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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Hold Your Breath kicks off the October horror movie marathon with a story about a mother in the 1930s Oklahoma Dust Bowl who is convinced a malevolent spirit is breathed in with the dust, threatening her children.
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Thirteen, this Thirteen, is a BBC 5 part mini series about a kidnapped woman who escapes after 13 years in a basement. The series is from 2016 with Jodie Comer in the lead as the kidnapped woman.
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Rez Ball is like a lot of other inspiring sport stories about teams that rise above their challenges and make it to the championship. The difference is this one is written, directed, and performed by an all Native cast, many
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Penelope is different. It’s the kind of different that makes you grateful that independent creators are still getting things made. Penelope was directed by Mel Eslyn who created and wrote it with Mark Duplass.
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(Un)lucky Sisters is a lighthearted romp of a story about finding your family and finding a secret cache of euros in your dead father’s apartment.
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Lady in the Lake does have some rewards for sticking with it through all 7 episodes, but there are plenty of obstacles in the way. I almost quit watching halfway through, but now I’m glad I stayed with it.
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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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Ghostlight is one of those small indie films that are a delight to find. It probably won’t make a big splash, but it is beautifully done and touching. It’s a story of a family in crisis and how a work
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Sunny is a little something different. It’s part comedy and part mystery. It’s set in a future Kyoto, Japan where domestic robots are commonplace. Sunny is one such robot. There’s a lot of creative imagination in both the story and
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