Jasmine Shangreaux in Jazzy

Jazzy, a film about BFFs and growing up

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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Joanna Scanlan, Iwan Rheon, and Alexandra Roach in The Light in the Hall

The Light in the Hall, a Welsh mystery series

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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Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Sophie Okonedo, Alicia Keys, and Jennifer Hudson in The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees, revisiting an old favorite

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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Gideon Glick in Étoile Photo by Philippe Antonello/Philippe Antonello/Prime - © Amazon Content Services LLC

Étoile, a triumph of a series

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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Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone in Forever Photo by ELIZABETH MORRIS/ELIZABETH MORRIS/Netflix - © 2024 Netflix, Inc.

Forever, Judy Blume’s teen drama reimagined

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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Jeanne Goursaud in Exterritorial, © SashaOstrov / Netflix

Exterritorial, woman led action movie

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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