Month: April 2020
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Review: School Life (La vie scolaire)
School Life (La vie scolaire) is a French film about life in a Saint Denis middle school. It’s not an easy place to live, or go to school, or work in a school.
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Review: Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever tells a coming of age story. The heroine is a first generation Indian American teenage girl. The story is based loosely on creator Mindy Kaling’s high school experiences.
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Review: Daisy Winters
Daisy Winters is eleven years old. She’s wise beyond her years in many ways, but in other ways she’s completely unable to cope.
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Review: Thousand Pieces of Gold
Thousand Pieces of Gold, newly restored in 4K and re-released after 30 years, is a wild west romance about Chinese immigration. It was directed by Nancy Kelly adapted from a fact based novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn. Anne Makepeace wrote the screenplay. Pretty dang good women-cred for 1990!
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Review: The Legacy of the Bones (Legado en los huesos)
The Legacy of the Bones (Legado en los huesos) is a Spanish language movie streaming on Netflix. It is the second movie in a trilogy based on novels by Dolores Redondo featuring the female police inspector Amaia Salazar.
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Review: Little Fires Everywhere, season 1
When Hulu dropped the first 3 episodes of Little Fires Everywhere, I predicted that the season was going to be outstanding. I’m patting myself on the back after watching the final episode. It was even better than I expected.
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Review: The Trial (Il Processo)
The Trial (Il Processo) is a mystery and crime series from Italy streaming on Netflix.
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Review: A Date for Mad Mary
A Date for Mad Mary is an Irish movie. Mary is mad as in angry, but she also behaves in ways that the people she most wants to impress consider mad. She drinks to hide her pain and that leads to acts of violence that get her in big trouble.
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Review: Selah and The Spades
Selah and The Spades, steaming on Amazon, is an unusual coming of age story. It’s nothing like what you expect in a story about a girl at a boarding school.
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Review: The Blue Rose
The Blue Rose comes from New Zealand. The first and only season of this series can be seen on Acorn TV or Prime Video and other streamers. It’s a woman powered mystery/drama with some excellent actors.