Month: July 2025
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Opus with Ayo Edebiri and John Malkovich
Opus is an allegory. The dictionary defines allegory as “a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.” That’s the closest I can come to interpreting what is happening in this muddled movie.
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Nine Perfect Strangers, S2, brrr
Nine Perfect Strangers, season 2, moves microdosing therapist Masha (Nicole Kidman) into the Bavarian Alps where she aims her mushroom concoctions at a whole new set of people.
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Death of a Unicorn is silly, campy, fantasy, terror. Yeah.
Death of a Unicorn is funny. Put a bunch of great actors in a fantasy about running into a real live unicorn, give them a ridiculous plot about the perils of capitalism, and let them play. That’s what happens here.
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The Hunting Wives, say hypocrites real fast six times
The Hunting Wives is a sprawling, soapy saga of guns, sex, drugs, lies, and murder. It’s set in the MAGA world of east Texas, where every virtue is a fake cover story and every sin is celebrated in secret.
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Four films, indies, and genre work
Nothing new or extra good has crossed my path this past week. Instead I’ve been roaming among the indies and smaller films looking for something to watch. I didn’t find anything great, but I watched several fair to middlin’ things that I’ll give a short review about.
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When No One Sees Us, mystery series from Spain
When No One Sees Us (Cuando nadie nos ve) comes from Spain. It’s a series about two women investigating several crimes in a small town near a U.S. Air Base in southern Spain.
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Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths review
Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths is a Hallmark Mystery movie about fraternal twins who have been estranged for 10 years. They meet again and find themselves working together to solve a murder.
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Sophie and the Baron, a short doc about art
Sophie and the Baron is a short documentary about a collaboration between two very different kinds of artists from two different generations. The resulting film is 30 minutes of pure delight. It’s one of the Disney+ People and Places series of documentaries.
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Midnight Family, Mexican series about a family of paramedics
Midnight Family, originally titled Familia de medianoche, is based on a documentary of the same name. It tells the story of private ambulances in Mexico City and the part the paramedics riding in them play in life-saving health care. The review is spoiler free. There are many surprises I won’t reveal here.