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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became famous for helping capture the Sigil Slayer, but the case also left her deeply traumatized and increasingly withdrawn from public life.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…
Ridley Scott’s “The Dog Stars” imagines Colorado after civilization has largely disappeared. A devastating pandemic has killed most of the population, leaving pilot Hig, his dog Jasper and the heavily armed Bangley to protect an isolated airfield from anyone who gets too close. Hig still takes his aging Cessna into the sky, partly to scout…
Netflix’s “The Secret Woman” begins with the kind of life its heroine would have little reason to question. Louise Andersen lives with her partner Joachim on the Norwegian island of Hidra, where she runs a small cafe and appears to have found a quiet corner of the world for herself. Then a stranger tells her…
Lifetime’s “The Wrong Housemaid” turns an ordinary family home into the most dangerous place Mona could possibly be. Ten years after escaping a violent husband, the single mother has built a quieter life for herself and her teenage daughter, Denise, using new identities to stay hidden. That security begins to collapse when a woman enters…
“The Sex Lives of College Girls” has spent three seasons following Kimberly, Bela, Whitney and their expanding circle of friends through dorm drama, disastrous hookups, academic pressure and the occasional reminder that somebody at Essex College is supposed to be studying. Created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, the comedy presents Essex as an elite…
“The Last Sunrise” arrives on Prime Video on August 26 with Mallorca doing far more than supplying pretty vacation shots. Maia Reficco stars as Oriah “Ry” Pera, a college student whose chronic illness and her mother’s protectiveness have kept much of her life carefully controlled. A summer move to Mallorca changes that when she meets…
“Blue Murder Motel” gives retirement a rather poor success rate. Vanessa “Vinny” Coleman and her husband Peter “Cole” Coleman leave their careers as Australian police detectives behind and move across the Tasman Sea to run a small seaside motel in New Zealand. They have barely settled into their new life when a guest is found…
A road trip becomes impossible to escape in “Passenger,” the supernatural horror film directed by Andre Ovredal. Jacob Scipio and Lou Llobell play Tyler and Maddie, a young couple traveling together in a van when they stop at the scene of a brutal highway accident. They continue driving, only to discover that something called the…
“Her Husband’s Double Life” starts with the sort of emergency call that destroys several lives at once. Tanisha Thammavongsa plays Carrie Morgan, a paramedic who arrives at a serious car accident and recognizes Timothy Blake, the man with whom she has been planning her future. He is not alone. Sarah Cleveland’s Brianna Blake is beside…
“The Babysitter’s Double Life” begins with a college student’s financial problem and lets one bad solution create another. Courtney Fulk stars as Lia Collins, a senior at a prestigious college whose scholarship suddenly disappears. Needing money, Lia draws inspiration from her babysitting job for Ethan, a wealthy recently separated father, and launches a service pairing…
