Nonnas tells a heartwarming story about true events. It all started with a love of traditional Italian family home cooking and evolved into a restaurant where all the cooks were real nonnas (grandmothers).
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The Room Next Door from writer and director Pedro Almodóvar takes a long look at two friends as they navigate one of them facing a terminal illness. Pedro Almodóvar movies always feel a little odd to me, and this film
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The Last Anniversary is a new favorite for me. I always enjoy books and series from Liane Moriarty, and this one was outstanding. It’s a story about family, the resilience of women, and finding love.
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In Black Bag Cate Blanchette and Michael Fassbender are married spies in British intelligence. They spy on each other, on their work colleagues, and on the world. They’re chess masters manipulating the players and the moves on a life and
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Another Simple Favor again brings Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick together in a crazy twisty plot about murder. The not-so-secret Sapphic attraction between them still simmers in the background, but gets even crazier.
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The Four Seasons remakes the 1981 classic by Alan Alda into a modernized TV series created by Tina Fey and Lang Fisher. It stays close to the original thematically as it deals with three couples and their marriages through four
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Good American Family tells the Natalia Grace story from several viewpoints. The truth is subjective, depending on who is telling the story. The series starring Ellen Pompeo and Mark Duplass makes no judgements about which version is accurate, but it
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Jerry and Marge Go Large is based on a true story about a couple who found a flaw in the lottery and used it to make enough money to revive their entire decaying town and help their community. Beware the
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The Glass Dome brings dark Skandi noir to Netflix in a mini series about abducted children who were kept in a glass box like specimens.
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Widows is crammed with star power, blessed with an engaging but tricky plot, and is a paen to female empowerment. I was expecting lots of action from the women, but the story built slowly toward a few moments of action
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