Month: May 2026
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Celeste, undercooked Australian movie
Celeste had a career as a well-known opera singer. When her husband died 10 years earlier she stopped performing. Now she’s ready to perform again. This time it will be at her overgrown and moss covered estate in North Queensland instead of in a concert hall.
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Rosemead, based on a true story
Rosemead tells a tragic but true story starring an incredible Lucy Liu as an immigrant mother dealing with mental illness in her teenage son. It’s a powerful story but very sad.
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My Donkey, My Lover & I, French comedy of errors
My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) tells a comic story about a French 5th grade teacher in love with the married father of one of her students. She follows him on his family vacation on a trail through the Cévennes made famous by the book Travels with a Donkey in the…
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My Dearest Señorita, a sensitive intersex story
My Dearest Señorita (Mi querida señorita) tells a carefully nonjudgmental story about an intersex individual growing up in Spain in the 1980s and 1990s. It is based on a previous 1972 movie. Moving the story to 1999 serves to show how little progress had been made in Spain regarding intersexuality.
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Send Help, surviving is a horror show
Send Help is a slow building horror story about female rage. It stars Rachel McAdams as Linda Liddle, who begins the film as a corporate mouse who does the work men take credit for. Along with her is the new company CEO, a misogynist played by Dylan O’Brien.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures, Sally Field befriends an octopus
Remarkably Bright Creatures stars Sally Field as Tova. Tova should be retired, but she spends her nights cleaning the aquarium and chatting to an elderly octopus named Marcellus (voiced by Alfred Molina).
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Je m’appelle Agneta, what a charmer!
Je m’appelle Agneta is an absolute jewel of a foreign film. This Swedish dramedy looks at the liberation of 50 year old Agneta as she breaks away from her old life to become an au pair in Provence.
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Reality, a reenactment of Reality Winner’s arrest
Reality isn’t exactly a documentary about Reality Winner, but almost. It’s based on the FBI recording of the search and arrest of Reality Winner, a whistleblower who released files about Russian interference in the 2016 election to the press.
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Alien Intervention, a sci-fi flick
Alien Intervention is a simple indie sci-fi flick. It’s set in the New Mexico desert (but not near Roswell). An alien arrives who can look and talk like a man. He leaves something behind for safekeeping.