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His & Hers – Episode 1
- Title: His & Hers – Episode 1
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Adapted from Alice Feeney’s novel, the opening episode of His & Hers introduces us to a sleepy small town in Georgia which has had its first murder in a decade. Our two main characters, each presented to the audience as likely suspects with something suspicious to hide, are the local investigator (Jon Bernthal) and his estranged wife (Tessa Thompson) attempting to jumpstart her career after a year off following some kind of tragedy and breakdown.
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Hedda
- Title: Hedda
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The 2025 film adapts the 1890s play setting it in the 1950s by casting Tessa Thompson in the starring role of Hedda Gabler, a once vibrant woman now stuck in a marriage and a house she has no love for and the key cog in a party full of mostly insufferable socialites being awful to each other for most of the 107-minute runtime.
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Creed III
- Title: Creed III
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You can’t win every fight with your fists. Wait, I guess you can. Those conflicting ideas are at the heart of the convoluted third Creed film (and the first without the participation of Sylvester Stallone) which sets the stage for a serious drama about life after boxing, throws in some bat-shit crazy plot to manufacture a big fight centered around Adonis Creed’s (Michael B. Jordan, who also directs) childhood angst, and then becomes a straightforward Rocky-style boxing movie complete with extended montage and a laughably over-hyped fight to close things out.
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Selma
- Title: Selma
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Released just months before the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march through Alabama, 2014’s Selma is most notable for David Oyelowo‘s lead performance of Martin Luther King Jr. and the unflinching framing of events from director Ava DuVernay and cinematographer Bradford Young who never shy away from the brutality of racism which King and others met with grace, strength, dignity, and perseverance to fight for the rights guaranteed to them by the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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