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Staying in the Swaddle, a Tale of the Unexpected

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ADULT ADOPTION – directed by Karen Knox – (some spoilers) ⁓ Rosy (Ellie Moon) works at a bank, and, as the story begins, her boss Susan (Jennifer Wigmore) is retiring. Rosy does not like change and is very fond of …

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Agnes and the Cyclone, June and the Robber Baron

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THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART – Episodes 1 through 3 – (limited spoilers) In each of these episodes we get the origin story of a main character, and each of them sounds like a smokescreen designed to hide the …

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Why do the Birds go on Singing?

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FAMILY LAW – Season 2 Episode 3 – SPOILERS Paralegal Cecil Patterson (Brett Kelly) wants to ask receptionist Nina Beasley (Kelli Ogumndson) out on a date, but before he can do that, she reveals her plan to backpack around the …

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Lepus – The Malice of the Moon

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RUN RABBIT RUN – directed by Daina Reid – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On her daughter Mia’s seventh birthday, a white rabbit appears in Sarah’s yard. Mia (Lily LaTorre), whose name means “lunar cycle” in the Noongar language, assumes it’s a …

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What the Cast of First Kill is Doing These Days

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FIRST KILL is a horror/romance created by V.E. Schwab. Sarah Catherine Hook (Juliette Fairmont) is Happy Klein, first mate on a tourist schooner, in James Khanlarian‘s adaptation of THE GHOST TRAP, a novel by K. Stephens. The book tells the …

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Things Father Used To Say

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FROM – Season 2 Episode 10 – SPOILERS Elgin (Nathan D Simmons) hears this nursery rhyme in a dream: “They touch, they break, they steal. No one here is free. Here they come. They come for three, unless you stop …

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Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire

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THE LAKE – created by Julian Doucet – Season Two – limited spoilers Couples are the focus of things. Wayne Moore (John Dore) is living in a sea plane he does not know how to fly because Jayne (Natalie Lisinska) …

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I Don’t Believe Him (Morning Is Mocking Me)

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SIMULANT – directed by April Mullen – written by Ryan Christopher Churchill – SPOILERS ⁓ This is the story of Faye (Jordana Brewster) and Evan (Robbie Amell), a wealthy married couple who purchased simulant replicas of themselves as a means …

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Your Songs Remind Me of Swimming

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Les cinq diables (The Five Devils) – directed by Léa Mysius – SPOILERS Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramé) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from which …

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Thoughts on FROM at the Mid-point of Season Two

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speculative recap – SPOILERS Sarah Meyers (Avery Konrad) was brought back to town by the same Farway Tree that saved the life of Sheriff Boyd (Harold Perrineau). Nearly everyone but Boyd and the empathic new arrival Elgin (Nathan D Simmons), …

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Just An Old Fashioned Love Song

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VOLITION – directed by Tony Dean Smith – SPOILERS ⁓ “Everything you see has played out before, you just don’t know it. Most people live out their lives only experiencing the present moment – that fleeting snapshot that’s here for …

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Good Night, Milkman’s On His Way

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FROM – Season 2 Episode 2 – (SPOILERS) In the diner after dark, Mari (Kaelen Ohm) has words with Kristi (Chloe Van Landschoot). “We were supposed to have lunch,” she says accusingly. “I was on my way to meet you. …

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Bring Back My Bonnie To Me

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FROM – Season 2 Episode 1 – SPOILERS The bus had already arrived at the end of Season One, and the jukebox in the diner was playing a Neil Young song. This story begins before that because inside the diner, …

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have you seen your mother, baby (standing in the shadow)

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SURREALESTATE – Season 1 Episode 5 – SPOILERS Titled “Ghost Child”, this is the closest thing to a musical episode in the series, and was (somehow) not covered by Area 33 when it originally aired in August 2021. Some ghosts …

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What the Wynonna Earp Cast is Doing Now

