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Christmas in Notting Hill

A departure from all of the small town America set Hallmark holiday confections, this one is set in London, where an American named Georgia bumps into a charming stranger, and appears to be the only person who does not know who he is.  (Hint: he’s a soccer star.)  A twist on the Hugh Grant/ Julia

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Byron Allen Presents theGrio Awards

The second annual awards ceremony celebrate Black achievements across film, music, comedy, television, sports, philanthropy, business, fashion, social and environmental justice air at 8pm ET on CBS, streaming on Paramount+.   A who’s who of special guests include Denzel Washington, Mariah Carey, Don Cheadle, Misty Copeland, Tamron Hall, Kevin Hart, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and

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Doctor Who: The Star Beast

In the first of three weekly Doctor Who specials, the Doctor (played by David Tennant) becomes embroiled in a high stakes battle after a spaceship crash lands in London.  He soon finds himself reunited with his former companion, Donna Noble (Catherine Tate), although her memories of the Doctor were wiped to save her life, and

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Last Call for Instanbul

In the middle a JFK airport baggage claim, a Turkish man loses his luggage to a stranger as he meets another, setting off a fateful night in New York City that begins as a classic romcom but takes a turn into something more unexpected. As they adventure around the city and the reasons for their

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Frybread Face and Me

Set in 1990 on a Navajo reservation, two teen cousins from different worlds find a way to connect during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona, where they discover the story of their family’s past and come to terms with loss, exile, and community.  Heartfelt and earnest with mature themes. Starring young

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The Naughty Nine

A brand new holiday movie from Disney+, it’s been described as Ocean’s Eleven for the elementary set, so consider this an all in the family watch. Fifth grader Andy learns that he’s made the “Naughty List” and won’t be getting presents and suspects something is amiss, so he teams up with the other naughties to

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Leo

A PG-rated animated musical comedy set during the last year of elementary school, when a class’s jaded pet lizard decides to embark on his bucket list.  From the Hollywood Reporter: “…well-timed for a generation who find themselves held hostage by their parents’ anxieties and stand to inherit a world of problems.”  Voiced by Adam Sandler,

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Fargo S5

Set in 2019, the fifth season of the darkly comedic anthology series pivots around Dot Lyon (Juno Temple), an average Minnesota housewife who is hiding a darker past, and the North Dakota preacher/sheriff (Jon Hamm) who’s been searching for her as he thwarts the law himself.  Series creator Noah Hawley set out to satirize “the

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Oppenheimer

A top Oscar contender arrives on streaming-on-demand platforms, the story of Robert Oppenheimer’s mission to change the way we wage war, and the chaos it wreaked on the world and on his life. The three hour historical epic is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Cillian Murphy, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Emily

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Saltburn

A provocative, steamy class satire set in England about a young Oxford student (Barry Keoghan) who becomes infatuated with his upper crust classmate (Jacob Elordi) and gets invited to visit his eccentric family’s estate. “This is a film entirely about desire,” says writer-director Emerald Fennell, who won a screenwriting Oscar for Promising Young Woman, “and

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