Tag: LGBTQ+
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The Lady’s Companion, period comedy from Spain
The Lady’s Companion (Manual para señoritas) is a little bit Bridgerton, a little bit Jane the Virgin, a little bit Fleabag, and a little bit plain old romcom. Set in Madrid in the 1880s in an upper class world where young ladies had companions who chaperoned their every interaction with the opposite sex, we follow…
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I’ll Be Right There review: when family is a comedy
I’ll Be Right There stars Edie Falco as Wanda, a sandwich generation superstar. Her mom is demanding, her two kids are demanding, and her response to every cry for help is “I’ll be right there.” Is her life an unhealthy, codependent comedy of errors, or is it all she ever wanted?
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Challengers review: the girl is the game
Challengers tells a sports story about tennis and a trio of people who live in that world. The tennis, the love, the competition, the ambition, and the sex all triangles around Zendaya as Tashi. Tashi is a tennis great who injures her knee and becomes a coach.
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My Old Ass review: touching and tender coming of age
My Old Ass is a coming of age story with fantasy notes and a powerful motif about appreciating the everyday moments in life. It stars Maisy Stella as 18 year old Elliott, about to leave for college. She gets high on mushrooms with her girlfriends and meets her 39 year old self, played by Aubrey…
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Agatha All Along review: witchy fun
Agatha All Along is Marvel Comics second foray into television series entertainment following the big success of WandaVision. It takes the character Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) on a witchy, supernatural adventure of escapist fun. NO spoilers here.
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Lioness season 1 review: a thriller about special ops fighters
Lioness was created by Taylor Sheridan and has all men directors, but I was in it for the women. The women’s roles may have been written for men and gender flipped at the last minute because the women had names like Joe, Cruz, and Bobby. It’s a thriller from start to finish with a plot…
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder review, YA tale about an amateur sleuth
I can see why A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is a hit with the YA crowd. Appealing diverse characters, some LGBTQ characters, interesting mysteries, a bit of romance, and high school shenanigans.
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Crush review, a sweet and queer coming of age story
The words sex positive are used a lot in Crush, and it’s a fitting description of the entire film. The sex is at a minimum, but the acceptance is maximum. This is a happy and very queer coming of age film.
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Under the Bridge offers a dramatized retelling of a true crime
Under the Bridge is a multi-layered story about the murder of a 14 year old Indian-Canadian girl in the small town of Saanich, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia. The series is based on a book by Rebecca Godfrey (Riley Keough). Rebecca’s experiences as the writer, the experiences of the police who investigate, the life…