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Review: Dark River

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / October 11, 2019 / Clio Barnard, Dark River, Dean Andrews, Esme Creed-Miles, foreign films, Joe Dempsie, Mark Stanley, Ruth Wilson, Women Directors

Dark River is an intimate family drama that tells a story of trauma, alienation, and tragedy.

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Sian Reese-Williams and Sion Alun Davies in Hidden

Review: Hidden (Craith)

4 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 10, 2019 / Craith, Elodie Wilton, foreign tv series, Gillian Elisa, Gwyneth Keyworth, Hidden, Hinterland, Ian Saynor, Lois Meleri-Jones, Lowri Izzard, Mark Lewis Jones, Megan Llyn, Nia Roberts, Rhodri Meilir, Sarah Tempest, season 1, Sian Reese-Williams, Sion Alun Davies

Hidden (Craith) is an atmospheric suspense series from Wales. A female cop and her partner hunt down a serial kidnapper of young women.

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Review: Woven

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / October 9, 2019 / Alemtsehay Wedajo, Larisa Polonsky, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ryan O'Nan, Salome Mulugeta, Tibebe Solomon Borga, Vincent Agnello, Women Directors, Woven

Woven is a fascinating film. It’s about two families in Brooklyn who live near each other and how their lives intersect and weave together.

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Ja'Siah Young and Alisha Wainwright in Raising Dion

Review: Raising Dion

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 8, 2019 / Ali Ahn, Alisha Wainwright, Black Panther, Carol Barbee, Deirdre Lovejoy, Gavin Munn, Griffin Robert Faulkner, Ja'Siah Young, Jason Ritter, Jazmyn Simon, Marc Menchaca, Michael B Jordan, Neema Barnette, Rachel Goldberg, Raising Dion

Raising Dion tells the story of a 7 year old who discovers his superpowers by accident. His newly single mom struggles to keep him safe from the giant electrical storm that wants him.

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Review: The Politician, season 1

1 Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 4, 2019 / #eldersrock, Ben Platt, Bette Midler, Bob Balaban, Brad Falchuk, David Corenswet, Dylan McDermott, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Helen Hunt, Ian Brennan, Janet Mock, January Jones, Jessica Lange, Joe Morton, Judith Light, Julia Schlaepfer, Laura Dreyfuss, Lucy Boynton, Martina Navratilova, Natasha Ofili, Rahne Jones, Russell Posner, Ryan J. Haddad, Ryan Murphy, season 1, The Politician, Theo Germaine, Women Directors, Zoey Deutch

The Politician, the latest production from Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy, is equal parts brilliant and scattered. It’s pretentiously adult but set in a high school. Thematically it jumps around from one idea to another and never quite lands. Ryan

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Review: Transparent: Musicale Finale

Leave a Comment / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 2, 2019 / Alexandra Billings, Alia Shawkat, Amy Landecker, Bradley Whitford, Cherry Jones, Erik Liberman, Faith Soloway, Jay Duplass, Jenny O'Hara, Jerry Adler, Jill Soloway, Jo Lampert, Judith Light, Kathryn Hahn, Lesli Margherita, Melora Hardin, Michaela Watkins, Musicale Finale, Rob Huebel, season 5, Shakina Nayfack, Tig Notaro, Trace Lysette, Transparent, Women Directors

Transparent: Musicale Finale takes a grieving Pfefferman family on a journey toward healing with music, Jewish traditions, and some truly bizarre turns of fantasy.

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Review: Glitch, season 3

39 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 30, 2019 / Adam Hill, Emily Barclay, Emma Booth, Emma Freeman, foreign tv series, Genevieve O'Reilly, Glitch, Hannah Monson, Harry Tseng, Jackson Gallagher, Jessica Faulkner, John Leary, Louise Fox, Luke Arnold, Ned Dennehy, Patrick Brammall, Pernilla August, Rhys Mitchell, Rob Collins, Rodger Corser, Sean Keenan, season 3, Tony Ayres, Women Directors

Glitch season 3 puts the world back to “right” and brings the saga of the risen to a final conclusion. There are a few spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.

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Marwa Khalil and Tess Harrison in Are You Glad I'm Here

Review: Are You Glad I’m Here

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 27, 2019 / Are You Glad I'm Here, Charbel Makhlouf, foreign films, Marwa Khalil, Najeeb Zeitouni, Noor Gharzeddine, Samuel Cyrenius Anderson, Tess Harrison, Women Directors

Are You Glad I’m Here is a Lebanese production from director Noor Gharzeddine. A young American woman teaching English in Beruit finds herself in the middle of a dangerous family drama.

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the interrogation room in Criminal: Spain

Criminal – 4 related series set in UK, Germany, Spain, and France

3 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / September 26, 2019 / Álvaro Cervantes, Anne Azoulay, Carmen Machi, Christian Berkel, Criminal, Criminal: France, Criminal: Germany, Criminal: Spain, Criminal: UK, David Tennant, Deniz Arora, Emma Suárez, George Kay, Hayley Atwell, Inma Cuesta, Jérémie Renier, Jim Field Smith, Jonathan Berlin, Katherine Kelly, Laurent Lucas, Lee Ingleby, Margot Bancilhon, Mark Stanley, Mhamed Arezki, Nathalie Baye, Nicholas Pinnock, Nina Hoss, Rochenda Sandall, Sara Giraudeau, Stéphane Jobert, Youssef Kerkour

Netflix series Criminal consists of 4 separate 3 episode sets of stories. They are Criminal: UK, Criminal: Germany, Criminal: Spain, and Criminal: France. Each of the episodes uses the same sets, but the cops and the languages change. Every episode

Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra in Photograph

Review: Photograph

Leave a Comment / Movies, Streaming / By Virginia DeBolt / September 25, 2019 / Farrukh Jaffar, foreign films, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Photograph, Sanya Malhotra

Photograph comes from India. It’s about a shy photographer who photographs tourists in Mumbai. He photographs a young woman who agrees to pretend to be his fiancée to his grandmother.

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