Month: August 2022
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Review: Anaïs in Love (Les amours d’Anaïs)
Anaïs in Love (Les amours d’Anaïs) tells the quest for love story of a disorganized but charming young French woman whose life feels crazy until she falls in love with a much older and well-known woman writer.
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Partner Track, there’s a lot to like here
Partner Track is a successful series. It manages to be an indictment of the immorality of capitalism and institutionalized racism while telling dramatic stories about interesting people. A success.
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Buffaloed: a manic Zoey Deutch in top form
Buffaloed is a chaotic comedy starring Zoey Deutch in a frantic quest for the biggest, best, money making scheme she can find. All she wants to do is make money.
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Kleo, Germany gives us another delightful assassin
Kleo owes everything to Killing Eve and the creative imagination of Phoebe Waller Bridge and Luke Jennings. Creator Hanno Hackfort, to his credit, took the idea and made it uniquely different while retaining the humor, style, and charm of the original concept.
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Look Both Ways, make a choice
Look Both Ways is a cheerful comedy/fantasy/romance about making choices in life and how they work out. The message seemed to be that one way or another, life works out.
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Spin Me Round, Alison Brie comedy with great cast
Spin Me Round is a mix of comedy and suspense. Amber (Alison Brie) is the manager of an Italian restaurant in California. She wins a trip from the corporation to Italy to a manager’s school. Some strange and mysterious things happen in Italy.
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Echoes, twins make mayhem
Echoes is about twins. One is good, one is bad. They swap identities regularly so you never know if you’re looking at the good one or the bad one. The series was created by Vanessa Gazy and used all women directors.
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Wow! 6 women powered, women empowered, shows in recent weeks
In the past month or so, I’ve seen several outstanding movies and TV series that are written by or directed by women and that star women in roles where they either hold or take the power. I know I’m forgetting some or haven’t seen everything, so feel free to suggest more in the comments.
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Butterfly Breath (Pili Pala) brings tense Welsh drama
Butterfly Breath (Pili Pala) is a 2019 Welsh mini-series, just now making its way to stream on Acorn TV. It’s the story of a few fraught, life-changing days in the lives of four friends. The stress is high for these characters as they work through the situation. There will be some spoilers ahead to summarize…
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Hustlers, worth the wait, worth the watch
Hustlers has been on my ‘watchlist’ for a long time. I didn’t get to see it in a theater and it was never on a streamer that I subscribe to. But now it’s on Hulu, which means I finally got to watch it. It was worth the wait.