Babes is laugh-out-loud funny. It’s a story about two lifelong friends as they attempt to settle into adulthood, parenting, and each other’s quirks.
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In Work It, Quinn (Sabrina Carpenter) has spent her entire school career making her credentials look good enough to be admitted to Duke University. She’s got a 4.0, does volunteer work, plays cello, belongs to some extracurricular groups. She should
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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
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Survival of the Thickest (a terrible title, by the way) takes on several themes and story arcs. To get through them all in 8 half hour episodes is quite the feat from Michelle Buteau, who wrote the series based on
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Marry Me, the latest romcom starring Jennifer Lopez, makes fun of celebrity culture, makes math teachers look good, and includes some impressive singing and dancing. For a genre movie, it swings for the fences and does a good job of
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Moonshot is a sci-fi romcom. It aims, not for the moon, but for Mars. I watch a lot of romcoms and the genre usually works for me, but this one came up short in several ways.
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The Principles of Pleasure is a three episode docu-series about women’s sexual health and pleasure. It features scientists, educators, therapists, and many interviews with ordinary women. This isn’t schoolyard gossip or the mythology of the patriarchy – this is the
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Awkwafina is Nora from Queens is a comedy series about Awkwafina’s own life from the time before she became well-known. It’s available on its home channel of Comedy Central and also on HBO Max, which is where I binge watched
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Tales of the City was revived in 2019 from the stories by Armistead Maupin. Lauren Morelli is the creator behind the new series, which I found to be very much a series of right now. Contemporary.
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Always Be My Maybe stars Randall Park and Ali Wong in a romantic comedy about two childhood friends who reconnect after about 15 years apart. The plot is standard romcom material, made noteworthy for its Asian lead characters. That makes
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