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Melanie Scrofano (Wynonna Earp in 49 episodes) is Emma’s friend Wendy in Sean Garrity‘s romantic comedy, THE END OF SEX. After sending their children to winter camp, Emma (Emily Hampshire) and Josh (Jonas Chernick) try to recharge their relationship by …

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White Sand, Brain Death, Buffalo Sausage

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INFINITY POOL – a film by Brandon Cronenberg – SPOILERS ⁓ Em Foster (Cleopatra Coleman) and her husband James (Alexander Skarsgård) awaken on a clear morning, and Em is puzzled. “You said you can’t feed yourself with white sand brain …

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When the Wolfbane Blooms…

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WOLF PACK – Season 1 Episode 8 – SPOILERS Several young wolves get in trouble. Everett (Armani Jackson) is detained for a 72- hour psychiatric evaluation; Blake (Bella Shepard) and her brother Danny (Nevada Jose) are placed in the custody …

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Behind Every Tree is a Cutting Machine

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UNWELCOME – directed by Jon Wright – (limited spoilers) An unassumingly complex story containing some things that are never completely explained and other things that are only hinted at, UNWELCOME begins with a series of apparent coincidences: Maya (Hannah John-Kamen) …

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SurrealEstate Season Two Guest Cast

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These five actors appear in Season Two: Episode 2.2: Truth in Advertising Actor: Natalie Charles Character: Ileana Davis Charles was the Leithian shopkeeper in “The Harvest” (Episode 1.3 of KILLJOYS). The shopkeeper has an interesting encounter with Pawter (Sarah Power), …

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Wolves Are Monogamous and They Don’t Climb Trees

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WOLF PACK – Season 1 – Episodes 6 & 7 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After doing mushrooms at Tia’s party, Baron (Chase Liefeld) transforms into a wolf-like humanoid. Kristin Ramsey (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the first to find him in …

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Lost In Space – Cogito Ergo Cometa

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THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 4 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Angus (Ryan Adams) discovers that the crystalline substance that dissolved Brice’s glove in Episode Two is something odd. “Whatever hit us is made of a completely unknown element,” he …

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Mid-First Season Thoughts on Wolf Pack

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(limited spoilers) ⁓ It is a story is about two forest fires, both of them werewolf-connected. Eighteen years ago, in the first of the fires, Park Ranger Garrett Briggs (Rodrigo Santoro) found two orphaned wolf cubs which he adopted after …

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Trust and the Residue of Romance

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THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 2 – SPOILERS Self-appointed Acting Captain Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) is caught poking around the storage closet where Malcolm Perry (Chris Leask) was murdered. This makes Head of Security Felix Strickland (Pavle Jerinić) suspicious, …

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The Battle of Baffin Island

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SLASH/BACK – directed by Nyla Innuksuk – (limited spoilers) In the town of Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, on the east side of Cumberland Sound, four girls, Maike (Tasiana Shirley), Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth), Jesse (Alexis Wolfe), and Leena (Chelsea Prusky), decide …

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Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag

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THE ARK – Season 1 Episode 1 – SPOILERS One hundred years in the future and five years into a voyage to Proxima B, Lieutenant Sharon Garnet (Christie Burke) wakes from cryosleep on the colony ship Ark One because a …

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Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

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WOLF PACK – Episode 101 – From a Spark to a Flame – SPOILERS ⁓ For personal reasons, high school student Blake Navarro (Bella Shepard) insists on being without a phone, or a computer, or email. When a forest fire …

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There Once Was a Dormouse Who Lived in a Bed

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DOOR MOUSE – A film by Avan Jogia – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After a night of prophetic nightmares, Mouse (Hayley Law), wakes and silently narrates the start of the next issue of her monthly horror porn comic. Titled “Whoreific“, the …

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Sometimes Goodbye is a Second Chance

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LE CODE – Season One – Episodes 1 & 2 – (limited spoilers) In the opening scene, Corporate lawyer Idriss Toma is held at gunpoint in his Paris office by Carl Roussell (Stéphane Blancafort). Toma has just won acquittal for …

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