Black Doves brings mystery and a bit of fun to the spy thriller / action flick genre. A great cast lead the way, bringing along a number of colorful secondary characters with a convoluted story about an international incident.
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Close to You is a story about love and family. Elliot Page stars as Sam, a trans man going home for the first time in several years because it’s his father’s birthday. There’s a secondary plot about an old love
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The Mothers of Penguins (Matki pingwinów) is a heartwarming Polish series about parents with differently abled children who must find a suitable school for their kids. The are four families featured – three led by moms and one led by
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Emilia Pérez is surprising and different. It’s a musical with color saturated visuals. It’s a story about Mexican drug cartels and dirty money. It’s a story about being who you are and what that can cost. It’s a story about
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Wynonna Earp Vengeance is a one-off movie playing free on Tubi that brings back the main cast of the series Wynonna Earp. It’s a perfect example of what makes the #E4L (Earper for Life) crowd demand more and more of
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I Used to Be Funny is a Canadian film with Rachel Sennott as a stand up comic who works as a nanny for a teenage girl. The story is not told in linear order. Sometimes it’s hard to place events
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Badhaai Do comes from India. It the story of a lavender marriage where a gay man and a lesbian decide to hide behind a marriage so their parents and society at large will think they are not queer. That’s them
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In the Decameron by Boccaccio, ten people flee Florence during the Black Plague. They hide out in the countryside and amuse themselves by telling 100 stories during the long nights. In this TV version of the story, we don’t get
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Better Days is an odd little dark comedy about a woman in the midst of grieving over her husband’s death. Sonja Smits plays Kate, the widow, who grows on you over time until you’re really rooting for her to figure
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Domino Day: Lone Witch is a British series written by women, directed by women, and mostly starring women. Just my cup of tea. The series advertises itself as being similar to Buffy, but actually it was ripped right from the
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