Twisters is a decent action thriller about tornado chasers. It’s nail biting fun with lots of menacing special effects as long as you aren’t too nitpicky about the details. Willing suspension of disbelief helps you just enjoy the thrills and […]
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Martha was a well-done documentary about the long and varied life of “the original influencer” Martha Stewart.
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Emilia Pérez is surprising and different. It’s a musical with color saturated visuals. It’s a story about Mexican drug cartels and dirty money. It’s a story about being who you are and what that can cost. It’s a story about
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The End We Start From is a tense tale of motherhood and survival during a climate catastrophe that floods England and makes the entire country’s population into climate refugees.
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The Spitfire Grill was a hit with me when it came out almost 30 years ago. It made a big impression on me. I remembered almost all the plot twists watching it again all these years later. There will be
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Janet Planet tells the story of 11 year old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) during one long summer in 1991. Her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson), is the planet around which Lacy orbits as she watches people cycle in and out of their
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My Old Ass is a coming of age story with fantasy notes and a powerful motif about appreciating the everyday moments in life. It stars Maisy Stella as 18 year old Elliott, about to leave for college. She gets high
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Disclaimer opens with a warning not to trust what you see in the frame. Then it proceeds to show you how misunderstood photographs can destroy your life.
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High Potential is a new ABC (and Hulu) series about an extremely intelligent woman who becomes a consultant for the police. It’s on Tuesdays on ABC. As of now, I’ve seen six of the 11 episodes in the season.
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Daddio takes place in a cab. It’s a long conversation between the cab driver and his fare as they drive from JFK airport to midtown Manhattan. The normal drive time is lengthened by a traffic accident that keeps them sitting
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