Category: Movies
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My Mom Jayne is a beautiful documentary
My Mom Jayne is a tender, loving exploration by Mariska Hargitay into her famous mother Jayne Mansfield’s life and relationships. Jayne Mansfield died in a car accident when Mariska was only three. Jayne was 34.
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Sally, Sally Ride’s historic and iconic life
Sally, a biopic about astronaut Sally Ride, tells her story in the normal biopic documentary style using archival footage, photos, interviews, and some actor reenactments. It focuses on the part of her life that stayed hidden from the public until her death, namely the information that she was a lesbian.
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The Fire Inside, true story of a great athlete
The Fire Inside tells the story of Claressa Shields and her early life in Flint, Michigan where she trained with a volunteer boxing coach. She’s now considered the world’s greatest woman boxer.
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How to Train Your Dragon, the animated 2010 version
How to Train Your Dragon now has a live action version in theaters. But I’d never seen the animated version from 2010. Since it’s currently available on Max, it seemed like a good time to find out why this film is so popular. There are spoilers ahead.
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Echo Valley review, how far will a mom go for her child?
Echo Valley is a suspenseful, emotional look at a mother and daughter relationship. When the drug addict daughter arrives home in bloody clothes, how much will the mother do to protect her child? There are some spoilers ahead.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip from Disney
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip is a cute Disney movie about a family on vacation. Young Alexander (Thom Nemer) is convinced that his constant bad luck is because of a family curse.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig review
The Seed of the Sacred Fig begins with this quote: “Ficus Religiosa is a tree with an unusual life cycle. It seeds, contained in bird droppings, fall on other trees. Aerial roots spring up and grow down to the floor. Then, the branches wrap around the host tree and strangle it. Finally, the sacred fig…
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The Good House, Sigourney Weaver has one too many
The Good House stars Sigourney Weaver as an alcoholic realtor on Boston’s north shore. Her success selling real estate and her family relationships are all suffering because of her drinking, but she refuses to face it.
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Straw tells an emotional story about motherhood
Straw from writer and director Tyler Perry is an emotional gut punch about a mother pushed to the limit by life.
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I’m Still Here, touching true story from Brazil
I’m Still Here is the touching story about a family after the father was taken away by the military regime and killed during the 1970s right wing dictatorship in Brazil.