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Lifetime’s The Monster She Married brings a real British Columbia case back to the same part of Canada where the events behind the film unfolded. Molly Saunders stars as Shelley Charalambous, a woman forced to reconsider the life she has built with her husband Joseph after disturbing questions emerge about his treatment of young patients.…
Lifetime’s Her Only Way Out follows Kelly McKenzie, a woman who realizes that simply ending her relationship with Derrick will not be enough to get away from him. After surviving a crash and being pressured into silence, Kelly takes the extraordinary step of staging her own death and starting again under another identity. Her escape…
Hallmark’s The Spirit of Halloween gives the familiar structure of A Christmas Carol an autumn makeover. Meghan Ory plays Everly Stone, a successful bridal designer who wants nothing to do with Halloween after a painful experience years earlier. When her late mentor appears with a warning, three spirits take Everly through her past, present and…
Love of Your Life follows Maya through almost a decade of romance, grief and reinvention, and director Rachel Morrison makes the changing places around her part of that journey. Margaret Qualley leads the Amazon MGM Studios drama as Maya, a Boston emergency room nurse whose chance meeting with Charlie, played by Gabriel Basso, opens her…
Signora Volpe has always made its Italian setting feel like more than attractive scenery. Emilia Fox stars as Sylvia Fox, a former British intelligence officer who arrives in Italy for her niece’s wedding and gradually trades London for a quieter life in Umbria. Quiet, however, proves relative. Missing people, old secrets and suspicious deaths repeatedly…
CBS’s Cupertino takes its name from one of the most famous cities in Silicon Valley, but the legal drama was largely created on the opposite side of the country. Mike Colter stars as Michael Price, a lawyer who turns against the technology industry after being denied the stock options he believes he is owed. Rachel…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy turns an ordinary family home into the center of a deeply unsettling supernatural story. Jessica Chastain plays Ursula as well as the entity that takes on her appearance, while Arabella Olivia Clark stars as eight-year-old Bela, the child who begins communicating with the figure she calls Other Mommy. Jay Duplass plays…
A beach bar built on a Vancouver shoreline in November is a good place to begin looking for The Social Reckoning. Aaron Sorkin’s film used the Canadian city for a story centered on American people and institutions, finding locations that could suggest a very different world from the one outside the camera frame. The filming…
After nearly two decades of turning Canadian streets, heritage buildings and carefully constructed sets into early 20th-century Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries gives its twentieth season a noticeably different visual identity from the moment William Murdoch appears overseas. Season 20 premiere “The Maltese Falconer” follows Murdoch to Malta, where his reunion with mystery writer Nigella Fletcher develops…
Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother follows Latif, played by Mahershala Ali, through a Houston shaped by grief, faith, family and competing communities. After the loss of his wife, the devout father and former contract killer is left caring for three children while circumstances pull him back toward a life he had hoped…
Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Digger gives Tom Cruise one of the most unusual roles of his career. He plays Digger Rockwell, an enormously powerful oil magnate whose actions help push the world toward an environmental crisis, forcing him into an increasingly desperate attempt to prove that he can also be the man who saves it. Riz…
Tenzing brings the 1953 Everest expedition to the screen through the story of Tenzing Norgay. Jennifer Peedom’s film uses an international production landscape, with Himalayan settlements and snowy climbing terrain contributing different parts of that world. Its locations become easier to follow once the places in the story are separated from the sites where the…
