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Movie: We Live in Time

An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance. [more inside]
posted by chavenet on Nov 3, 2024 - 1 comment

Book: The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett

Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her. It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Jul 10, 2023 - 4 comments

Movie: Wit

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Mar 1, 2023 - 1 comment

The Midnight Club: Full Season  Season 1, Ep 0

Ilonka is drawn to Brightcliffe Hospice, a place of many circles, where a secret club meets at midnight. Created by Leah Fong and Mike Flanagan (Midnight Mass, Haunting of Hill House).
posted by fleacircus on Oct 8, 2022 - 10 comments

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]
posted by oh yeah! on Jun 13, 2022 - 2 comments

Thirty Nine: Thirty-Nine  Season 1, Ep 0

Leaning on each other through thick and thin, a trio of best friends stand together as they experience life, love and loss on the brink of turning 40. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Apr 1, 2022 - 3 comments

Book: Never Rest

Nineteen-year-old Jake Margate struggles with terminal leukemia for five years and is ready to let go but his mother is not. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Apr 27, 2019 - 1 comment

Archer: Stage Two  Season 2, Ep 8

Sterling "Half Fainting Goat" Archer thinks he is going to die so is motivated to make amends. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Sep 23, 2016 - 3 comments

Longmire: The Cancer  Season 1, Ep 4

A double homicide sets off a chain reaction investigation that involves pot dealers, smugglers, Mexican Cartels, Tribal Police, County Deputies and Forest Rangers. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Jul 25, 2016 - 1 comment

Podcast: Modern Love: ‘How I Got To Here’ | Modern Love 20

Katie Couric reads Leslie Lehr's Modern Love essay about learning the true depth of her relationship with her husband.
posted by ellieBOA on May 31, 2016 - 0 comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Science  Season 3, Ep 11

This week.... [more inside]
posted by JHarris on May 10, 2016 - 10 comments

Podcast: Radiolab from WNYC: Worth

This episode contains a handful of stories that show how every time we think we've settled on a price for something, it slips out of our grasp. [more inside]
posted by jazon on Dec 25, 2014 - 1 comment

Shameless (US): Three Boys  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 5

Frank has a lump in his scrotum, and assumes he has cancer without waiting for the biopsy results. He starts to wear a tie so he’ll look nice for the Grim Reaper. [more inside]
posted by John Cohen on Jun 28, 2014 - 2 comments

Movie: The Fault in Our Stars

Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.
posted by mathowie on Jun 8, 2014 - 11 comments

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