Month: June 2026
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Office Romance, romcom with bonus characters
Office Romance fits the romcom mold perfectly. Cute couple, nice chemistry, upscale settings, happy ending. But this film offers more in the form of some quirky and fun secondary characters who add pizzaz to the proceedings.
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Lies We Tell, period Irish drama
Lies We Tell, an atmospheric Irish drama set in a remote castle, tells a tense story of young Maud (Agnes O’Casey) and her struggle to hang on to her inheritance while greedy relatives seek to steal it all.
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Midwinter Break, a marriage in crisis
Midwinter Break is a two-hander with Ciarán Hinds and Lesley Manville as a long time married couple who are struggling to get through a crisis in their relationship.
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A Foggy Tale, surviving oppression
A Foggy Tale follows a naive young Taiwanese girl who travels to Taipei on her own to retrieve the body of her beloved older brother. The film is set in 1953, a period of time known as White Terror under the rule of the Kuomintang government.
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Miss You, Love You and the anger of grief
Miss You, Love You puts two strangers together planning a funeral and watches as they work through grief, anger, resentment and loss by taking it out on each other.
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Blue Jean, a closeted lesbian in 1980 Scotland
Blue Jean came to my attention in the flurry of publicity after season one of The Testaments ended. I learned that Lucy Holliday, who played Daisy in The Testaments, won the 2023 BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress in a Film for Blue Jean. That sounded worth checking out.