Month: November 2025
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The Asset, Danish crime drama
The Asset (Legenden) tells a dark story about a woman who wanted to be a police officer but gets pushed into an undercover role with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET).
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Dinosaur, funny sister drama
Dinosaur, so named because the main character is a paleontologist working with dinosaurs, is a comedy TV series from Scotland. (Hint, close captions will be helpful.) It’s about what happens when two sisters and their relationship are facing changes.
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Hedda, a classic reworked by Nia DaCosta
Hedda is Nia DaCosta’s take on the play Hedda Gabler written by Henrik Ibsen. She wrote the screenplay with several changes from the original. Although the character Hedda remained a scheming manipulator, her race was changed to a woman of color (Tessa Thompson). Hedda’s former lover, Eileen Lovborg (Nina Hoss), gender switched to be a…
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A House of Dynamite, political thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow
A House of Dynamite delivers a straightforward message: nuclear war is insanity. Stockpiles of nuclear weapons are insanity. We live in a house stuffed to the rafters with dynamite and we choose to keep living in it.