Babygirl is the second film/series I’ve seen recently about a woman who starts acting on her lifelong secret sexual desires later in life. The other was Dying for Sex, which is a mirror image of Babygirl. Dying for Sex is […]
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Lioness, season 2, drowned itself in big ambitions and violent overreach. What started out as a story about inserting assets (lionesses) into a situation for an individual assassination turned into a war story that lost itself along the way.
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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
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The Perfect Couple is a murder mystery set in the posh world of wealth and privilege in Nantucket. It is based on a popular novel by Elin Hilderbrand. I know some of the fans of the book were worried about
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Practical Magic is all over the streamers now. Why? Because almost 30 years after the original movie released, Practical Magic 2 has been announced. Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock are on board. It’s time to revisit the original. Here’s a
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A Family Affair is a family relationship / romantic comedy starring Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, and Joey King. Most rom-coms don’t get complicated until the end of the 2nd act, but this one is complicated from the start.
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Faraway Downs is a project director Baz Luhrmann undertook during the time when everyone was stuck at home due to COVID. Luhrmann was the director of 2008’s film Australia. He had miles of film in his garage from the making
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Genius, the 2016 version starring Colin Firth and Jude Law, is about Scribner editor Max Perkins (Firth) and his efforts to corral the language of Thomas Wolfe (Law) into marketable books.
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Roar is an 8 part anthology series. Each story is about a woman and a pointed women’s issue. The list of women in front of and behind the camera is compelling and should convince you to take a look at
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Being the Ricardos surprised me. I expected it to be an imitation of I Love Lucy and it wasn’t. It was a behind the scenes look into a pivotal week in the life of Lucille Ball (Nicole Kidman) and Desi
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