Firefly Lane is a love story, but not the usual romcom love story. This is a love story about two lifelong women friends. These women were both straight and had male lovers and husbands, but the real soul-deep love story […]
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Secrets of the Elephants is a National Geographic series. Four episodes examine the lives and culture of elephants living in the savanna, the rain forest, the desert, and Asia.
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Am I Being Unreasonable? begins with a tragic accident on a train and returns to the event again and again throughout the series, each time revealing more and more of the truth about what happened. The story is told as
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Black Bags is essentially a two hander starring Olesya Rulin and Laura Vandervoort as strangers who mix up their black suitcases getting off a bus. What starts off in seeming innocence quickly turns dangerous and startling.
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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody is the latest biopic about Whitney Houston. This one was directed by Kasi Lemmons with the approval of Whitney’s family and the caretakers of her legacy. It tells her story with a focus
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Door Mouse uses its unwavering comic book noir aesthetic to tell a story about missing girls and the heroes who save them. It’s indies like this one that emphasize the importance of giving independent storytellers with an artistic vision a
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Mrs. Davis is an absolutely bonkers, absurd, trope-filled quest on the part of a nun to destroy an AI known as Mrs. Davis. As of this writing, 4 of the 8 episodes in the series are available on Peacock. I
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The Diplomat stars Keri Russell as Kate Wyler, the newly appointed US Ambassador to the UK. It wasn’t the job she wanted. She was thrown into it in mid crisis when somebody blew a giant hole in the side of
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Cocaine Bear, directed by Elizabeth Banks, tells a story triggered by a real event, but is a wild version far from the reality of what happened. It’s an over the top gory version of what might happen if an 800
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Catherine Called Birdy features Bella Ramsey in a tale about a 14 year old girl in medieval England who doesn’t want to do anything involving rules. She especially doesn’t want to marry someone with money just to save her family
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