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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, the MonsterVerse even a woman can love

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters joins the MonsterVerse of creatures like Godzilla, King Kong, and the Titans. It has its share of gigantic CGI monsters, but is actually a story about family history, legacy, and the people who want to understand […]

Kelly Macdonald and Takehiro Hira in Giri/Haji

Review: Giri/Haji

4 Comments / Streaming, TV series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 12, 2020 / Anna Sawai, Aoi Okuyama, Charlie Creed-Miles, Duty/Shame, foreign tv series, Giri/Haji, Jamie Draven, Kelly Macdonald, Takehiro Hira, Will Sharpe, Yôsuke Kubozuka

Giri/Haji, the Japanese title of this multi-continent drama, means Duty/Shame in English. Those two words – duty and shame – encapsulate the themes and drivers of the action in this drama about family, love, responsibility and survival. It’s streaming on

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