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Movie: Medusa ( 2023 )
In order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.
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Movie: Sharp Stick ( 2022 )
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. She just longs to be seen. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.
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Movie: DC League of Super-Pets ( 2022 )
Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.
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TV Show: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 ( 2022 )
Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?
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Movie: Prey ( 2022 )
Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
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Movie: Mija ( 2022 )
Follows Doris Muñoz, who began a career in music talent management and met Jacks Haupt, an auspicious young singer, and both share the ever-present guilt of being the first American-born members of their undocumented families.
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Movie: Bodies Bodies Bodies ( 2022 )
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
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Movie: I Love My Dad ( 2022 )
A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.
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TV Show: Five Days at Memorial ( 2022 )
Doctors and nurses at the intensive care unit of a New Orleans' hospital struggle with treating patients during Hurricane Katrina when the facility is without power for 5 days.The limited eight-episode series is based on actual events and adapted from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink.
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Movie: Rogue Agent ( 2022 )
The extraordinary and chilling story of career conman Robert Freegard who masqueraded as an MI5 agent and fooled people into going into hiding, and the woman who fell for him, and then brought him down.
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Movie: We Are Living Things ( 2021 )
Two immigrants living on the fringes of American society hit the road in search of the truth about a shared UFO abduction.
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Movie: Free Chol Soo Lee ( 2022 )
In 1970s San Francisco, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee is wrongly convicted of a Chinatown gang murder. After spending years fighting to survive, journalist K.W. Lee takes an interest in his case, igniting an unprecedented social movement.
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Movie: Let the Little Light Shine ( 2022 )
A high-achieving elementary school near downtown Chicago is a lifeline for Black children - until gentrification threatens its closure.
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Movie: Girl Picture ( 2022 )
Three young women try to defy the persistent winter darkness in Finland. In the process, they move between dreams, reality, friendship and relationships, and try to make sense of the whole mess.
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Movie: The Princess ( 2022 )
Princess Diana's story is told exclusively through contemporaneous archive creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. It also illuminates how the public's attitude to the monarchy was, and still is.
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Movie: Emily the Criminal ( 2022 )
Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.
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Movie: The Legend of Molly Johnson ( 2022 )
A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.
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Movie: Three Minutes: A Lengthening ( 2022 )
A snippet of 16mm film offers an emotionally charged, meditative glimpse into the lives of the unsuspecting Jewish citizens of a small Polish village at the precipice of World War II.
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TV Show: Lost Ollie ( 2022 )
Lost Ollie is the tale of a lost toy searching across the countryside for the boy who lost him, and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend.
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Movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing ( 2022 )
A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
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Movie: The Youth Governor ( 2022 )
Follows a group of 4,000 teenagers as they run a government complete with elections, legislators, lobbyists, and political party bosses.
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Movie: Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby ( 2022 )
It follows the career of Atlanta rapper Lil Baby and his rise in rap and pop culture.
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Movie: Funny Pages ( 2022 )
A bitingly funny coming-of-age story of a teenage cartoonist who rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.
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Movie: Alienoid ( 2022 )
The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.
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Movie: Breaking ( 2022 )
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life.
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Movie: Explorer ( 2022 )
A portrait of the "world's greatest living explorer" Sir Ranulph Fiennes, a film that goes beyond the record breaking achievements to explore the man behind the myth.
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Movie: Blind Ambition ( 2021 )
Four Zimbabwean men form their country's first Wine Tasting Olympics team.
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Movie: McEnroe ( 2022 )
It follows John McEnroe as he finally tells his side of his storied career and performances on the court.
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Movie: Saloum ( 2022 )
In 2003, a trio of mercenaries escaping a coup in Guinea-Bissau take refuge in a hidden region on the Saloum river of Senegal. But something from beyond the grave awaits them there.
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Movie: Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. ( 2022 )
In the aftermath of a huge scandal, Trinitie Childs, the first lady of a prominent Southern Baptist Mega Church, attempts to help her pastor-husband, Lee-Curtis Childs, rebuild their congregation.
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Movie: The Cathedral ( 2021 )
An only child's meditative, impressionistic account of an American family's rise and fall over two decades.
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Movie: Peter von Kant ( 2022 )
Peter Von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means.
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Movie: We Are As Gods ( 2021 )
WE ARE AS GODS offers a compelling deep dive into the many sides of Stewart Brand - creator of The Whole Earth Catalog, an influential member of Ken Kesey's "The Merry Pranksters," a founder of the modern environmental movement, and today a vocal advocate for bringing back extinct species of animals and plants. Brand's approach to his work and life influenced many, including Steve Jobs, who have gone on to shape our modern world. Now in his 80's, he looks to leave a legacy for the future with his Long Now Foundation and efforts to "enhance biodiversity through the genetic rescue of extinct and endangered species." The man who coined the phrase "we are as gods and might as well get good at it" is now under fire from former allies who believe he's gone too far, but Brand won't be easily deterred from a mission he feels is necessary to save the future of the planet.
