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Musician and writer Elizabeth Sankey investigates the past, present and future of romantic comedies, assisted by a chorus of critics, actors and filmmakers.
May
12
Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a pioneer and legendary host on the late-night talk-show circuit. When she’s accused of being a “woman who hates women,” she puts affirmative action on the to-do list, and presto! Molly (Mindy Kaling) is hired as the one woman in Katherine’s all-male writers’ room. But Molly might be too little too late, as the formidable Katherine also faces the reality of low ratings and a network that wants to replace her. Wanting to prove she’s not merely a diversity hire who’s disrupting the comfort of the brotherhood, Molly is determined to help Katherine revitalize her show and career–and possibly effect even bigger change at the same time.
May
12
Ronni is living a full life as a school nurse and mom, hosting a longtime mahjong game with her best friends Shelley, Carly, and Melissa. But when her daughter leaves for college, everything shifts at once. Her hours get cut. Her ex is pushing to sell the home she loves. And suddenly she’s staring down an empty nest wondering what comes next. Then, at a school fundraiser, she discovers she has a real gift for teaching mahjong. It becomes her unexpected path back to herself, pulling communities together around the table and sparking a connection with Ben, a contractor whose family could use a little of that same warmth. As Ronni finds her footing again, she has to learn to bet on herself, and maybe on love too.
May
12
May
12
A look at the making of the ambitious natural history series Life on Earth (1979), which established David Attenborough as television’s foremost naturalist.
May
12
Two estranged siblings go to their late scientist father’s farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon discover an evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and begun wreaking havoc.
May
12
A hack filmmaker wastes the money lent to him by a mysterious organization, and so has to take matters into his own hands by locking a cast of actors in a house and becoming the villain in his own slasher movie.
May
12
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. Led by his father (a retired Marine Colonel) and supported by a rich businessman whose son is also a POW, the group engages in a dangerous and violent adventure trying to rescue the POWs and at the same time re-direct their lives.
