MISS YOU ALREADY- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “Best friends forever, Milly and Jess are confident they’ll weather all of life’s struggles together, no matter how different their worlds become. But their relationship is tested when Milly is diagnosed with cancer just as Jess finally gets pregnant.”
11/6/15- OK reviews from critics and very good ones from audiences. TRDB.
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LOST IN THE SUN- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “After crossing paths with recently orphaned teen Louis, two-bit crook John forces the youngster to accompany him on a road trip that turns into a robbery spree. But as the two motor across the Texas desert, they begin to form an unlikely bond.”
11/6/15- Terrible review from critics but audiences have liked it very much. Even though I like road trip movies I think I’ll pass on this one. TRDB.
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IN THE BASEMENT- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “Behind their manicured yards and ordinary façades, all the houses in this documentary have basements, and it’s here that the occupants satisfy their obsessions — from belting out arias to collecting Nazi memorabilia to acting out sexual fantasies.”
11/6/15- Very good reviews by the critics but poor ones from audiences. Sounds like it could be interesting. TRDB.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “Drug dealer Jack buys a building in the Bronx for his parents and sibs to inhabit, but their combative personalities create mounting friction. Hoping to fulfill his idealized vision of family, Jack instead learns a lesson about failed expectations.”
11/6/15- I’ve seen just 2 reviews– both positive including 1 from the NY times. TRDB.
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THE ROYAL ROAD- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “The oldest road in California — the more-than-600-mile-long El Camino Real — serves as the jumping-off point for this cinematic rumination on both the Spanish colonization of California and the filmmakers’ own odyssey through life and longing. ”
10/30/15- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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THE PRICE WE PAY- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “As this disturbing documentary reveals, the use and abuse of international tax regulations in recent decades has enabled global corporations to avoid paying billions of dollars in corporate taxes by exploiting transnational financial havens.”
10/30/15- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
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McCULLIN- 2013. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The made-for-cinema documentary shows how Don McCullin created some of the latter twentieth-century’s most iconic images of man’s inhumanity to man. Working at a critical time in global photojournalism, he witnessed the change of ethos to publishing and editorial freedom for newspapers to print what they wanted”
10/30/15- Great reviews. TRDB.
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HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “Spanning the years 1971-79, this absorbing documentary chronicles the birth of Greenpeace, which quickly became a media-savvy organization that used the power of images as a mechanism for environmental change.”
10/30/15- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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CITY SLICKERS CAN’T STAY WITH ME: THE COACH BOB LARSEN STORY- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “One of the most respected and successful coaches in U.S. track-and-field history, Bob Larsen helped mold the careers of numerous Olympians, including Meb Keflezighi, who was also the first U.S. male in more than 30 years to win the Boston Marathon.”
10/30/15- Very few reviews, one OK and the other less OK. TRDB.
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BARE- 2015. Synopsis by Netflix. “Growing up in a small Nevada town, Sarah lives a less-than-enthralling life that turns upside-down when she meets a charismatic bad girl named Pepper. Soon, Sarah is introduced into an exotic underworld of drugs, strip bars and dangerous characters.”
10/30/15- Just 2 reviews and they are both bad. TRDB.
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