How I Live Now is a 2013 film. It’s partly a dystopian future war story, partly a love story, and partly a coming of age story when survival is the all important goal.
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The Life List is one of those movies that inspires descriptions like heartwarming, tender, charming, and uplifting. It’s partly a story about grief, partly a romance, and partly about discovering life’s purpose.
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Women is Losers, from writer and director Lissette Feliciano, tells the story of Celina (Lorenza Izzo), a smart young Latina coming of age in San Francisco in 1968. The patriarchy was entrenched in everything in her life.
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Survival of the Thickest, season 2, brings another 8 episodes celebrating plus sized beauty and sexiness, queer beauty and sexiness, the beauty of friendship, and the beauty of creativity. It does it all with pointed one-liners, clever barbs and infectious
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The Outrun is a stomach churningly real look at alcoholism and recovery. Saoirse Ronan stars in this nonlinear look at a woman’s life from childhood through her early thirties.
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Those Who Remained tells of the aftermath of war for some Hungarians. It begins in 1948 as Hungary was struggling to cope with the effects of World War II. It ended in 1953 with the death of Stalin.
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Wicked, a huge hit in theaters and when rented online, is finally on a streamer (Peacock) where you can watch it as part of your subscription. I was eager to see it and watched it as soon as Peacock released
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Divorce (Rozwodnicy) pokes the Roman Catholic Church’s marriage laws in the eye with this clever and offbeat comedy.
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The Residence stars Uzo Aduba as a new sleuth who joins a pantheon of favorite sleuths such as Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes, and Benoit Blanc. As the world’s greatest detective, she gets called to the White House to solve a
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Picture This stars Simone Ashley as an aspiring photographer. She’s a part of the Indian community living in London. The film is steeped in comedy with a romance thrown into the mix for good measure.
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