Month: October 2025
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Riot Women, invisible no longer
Riot Women, written and directed by Sally Wainwright, tells the story of five menopausal women who have at least 50 problems each. They deal with life by forming a punk rock band. The series will air in weekly installments in the U.S. on BritBox beginning in January 2026. I’m keeping this review spoiler free in…
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The Substance, body horror times a million
The Substance is a horror movie, more specifically a body horror movie. I sometimes miss the point of horror movies but this one I definitely get. It’s about how piggish, gross, men expect women to alter themselves to look young and beautiful for the piggish, gross men. Why haven’t we burned down the patriarchy yet?
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A Kind of Madness, family drama from South Africa
A Kind of Madness is a family story from South Africa. It includes scenes from the past, the present, and from the broken mind of the family matriarch. Most of the past scenes come from the mother’s mind and what she remembers is fractured and sometimes not real.
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Quick Takes on films and TV
This post is one of those quick looks at several films and TV shows I don’t feel the need to write a complete review about. Today’s topics will be the live action How to Train Your Dragon, Task, Maintenance Required, and Peacemaker, season 2.
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The Diplomat, S3, Keri Russell still saving the world
The Diplomat, season 3, showed its love for the binge watchers by uploading all 8 episodes of the new season on the same day. So naturally, I watched them all immediately! This series, created by Debora Cahn, is irresistible. It’s so good! High stakes drama, humor, interesting relationships, brilliant characters, sharp dialog, and outstanding actors…
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Other People’s Children, French drama with Virginie Efira
Other People’s Children (Les enfants des autres) comes from France. It stars Virginie Efira as a woman who wants to have a child but her biological clock is running out of time. She forms a deep bond with her boyfriend’s child.
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What Happens Later, Meg Ryan brings some magic
What Happens Later is classified as a romcom. Writer and director Meg Ryan calls it a romcom. Good grief, she even dedicated to the movie to Nora Ephron, her romcom mentor. Well, I have a bone to pick with Meg Ryan because this movie is not a romcom. It’s a love story. A magical, life…
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The Crow Girl, dark police procedural
The Crow Girl is a dark and mysterious British adaptation of a Swedish novel. Eve Myles, Dougray Scott, and Katherine Kelly star in this one. It starts off like a simple murder mystery but grows darker and more foul as the investigation expands. This review is of season one. Season two is filming now.
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Winner, based on the true story of Reality Winner
Winner is based on the true story of Reality Winner. She is a veteran of six years in the Air Force, where she worked translating Arabic, Dari, and Pashto. After her stint in the Air Force, she went to work for the NSA. While at the NSA she leaked some documents about Russian interference in…