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Movie: Hold Me Tight ( 2023 )
A woman one day simply walks out on her family. Or does she?
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Movie: Barbarian ( 2022 )
A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
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Movie: Dos estaciones ( 2022 )
In the bucolic hills of Mexico's Jalisco highlands, iron-willed businesswoman Maria Garcia fights the impending collapse of her tequila factory.
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Movie: House of Darkness ( 2022 )
Hap offers Mina a ride home with ulterior motives, but his night takes a turn when he learns she lives in a creepy American castle...and the shadowy figures in the corridors make it clear that he isn't welcome.
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Movie: True Things ( 2022 )
It follows a young woman living on the fringes of society who becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
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Movie: Speak No Evil ( 2022 )
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
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Movie: Do Revenge ( 2022 )
Drea and Eleanor agree to go after one another's bullies.
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Movie: God's Country ( 2022 )
When a college professor confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
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Movie: The Woman King ( 2022 )
A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Movie: Moonage Daydream ( 2022 )
A cinematic odyssey exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey. From visionary filmmaker Brett Morgen, and sanctioned by the Bowie estate.
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Movie: Riotsville, U.S.A. ( 2023 )
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.
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Movie: The African Desperate ( 2022 )
This coming-of-age comedy tracks one very long day for Palace Bryant, a newly minted MFA grad whose final 24 hours in art school become a real trip.
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Movie: Nothing Compares ( 2022 )
Following the career of singer Sinéad O'Connor through her rise to fame and how her iconoclastic personality led to her exile from the pop mainstream.
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Movie: The Justice of Bunny King ( 2022 )
A triumph over adversity tale about women fighting their way back from the bottom of society.
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Movie: Petrov's Flu ( 2021 )
A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. While suffering from the flu, Petrov is carried by his friend Igor on a long walk, drifting in and out of fantasy and reality.
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Movie: A Jazzman's Blues ( 2022 )
Follows an investigation into an unsolved murder unveiling a story full of forbidden love, deceit and a secret.
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Movie: Athena ( 2022 )
Hours after the tragic death of their youngest brother in unexplained circumstances, three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos.
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Movie: The Munsters ( 2022 )
Reboot of "The Munsters," that followed a family of monsters who moves from Transylvania to an American suburb.
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TV Show: Hostages ( 2022 )
Series explores the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 and the tumultuous history of U.S./Iran relations. On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. What was planned as a 48-hour sit-in to protest American imperialism, ballooned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days. With never-before-seen archival footage and revelatory new interviews with the American hostages and Iranian hostage-takers alike, the series is a gripping chronicle of one of the most dramatic international deadlocks in American history, a deep dive into the geo-political history that led to the crisis, and an exploration of the political fallout that reverberates today.
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Movie: Hocus Pocus 2 ( 2022 )
Two young women accidentally bring back the Sanderson Sisters to modern day Salem and must figure out how to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking havoc on the world.
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Movie: Dead for a Dollar ( 2022 )
A famed bounty hunter runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before.
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Movie: Vesper ( 2022 )
Struggling to survive with her father after the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, 13-year-old Vesper must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future.
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Movie: Sirens ( 2023 )
Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
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Movie: Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon ( 2022 )
A girl with unusual powers escapes from a mental asylum and tries to make it on her own in New Orleans.
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Movie: Entergalactic ( 2022 )
Jabari, a charming, streetwear-clad artist on the cusp of real success. After a chance run-in with his cool new photographer neighbor, Meadow, Jabari has to figure out whether he can make space for love in his life.
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Movie: I Didn't See You There ( 2022 )
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into a meditative journey exploring the history of freakdom, vision, and (in)visibility. Shot entirely from director Reid Davenport's physical perspective - mounted to his wheelchair or handheld - the film serves as an unequivocal rebuke to the norm of d...Read all
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Movie: Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive ( 1990 )
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
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Movie: Stay the Night ( 2022 )
A failed work opportunity prompts chronically single Grace to pursue a one night stand with a stranger. Turns out he's an on-the-outs professional athlete in town with a problem of his own. Maybe they can help each other.
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TV Show: The Midnight Club ( 2022 )
Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
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Movie: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile ( 2022 )
Feature film based on the children's book about a crocodile that lives in New York City.
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Movie: Triangle of Sadness ( 2022 )
A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.
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Movie: Tár ( 2022 )
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
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Movie: The Same Storm ( 2021 )
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Movie: Till ( 2022 )
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
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Movie: Decision to Leave ( 2022 )
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
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Movie: Stars at Noon ( 2022 )
A young American journalist stranded in present-day Nicaragua falls for an enigmatic Englishman who seems like her best chance of escape. She soon realizes, however, that he may be in even greater danger than she is.
