Falling for Figaro is a light romantic comedy featuring some heavy duty opera singing. If opera makes your ears bleed, this one isn’t for you. Otherwise its a fun story about big dreams and hard work.
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Criminal Record has lots of male energy, nevertheless it stars Cush Jumbo as DS June Lenker. When a worrisome 999 call comes in June is put at odds with the powerful DCI Daniel Hegarty (Peter Capaldi) over an old murder
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Revoir Paris from writer and director Alice Winocour, is about a woman who is traumatized in a mass shooting in a Paris bistro. She survives, one of the few who did, but blanked out the memory of what happened. She
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The Holdovers has earned nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph this year. It’s a heartwarming story set in a boys’ boarding school over the Christmas holidays. The boys who can’t go home for the
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The Abyss is a nail biter of a disaster movie from Sweden, based in fact. The city of Kiruna, Sweden is a real city with a real iron mining operation that has been ongoing for hundreds of years. The Swedes
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In This is Me . . . Now, Jennifer Lopez tells her own story using the language of music, dance, lyrics, metaphor, imagery, and drama. She calls herself “The Artist” in this. As an artist, she uses the tools of
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I know The Color Purple is meant to liberate Black women, but I’ve always loved it. I’ve read the book by Alice Walker multiple times, I’ve seen the original movie multiple times. What I had not done was see the
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One Fine Morning (Un beau matin) stars Léa Seydoux in a gentle and sweet character study. This French film was written and directed by Mia Hansen-Løve. The work I’ve seen from this director in the past was introspective and seemingly
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Vigil, season 2, retains the name of the submarine from season 1, but everyone is above the water this season. Some time has passed between the two seasons. Long enough for Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) and Kirsten Longacre (Rose Leslie)
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Oppenheimer brought up of a lot of personal history for me. I was alive during World War II. I was alive when the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. I remember the end of the war as a
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