You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment is a 4 part documentary detailing an experiment with 20+ sets of identical twins. In an 8 week experiment, the twins ate different diets – one vegan, one omnivore. They did all […]
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Miranda’s Victim is a fascinating story about a legal precedent established in 1966 called the Miranda warning. The story is told from the victim’s point of view. Abigail Breslin plays the victim of a rape (trigger warning, folks) by a
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Lift is an attempt at the heist movie using all the tricks and techniques you’ve seen in several outstanding heist movies before. Lift doesn’t come up to that high quality standard, but it has an interesting cast including Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
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Queen Bees is a story about how it’s never too late to make new friends and it’s never too late to fall in love. Set in a retirement home with a great cast of elders, it’s a touch of mean
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Queenpins is a lighthearted comedic telling of a story based on fact. Two women made millions of dollars selling coupons that they obtained free (okay, they stole them). A similar thing really happened, but I doubt if the real life
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Foe is set in 2065. The earth is burned to a crisp. Hen (Saoirse Ronan) and Junior (Paul Mescal) live in an old house on a dried up farm. Late one night Terrance (Aaron Pierre) knocks on their door. He
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An Amish Murder stars Neve Campbell as a small town chief of police. She was uniquely qualified for the job because she’d grown up Amish in the town and left her community years ago. She went away and came back
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Role Play is just like The Family Plan, which I reviewed last week. Except the secret assassin in the family is a woman, not a man. And except The Family Plan was kind of funny and Role Play is on
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Killers of the Flower Moon hit theaters at a time when certain factions in America want to erase the sins of the past from history. Martin Scorsese directed this movie, which takes a 3 hour and 28 minute look at
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The Brothers Sun stars an all Asian cast in a tale about family and the Taiwanese Triads. The 8 part series is an unusual combination of violence and family love and loyalty. It always feels a little tongue-in-cheek and trope
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