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An elegant Irish wedding should have been one of Gethsemane Brown’s easier musical engagements, but Hallmark’s Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Prelude to a Wedding quickly turns the celebration into another murder case. The fourth movie keeps the franchise’s strongest visual element intact by once again filming on location in Ireland, rather than using Canada or another…
Joe Swanberg’s The Sun Never Sets places a messy romantic decision against a setting so striking that it becomes impossible to separate the characters from their surroundings. Dakota Fanning plays Wendy, whose relationship with Jack, an older divorced father played by Jake Johnson, reaches an uncomfortable crossroads when he suggests that they spend some time…
Surviving the Silence: The Roxane Gay Story brings one of author Roxane Gay’s most personal works to the screen. Based on her 2017 memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, the Lifetime drama follows Roxane from childhood into adulthood and examines how a traumatic experience at age 12 affected her relationship with her body, food…
Gossip to Die For follows homicide detective Quinn Walker at a particularly difficult point in her life. Recently widowed and raising her son Liam alone, Quinn returns to police work only to find herself investigating a string of murders connected to the glamorous world surrounding a famous actress. Her investigation becomes more complicated when Carter,…
Adam Wingard’s Onslaught makes unusually strong use of its New Mexico surroundings. The A24 action-horror film, starring Adria Arjona as former Army sniper Celeste, was filmed primarily in and around Albuquerque and Moriarty, New Mexico, with the production using real desert locations, existing buildings and purpose-built sets instead of relying heavily on virtual environments. Principal…
Apple TV’s Mayday sends Ryan Reynolds behind enemy lines, but the Cold War adventure was assembled far from the Soviet Union. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the 1987-set action comedy stars Reynolds as U.S. Navy pilot Lieutenant Troy “Assassin” Kelly, whose secret mission over Russian territory goes wrong. His unlikely lifeline is…
Amazon MGM Studios’ The Runner turns London into more than a backdrop. The British capital effectively becomes part of the thriller’s ticking clock as Maia Marten, played by Gal Gadot, races through the city after learning that her son has been abducted. A mysterious caller dictates her movements, forcing the high-powered lawyer to keep running…
Nearly three decades after Sally and Gillian Owens first brought the Owens family’s peculiar brand of witchcraft to the screen, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return in Practical Magic 2. Susanne Bier directs the sequel, which also brings back Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing while introducing a younger Owens generation played by Joey King and…
Hallmark’s “Much About Love” gives Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” a present-day romantic makeover. Bea Bishop is a successful television director who returns to her hometown and the theater community where she started her career. Her homecoming puts her back in the path of Benny Gersten, an old flame and former stage partner, just as…
“The Copycat Killer” puts Dr. Eleanor “Ellie” Douglas back inside the kind of investigation she had tried to leave behind. The criminal profiler became famous for helping capture the Sigil Slayer, but the case also left her deeply traumatized and increasingly withdrawn from public life. Her reluctant appearance at a true crime conference goes badly…
Casper Kelly’s “Buddy” takes the cheery language of a 1990s children’s television program and pushes it into increasingly nasty territory. At the center is “It’s Buddy!,” a colorful show hosted by Buddy, a bright-orange talking unicorn who sings, plays and teaches lessons to a group of children. That carefully manufactured happiness begins to fracture when…
Netflix’s adaptation of Lynn Painter’s bestselling YA romance Better Than the Movies is moving closer to production, with filming expected to take place in Chicago. Beatrice Kitsos and David Iacono have already been cast as Liz Buxbaum and Wes Bennett, the two central characters from Painter’s popular novel. Current production information points to filming beginning…
