Month: January 2026
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The Assassin, Keeley Hawes is handy with a gun
The Assassin is everything the title suggests it will be. A one person army who can take out multiple people with one perfect shot to the head while never getting hurt themselves. Then they walk away from the killing ground without a worry or look back.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a fantasy romance
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a fantasy about finding your soul mate with help from a car rental agency and a GPS voice. It stars Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell as the couple who agree to open the doors to their closed-off hearts.
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The Crystal Cuckoo, mystery series from Spain
The Crystal Cuckoo (El cuco de cristal) is another mystery series based on a novel by Javier Castillo. In this series, a stranger comes into a small town where people have disappeared for many years and stirs things up.
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Chantilly Bridge, lifelong friendships
To understand Chantilly Bridge, you have to be old enough to remember 1993’s Chantilly Lace and to appreciate the cast of older actresses telling this story of love and friendship.
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Eleanor the Great with June Squibb in the lead
Eleanor the Great, from first time director Scarlett Johansson, stars June Squibb as a kind of elder anti-hero whose life and mature wisdom should have prevented her from making a bad decision, but didn’t. Minor spoilers ahead.
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The Pitt, season 1, a realistic day in an emergency room
The Pitt isn’t the usual medical show. The entire first season of 15 episodes takes place on one day – one 15 hour shift – in a Pittsburgh hospital emergency department. There’s not much time for anything but emergency medicine as we get to know the characters under extreme pressure.
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Belén: women fight for justice in Argentina
Belén is an inspiring story from Argentina about women rising up for justice and women’s rights. It’s based on real events. It’s particularly relevant to the current situation in the U.S. around women’s rights and women’s reproductive health.
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Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, it’s a mystery
Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials is not the typical Agatha Christie mystery you may love. The plot was less intricate. It was based on one of what Christie referred to as a “light hearted thriller,” a type of writing she began doing late in her career.
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Ponies, two unlikely spies team up
Ponies, from a phrase that means persons of no interest, stars Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson as two women living in Moscow in 1977. Both were married to CIA spies. When their husbands died, they convinced the CIA to hire them as spies so they could solve the murders of their husbands.