Food and Romance (Tisdagsklubben), from Sweden, provides a charming #EldersRock story about love, marriage, children, and food. The Swedish title translates to The Tuesday Club, and in some locales the film uses that title.
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To Leslie takes a painfully realistic look at an alcoholic mother who makes a big mess of her life after winning the lottery. Andrea Riseborough plays Leslie in a brilliantly convincing performance as the ruined mother.
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American Born Chinese brings an excellent adaptation of the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang to the small screen. A majority Asian cast builds this tale of heroism, finding your place, Chinese mythology, and magic into an exciting teen coming
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Jury Duty takes one real juror, Ronald Gladden, and throws him in with a bunch of actors staging a fake trial to see how Ronald reacts. Everything from the judge to the dinner orders is carefully planned and totally fake.
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Rain Dogs from the BBC is a series about toxic love. It’s about people facing hard times and the struggle to survive. It’s about hating the person you love. It’s billed as both a comedy and a drama, but I
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Little Pink House is a disheartening true story about how the city, state, and finally federal courts decided it was okay to use eminent domain to take a person’s home and give it to a private company.
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With Love, season 2, from creator Gloria Calderón Kellett, continues the saga of the Diaz family. Brother and sister Jorge Diaz Jr. (Mark Indelicato) and Lily Diaz (Emeraude Toubia) continue to search for solid relationships. Season 2 premiered on Prime
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Somebody Somewhere is about real people. The characters are living lives of flawed normality in Kansas. There is some drama, some laughter, some tears, some self-discovery, and a whole lotta love.
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Identity Thief somehow passed me by 10 years ago when it was released. Prime Video played it up to me as a new addition, so I gave it a look. It was funny and heartwarming, too. If you missed it
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, season 5, took an “everything including the kitchen sink” approach to wrapping up this funny series. There were flashbacks and flash forwards, there were musical episodes, there was a roast, there were shows within shows, there
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