LUCY AND DESI- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “From director Amy Poehler, Lucy and Desi explores the unlikely partnership and enduring legacy of one of the most prolific power couples in entertainment history.”
3/6/22- Excellent reviews from the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
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THE JUMP- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1970, the Atlantic Ocean. A US patrol boat meets a Soviet fishing vessel. A Soviet sailor jumps across the icy water onto the American boat in a frantic bid for freedom. To his horror, and to the outcry of the world media, the Americans return him to the Soviets. Through rare archival footage and a dramatic, first-person re-enactment by the would-be defector, 86-year-old Simas Kudirka, we relive one of the most unpredictable Cold War muddles.”
3/6/22- No reviews but this sounds interesting to me. TRDB.
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ROCK BOTTOM RISER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “From the earliest voyagers who navigated by starlight, to present-day astronomers scanning the cosmos for habitable planets, explorers have long made Hawaii the hub for their searching. Today–as lava continues to flow on the island–another crisis mounts as scientists plan to build the world’s largest telescope on Mauna Kea.”
3/6/22- No reviews as yet. TRDB.
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NIGHTRIDE- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “NIGHTRIDE is a wry, real-time one-shot thriller set on the midnight streets of Belfast. It places us in the driver’s seat with smalltime dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark.”
3/6/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
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GREAT FREEDOM- 2022. Synopsis by Netflix. “Persecuted for being homosexual, Hans goes right from a concentration camp to jail in postwar Germany. Branded as gay, he encounters hostility from his cellmate, but after repeated incarcerations in the same prison, the two men form an intimate bond.”
3/6/22- Excellent reviews for this German drama. TRDB.
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STRAWBERRY MANSION- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own-they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state.”
3/4/22- Very good reviews. TRDB.
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AFTER YANG- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “When his young daughter’s beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn’t know was there.”
3/3/22- Good reviews. TRDB.
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HUDA’S SALON- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Reem, a young mother married to a jealous man, goes to Huda’s salon in Bethlehem. But this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda, after having put Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers, and thus betray her people.”
3/2/22- Fairly good reviews by the critics. TRDB.
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SERVANTS- 3/1/22. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In Czechoslovakia, 1980, the totalitarian Communist regime demands allegiance from all its subjects, including the clergy. Servants follows Michal and Juraj, two conflicted novitiates whose seminary is under increasing pressure by the Party to mold its students into satisfactory citizens. With the school on the brink of dissolution, and its head priest a target for blackmail, Michal and Juraj will have to choose between collaborating with the government as informants, or becoming targets of the secret police.”
3/1/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
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MR. BACHMAN AND HIS CLASS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “MR. BACHMANN AND HIS CLASS is an intimate documentary portraying the bond between an elementary school teacher and his students. His unconventional methods clash with the complex social and cultural realities of the provincial German industrial town they live in.”
3/1/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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