Month: July 2025
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Drop, exciting thriller with Meghann Fahy
Drop is a suspenseful thriller about a widowed mom who is pressured to murder someone to save her young son from a killer.
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Signature Move, love and wrestling
Signature Move does a lot of things right, even though it isn’t the best movie ever. It’s a love story and an homage to Lucha Libre and luchadoras.
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Secrets We Keep (Reservatet), Danish crime drama
Secrets We Keep was originally titled Reservatet which translates to “The Reserve,” a wealthy neighborhood north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It’s a dark drama of wealth, power, exploitation, and murder. There are no spoilers in this review.
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Stay the Night, a slow romance told in one night
Stay the Night is an everything-happens-in-one-day kind of romance. Two people having their own separate bad days meet in a bar and stumble through a lot together before the morning.
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Allswell in New York, a family story
Allswell in New York looks in on the lives of an extended family as they deal with their problems and struggles and stick together through the hard times.
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Ballard stars Maggie Q in an outstanding mystery series
Ballard is another mystery series based on novels by Michael Connelly. Maggie Q stars in this one as Det. Renée Ballard who has been stuck in a basement working cold cases with a team of unpaid volunteers.
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On Becoming a Guinea Fowl review
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a rich, textured tale of family secrets revealed during a traditional Zambian funeral. Thematically, it shows how patriarchal systems and customs are enforced by both men and women. There are some spoilers ahead.
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The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie
The Great Dictator is an anti-Nazi political satire from 1940, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. He makes fun of dictators, which we have come to realize since then are all alike: narcissistic bullies who can’t take criticism and want to run the entire world according to their whims.
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Ironheart review, not Marvel’s best
Ironheart tells more about Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), a character we met in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Just to clear up something right away, it is not about Riri Williams trying to make herself into another Iron Man or replace Tony Stark. There is an iron suit involved, but nobody is displacing Tony Stark in…
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National Anthem, a world hidden in plain sight
National Anthem plunks a New Mexico day laborer into a world he never knew existed when he gets a job on a ranch run by a large group of queer rodeo riders.