrote the script. Daisy Ridley really wrung this one out with an uncomfortable look
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Exterritorial is an action movie built around a mother who claims her son was kidnapped inside the American Embassy in Germany when they were seeking passports. There’s plenty of gaslighting in the plot, aided by the mother’s PTSD from her
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Nonnas tells a heartwarming story about true events. It all started with a love of traditional Italian family home cooking and evolved into a restaurant where all the cooks were real nonnas (grandmothers).
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The Room Next Door from writer and director Pedro Almodóvar takes a long look at two friends as they navigate one of them facing a terminal illness. Pedro Almodóvar movies always feel a little odd to me, and this film
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