Umma stars Sandra Oh in a story haunted by intergenerational family issues. A film with Sandra Oh should have been better than this one is. I thought perhaps she was interested in acting (and producing) this story because it featured […]
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Virgin River just released season 4 on Netflix. Season 5 is on the way. As I watched season 4, I pondered the question, “Why is this show so popular?” I decided it was because it’s about real people living real
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Pretty Hard Cases is a blend of cop drama and laughs in this Canadian series running as an original on Freevee. This review is about season 1. Season 2 is already available and season 3 is in the making.
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Leverage: Redemption is a series for anyone who is tired of stories about rich people being cast as heroic. This series is about a group of criminals who force justice on the rich by making them pay for their misdeeds.
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The Essex Serpent was all over the place tonally. Parts of it felt like a horror story, parts of it were about an amazing woman ahead of her time, and parts of it were love story. The way people act
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Marry Me, the latest romcom starring Jennifer Lopez, makes fun of celebrity culture, makes math teachers look good, and includes some impressive singing and dancing. For a genre movie, it swings for the fences and does a good job of
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Newton’s Law is a cheerful legal drama about Australian solicitor Josephine Newton, played beautifully by Claudia Karvan. Although Newton’s Law aired there in 2017, it just reached Acorn TV for viewers in the U.S.
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Petite Maman from French writer and director Céline Sciamma attracted a lot of attention when it came out, as her work frequently does. It’s a charming and magical tale of childhood and love.
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Season 2 of Love and Anarchy (Kärlek & Anarki) from Sweden is technically a comedy, but it’s dark and full of pain. The main character, Sofie (Ida Engvoll), goes through a deep and dark time.
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Good Luck to you, Leo Grande is a beautiful film about an older woman and a sex worker. He not only manages to deliver sexual pleasure to her for the first time in her life, he also teaches her she
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