Month: June 2023
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Music, Sia’s vivid imagination
Music is what I ended up watching weeks into the writers’ strike when the streamers are full of old material I’ve already watched. This first effort as a filmmaker by Sia is definitely not good, but I watched it all the way through anyway.
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Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico, yummy
Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico takes the actress on a long and delicious tour of Mexico from the perspective of great food. She finds the hot culinary capitals and the most renowned chefs to tell the story of Mexico.
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Wildflower: predictably heartwarming true story
Wildflower tells a true story meant to tug on your heartstrings. It’s totally predictable, but a good cast and some humor make it worth the watch.
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7 Things to Love about Happy Valley, season 3
The British series Happy Valley has been an outstanding triumph of great writing and brilliant acting. It returned after a long wait of almost 8 years for its 3rd and final season. It was worth the wait. There are spoilers ahead in this discussion.
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The Lake, season 2, broad comedy with lots of LGBTQ+ love
Canadian series The Lake is back with season 2 on Prime Video. Like season 1 of this series, the new season is full of broad humor and a diverse cast plus more LGBTQ+ characters.
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Never Have I Ever, season 4, the kids have grown up
Never Have I Ever, season 4, is the final season of this coming of age comedy. It’s the last year of high school for Devi (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) as she and her friends move toward their adult lives. There’s excitement and many wrong moves on Devi’s part, but I assure you the kids are all right.
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How Do You Measure a Year? short doc about growing up
How Do You Measure a Year? from director and father Jay Rosenblatt captures 16 years of growth in a short documentary. Rosenblatt interviewed his daughter Ella every year on her birthday. This film is the result.
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Where the Tracks End (El Último Vagón), get schooled in Mexico
Where the Tracks End (El Último Vagón) tells a heartwarming story from Mexico about education, family, and the value of a good book. It stars Adriana Barraza as a teacher in an impoverished Mexican village near a railroad line being built.
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Being Mary Tyler Moore, an influencer before the term was a thing
Being Mary Tyler Moore, a documentary from director James Adolphus, is less about Mary Tyler Moore as a person and more about her influence on culture and feminism.
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The Snow Girl (La chica de nieve), a Spanish drama
The Snow Girl (La chica de nieve) is a dreary Spanish drama about a kidnapped child. Most of the characters are suffering from a trauma of some kind. This dead serious series teems with depressed characters, an abundance of talk about evil men, grieving parents, sexual assault victims, and frightened women and children. There are…