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DIDI (2024)
STORYLINE: In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. (IMDb) Life if complicated. Growing up is difficult. Family and culture don’t make it easy. Add…
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HOW TO COME ALIVE WITH NORMAN MILLER
STORYLINE: Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From his formative years in Brooklyn, through his career as a preeminent cultural voice, we follow Mailer’s life through 6 marriages, 9 children, 11 bestselling books and 2 Pulitzer Prizes as he solidifies his place in the…
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KNEECAP (2024, music biopic)
STORYLINE: Kneecap is set in West Belfast in 2019. Fate brings together disillusioned music teacher JJ with self-confessed ‘low life scum’ Naoise and Liam Og, changing the sound of Irish music forever,” the description continues. “Under the name Kneecap, their band begins moulding the language to fit their tough, anarchic, hedonistic lives. A language encumbered…
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TRAP (2024)
STORYLINE: In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest outing, everyone in a large city is in a frenzy. Why? That’s because they’re up and ready to watch a concert performed by famous pop star Lady Raven. Two of her fans, a man named Cooper and his daughter Riley, attend the concert with high spirits, but things slowly…
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DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024)
STORYLINE: A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine. (IMDb) For a few years now superhero fatigue has set in. Every so…
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TWISTERS (2024)
STORYLINE: As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Cooper, lured back to the open plains after a devastating encounter years prior, and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm…
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NATIONAL ANTHEM
STORYLINE: Dylan, a 21 year-old construction worker in New Mexico, joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. While working on a ranch in the breathtaking expanse of the Southwest, they contend with the undeniable forces of nature, family, and love. (IMDb) As I sat…
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WIDOW CLICQUOT (2024)
STORYLINE: The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century. (IMDb) It’s not a secret I am not much of a drinker. On occasion I will enjoy a social cocktail. I do have a limited knowledge of wines accumulated from a background where I once…
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FLY ME TO THE MOON (2024)
STORYLINE: Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, Fly Me To The Moon is a sharp, stylish romantic comedy set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s…
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TOUCH (2024)
STORYLINE A romantic and thrilling story that spans several decades and continents; Touch follows one man’s emotional journey to find his first love who disappeared 50 years ago, before his time runs out. (IMDb) The fascination woth Touch is not the cookie cutter love story. The interracial love story has been told in…