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Movie: Brother's Keeper ( 2022 )
Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy's desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy.
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Movie: The Return of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Carlile ( 2022 )
Decades after Tanya Tucker slipped from the spotlight, music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya's extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history.
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Movie: Black Adam ( 2022 )
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods--and imprisoned just as quickly--Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
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Movie: Aftersun ( 2022 )
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...
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Movie: All That Breathes ( 2023 )
Amidst the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the Black Kite.
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Movie: The Banshees of Inisherin ( 2022 )
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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Movie: The Stranger ( 2022 )
Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
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Movie: Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues ( 2022 )
Follow the life and legacy of the master and so-called founding father of jazz, America's first pop star, and cultural ambassador.
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Movie: Holy Spider ( 2023 )
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
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Movie: Wendell & Wild ( 2022 )
Two scheming demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, enlist the aid of 13-year-old Kat Elliot to summon them to the Land of the Living.
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Movie: Call Jane ( 2022 )
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
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Movie: Is That Black Enough for You?!? ( 2022 )
Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.
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Movie: Enola Holmes 2 ( 2022 )
Now a detective-for-hire, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends - and Sherlock himself - to unravel.
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Movie: I'm Totally Fine ( 2022 )
Vanessa, a woman in mourning, takes a solo trip to clear her head after the death of her friend, but her self-care vacation plans change when she's met with an out-of-this-world situation.
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Movie: Utama ( 2022 )
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
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Movie: Calendar Girls ( 2022 )
Florida's most dedicated dance team for women over 60, shaking up the outdated image of "the little old lady," and calling for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.
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Movie: Something in the Dirt ( 2022 )
Maverick filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead offer up a twisted reflection of our paranoid times in this inventive mix of buddy comedy and sci-fi thriller.
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Movie: Soft & Quiet ( 2022 )
Playing out in real time, an elementary school teacher organizes a mixer of like-minded women, when she encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.
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Movie: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story ( 2022 )
Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.
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Movie: Causeway ( 2022 )
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
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TV Show: The English ( 2022 )
Set in the mythic mid-American landscape in the year of 1890, The English follows Cornelia Locke, an Englishwoman who arrives into the new and wild landscape of the West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. Upon meeting Eli Whipp, an ex-cavalry scout and member of the Pawnee Nation by birth, they join together and discover a shared history which must be defeated at all costs, if either of them are to survive.
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Movie: Un couple ( 2022 )
The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
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Movie: Nothing Lasts Forever ( 2023 )
Illusions and reality merge, where authenticity and imagination overlap, and questions arise about the value we place on the goods around us.
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Movie: My Father's Dragon ( 2022 )
Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.
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Movie: Stutz ( 2022 )
Follow Hill and his therapist as he has candid discussions of mental health and the progressively worsening anxiety attacks related to movie promotion that have turned his dream job into a nightmare.
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TV Show: Pepsi, Where's My Jet? ( 2022 )
The year was 1996, and the cola wars were raging. Despite Pepsi's celeb-soaked advertisements, Coke still held the bigger market share, so the second-place brand decided to roll out their biggest campaign ever: Called "Pepsi Stuff," it featured a soon-to-be infamous commercial implying that if you just bought enough of their products, you could use "Pepsi Points" to purchase sunglasses, leather jackets… and maybe a Harrier jet? Pepsi execs assumed the astronomical "price" of the military plane was set high enough to indicate it was a joke, but college student John Leonard saw it as a challenge, and decided to call their bluff. Enlisting the help (and funding) of mountaineering buddy Todd Hoffman, Leonard hashed out a plan to score the grandest prize of all – even if it never existed in the first place. Shot in a rollicking, irreverent style and soaked in the music and culture of the mid-'90s, Pepsi, Where's My Jet? sits down with Leonard, Hoffman, the commercial's creative team, and a truly unexpected cast of tangentially-involved public figures to tell the legendary tale of the kid who sued Pepsi for a fighter jet, and became the hero of a new generation.
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Movie: Master of Light ( 2022 )
George Anthony Morton, a classical painter who spent ten years in federal prison travels to his hometown to paint his family members. Going back forces George to face his past in his quest to rewrite the script of his life.
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Movie: Bantú Mama ( 2021 )
After being arrested in the Dominican Republic, an Afropean woman escapes and is sheltered by 3 minors, in a dangerous district of Santo Domingo. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.
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TV Show: Fleishman is in Trouble ( 2022 )
The series centers on recently separated fortysomething Toby Fleishman, who dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth, before he got married at the tail end of medical school. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the kids and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return.
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Movie: She Said ( 2022 )
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation - a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
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Movie: Bad Axe ( 2022 )
A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump's rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream alive in the face of a pandemic, Neo-Nazis, and generational scars from the Killing Fields.