Month: February 2023
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Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over
If you’re a certain age (like me), you can sing along with every Dionne Warwick song because you know all the lyrics by heart. In Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over, the lady herself leads a retrospective look back at her career.
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Sam and Kate: bring the fam to the family drama
Sam and Kate stars father and son Dustin Hoffman and Jake Hoffman as father and son. Sissy Spacek and her daughter Schuyler Fisk play mother and daughter. These real life families create this family drama. There are secrets, tragic histories, and blossoming romances.
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The Way Home, with Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh
The Way Home attracted my attention because it stars Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh. It’s a family story on the Hallmark channel with a sci-fi twist.
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Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile: a charming musical for the kids
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, from the book by Bernard Waber, found a new life as a musical starring a sweet crocodile who sings and dances his way into the life of a young boy. It has a good message for kids and is deep enough for the adults with them to enjoy it, too.
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My Fiona, a look at grief
My Fiona, from writer and director Kelly Walker, tells a tender and sensitive story about grief. When Fiona (Sara Amini) commits suicide her friends and family struggle to understand why and to deal with their loss.
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The 7 Lives of Lea, time travel body swapping drama from France
The 7 Lives of Lea (Les 7 vies de Léa), a French series, is a time travel story with body swapping thrown in the create a mystery around a 30 year old death.
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The Law According to Lidia Poët, an amazing woman
The Law According to Lidia Poët tells the story of a courageous and amazing woman. It’s based on the real woman who was Italy’s first ever female lawyer. Set in 1883, the Italian series covers her struggles to be a practicing lawyer. She was brilliant, brave, bold, and totally fabulous.
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Above Suspicion, a true-crime story
Above Suspicion is based on a true story of an FBI Agent and his informant. Emilia Clarke stars as a broke mom in Pikeville, Kentucky, who sees the new FBI Agent in town as her salvation. This review contains spoilers.
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Lockwood & Co, a ghostly sci-fi thriller
Lockwood & Co is sci-fi based on novels by Jonathan Stroud. It’s set in a future world where ghosts can kill you and only young people have the needed “talent” to find and destroy the ghosts.
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Your Place or Mine, above average romcom
Your Place or Mine brings a stellar cast to a slightly above average romcom. Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher are in the lead roles. There’s a terrific cast surrounding them. The film was written and directed by Aline Brosh McKenna.