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Movie: Cat People
Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a Serbian-born NYC fashion designer, begins a romance with marine engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith). Oliver becomes concerned about Irena's notion that she is cursed and may transform into a large cat in the heat of passion. [more inside]
Movie: The Front Room
[TRAILER] Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda (Brandy Norwood) after her mother-in-law (Kathryn Hunter) moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere. [more inside]
Movie: The Count of Monte-Cristo
Edmond Dantes becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d'If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
Movie: Red Skies of Montana
Drama dealing with the hazardous work of the U. S. Forest Service's paratroop fire-fighters in Montana.
Movie: Mommie Dearest
[TRAILER] Renowned actress Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway), at the height of her career, adopts two orphans--Christina and Christopher--to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies. [more inside]
Movie: Merry-Go-Round
[TRAILER] Young farm girl Mari is forbidden by her father from seeing Máté, the young man she loves. Her father, sick of being told what to do, wishes to leave the collective, and sees giving his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man as his way out. But Máté is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Mari's love, and Mari herself doesn't like being told what to do any more than her father does. [more inside]
Movie: Polyester
[TRAILER] Frustrated housewife Francine Fishpaw (Divine) tries to maintain her sanity while taking care of her dysfunctional household. Her husband, the owner of an adult theater, is sleeping with his secretary (Mink Stole), and her delinquent teen son, Dexter, and pregnant teen daughter, Lulu, aren't helping matters any. But when Francine meets dashing Todd Tomorrow (Tab Hunter), the owner of a theater specializing in art films, her life appears rosier. [more inside]
Grey's Anatomy: Season Twenty Season 20, Ep 0
Imagine a young soldier, finishing his first tour in the US military... perhaps he is a sniper... maybe he drives a tank... but this soldier was not born when Grey's Anatomy premiered in 2005.
Movie: The Marsh King's Daughter
[TRAILER] Helena (Daisy Ridley), a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous ‘Marsh King’, the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father (Ben Mendelsohn) unexpectedly escapes from prison. [more inside]
The Interest of Love: The Interest of Love Season 1, Ep 0
In this introspective melodrama romance, four individuals work at a bank and become involved in a love square. Their relationships bring up histories, insecurities, and thoughts around love. [more inside]
Movie: Rebecca
A young woman (Joan Fontaine) marries a fascinating widower (Laurence Olivier) only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. [more inside]
Movie: Far from Heaven
In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world. [more inside]
She Would Never Know: (aka Sunbae, Don’t Put that Lipstick On) 2021 Season 1, Ep 16
Based on a popular 2017 Webtoon, this show tells the love story between a lovely "sunbae" and a bold "hoobae".
(hmmm . . this was taken from IMDB, but it might not be entirely clear, especially for folks who are unfamiliar with kdramas, so I added more descriptions below the fold)
IMDB Rating: 7.5 [more inside]
Just Between Lovers: (aka Rain or Shine; Geunyang Saranghaneun Sai) 2017 Season 1, Ep 16
A major accident (building collapse) takes the lives of 48 people. The lives of the survivors, those who lost loved ones, and those connected to the parties blamed for the tragic event are marked forever.
IMDB Rating: 8.2 [more inside]
Grey's Anatomy: Season 19 Season 19, Ep 0
Ellen Pompeo is a primary producer at this point and all accounts are that she is a progressive, inclusive boss who creates a positive environment people are happy to work within. So really, whether this is any good or not is incidental, if you view things through that lens.
Movie: The Woman King
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca (Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. [more inside]
Movie: Terms of Endearment
Widow Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), have a strong bond, but Emma marries teacher Flap Horton (Jeff Daniels) against her mother's wishes. When the marriage sours, Emma returns to her mother, who is involved with a former astronaut (Jack Nicholson). Soon, Emma learns that she has terminal cancer. In the hospital, supported by Aurora, she tries to make peace with Flap and her children. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. [more inside]
Our Blues: Our Blues Season 1, Ep 0
Romance is sweet and bitter — and life riddled with ups and downs — in multiple stories about people who live and work on bustling Jeju Island. [more inside]
My Liberation Diary: My Liberation Notes Season 1, Ep 0
Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives. [more inside]
Grey's Anatomy: Season 18 Season 18, Ep 0
They're really doing this: even more Grey's Anatomy. And this season, they've decided to move on to a "fictional near future in which the pandemic is over."
Start-Up: Start-Up (Seutateueob) - Full Season Season 1, Ep 0
Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea's high-tech industry. (Netflix, tvN) [more inside]
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol: Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol Season 1, Ep 0
A riches-to-rags pianist who loses everything but her smile is guided by twinkling little stars to a small town where she finds hope, home and love. (Netflix, KBS2 Korea) [more inside]
Another Miss Oh: Oh Hae-Young Again (Ddo Oh Hae Yeong) Season 1, Ep 0
A sound director who suddenly starts getting visions of someone else's future gets mired in the lives of two women, who happen to share the same name. (tvN Korea, Netflix) [more inside]
Dear My Friends: Full Season 1 (Also Known As: My Dear Friend, Dieo Mai Peurenjeu) Season 1, Ep 0
Life is ever-delightful — and ever-challenging — for a group of friends in their twilight years as they rediscover themselves through love and family. (Netflix, tvN Korea) [more inside]
Tomorrow with You: Season 1 - all episodes Season 1, Ep 0
The head of a real estate firm with the ability to travel through time by taking the subway marries a photographer to try and change his future. (Netflix US, tvN Korea) [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Real Life Rewatch Season 3, Ep 22
This is the true story… of three holograms… programmed to live in a house… to be a holographic doctor's family… to find out what happens… when people stop being characters… and start getting real. [more inside]
Movie: All About My Mother
THE SPIRIT OF 99 VIEWING CLUB - Following the death of her son, Manuela goes to tell the sad news to her boy's father, who is living as a woman, amid a heartfelt encrustation of classic Hollywood tropes and references. [more inside]
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