The Piano Lesson brings another August Wilson play onto the big screen. This one is set in the 1930s and details a few days in the life of a family arguing over an heirloom piano.
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Christmas Island is a Hallmark Christmas romcom. It’s streaming on Netflix now, which is my way of telling you that a whole lot of Hallmark Christmas movies are now on Netflix. This one stars Rachel Skarsten, a favorite of mine,
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Joy is based on the true story of how IVF came to be. It documents several years of struggle that a scientist, a gynecologist, and a nurse went through to find a way to make it work and see the
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Whitstable Pearl, season 3, continues its streak of warm, cozy mysteries and crimes in the small English coastal town of Whitstable. All the episodes of season 3 are available now on Acorn TV.
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Blitz stars Saoirse Ronan as a mother who tries to send her child to safety outside London during the Blitz at the beginning of World War II. The real star of the movie is Elliott Heffernan, her young son, who
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Close to You is a story about love and family. Elliot Page stars as Sam, a trans man going home for the first time in several years because it’s his father’s birthday. There’s a secondary plot about an old love
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The Mothers of Penguins (Matki pingwinów) is a heartwarming Polish series about parents with differently abled children who must find a suitable school for their kids. The are four families featured – three led by moms and one led by
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A Man on the Inside stars Ted Danson, who has picked yet another excellent comedy role to keep us glued to our screens in half hour increments. The setup is perfect for many more seasons. I’ll be shocked if the
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Inspector Ellis (simply called Ellis in the UK) is a detective series. Sharon D. Clarke stars as a detective “with the mind of a jaguar” who is dispatched to rural locations to take over cases that aren’t going well under
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Widow Clicquot tells the story of Barbe Nicole Clicquot, the woman who defied the patriarchy in the early 1800s to engineer the success of the Veuve Clicquot champagne family after her husband’s death. Haley Bennett starred as the widow.
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