womens Soccer world cup 1971

Copa 71

A riveting, critically-praised documentary about the first ever Women’s World Cup soccer match captures the behind-the-scenes on on-field drama from the players themselves — and the perspective from more recent football/soccer stars on why the event was so quickly forgotten, despite its impact on their own lives.  For history buffs, soccer fans, and anyone curious

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Scifi thriller mars express

Mars Express

A propulsive, animated sci-fi mystery thriller that weaves in every hot-button AI topic, Mars Express follows a sober female detective and her android partner (whose head is the hologram and memories of a man who died) as they hunt down a female hacker under the orders of a wealthy businessman. Man vs Machine, free will,

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Black Barbie film on Netflix

Black Barbie

A timely, insightful documentary that explores how a Black Barbie was finally introduced in 1980, the significance and tensions that revolved around the new doll’s introduction, and the role of the filmmaker’s 83-year old aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, in making it happen.

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THe Beast french AI inherited trauma film

The Beast

Set in France in 2044, where AI is used to clear away the impacts of inherited trauma on DNA, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) discovers she has fallen in love with different reincarnations of a man named Louis (George MacKay), beginning in Belle Époque Paris and flashing forward to the 21st Century Los Angeles.  From Michael Phillips

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I Used to Be Funny INdie comedy drama PTSD

I Used to Be Funny

An often riveting, sometimes hard to watch indie comedy-drama about an aspiring stand-up comedienne who is haunted by the disappearance of a girl she used to nanny and a sexual trauma from her own past. I Used to Be Funny stars Rachel Sennott (Bottoms) in a potent performance from a story directed by Ally Pinkiw,

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Accidental Twins documentary

The Accidental Twins

Imagine meeting your doppelganger in your workplace, someone who matches you feature by feature, unlike your actual twin — who looks so very different from you.  A feature length doc from Columbia follows two sets of twins who may or may not have been switched, and how their new realities and identities unfold as the

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House of the Dragon S2

The prequel to Game of Thrones based on George R.R. Martin’s book Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon follows the conflict within House Targaryen 200 years before the events of HBO’s Thrones series that led to a war of succession. As it’s been two years, you’ll need a catch up on Season 1.  Here’s

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Red Sox movie Reverse the Curse David Duchovny

Reverse the Curse

Based on David Duchovny’s novel, “Bucky F—– Dent,” the multi-hyphenate X-Files star takes the lead as a diehard Red Sox fan who is determined to make amends to his son and stay alive until his team takes the 1978 pennant in this poignant if slow-paced novelistic melodrama written and directed by Duchovny himself.

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Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go

The 29-year-old breakout star of Hacks gets day under the lights with her own stand-up special, and bookends the hour long special with her “origin story” and birth at the beginning and her grandmother’s funeral at the end, with an effective treatise on climate change in between.  And impressive arc and performance for a new

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The Boys Season 4 superhero drama

The Boys S4

The subversive and shocking superhero satire returns for its fourth season, with new cast members (Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Rosemarie Dewitt) joining the over-the-top antics and post-modern skewering.  As Vanity Fair‘s Richard Lawson explains: “We mostly watch The Boys for gnarly violence and otherwise graphic material. While the show still leans too hard on that

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