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  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

  ★★★½ Watched by Tamara 09 Jul 2022

  I like how Marvel keeps casting my fake husbands in their movies. I absolutely love Tony Leung.

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  The Staircase 2022

  ★★½ Added by Tamara

  This series is not about if the husband did it or if he was lying about everything. This is about how every character tries to flee Durham, North Carolina, but something always gets in the way. Too bad Toni Collette had to die a dozen times only to find that the afterlife is in Cary.

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  Hereditary 2018

  ★★★★½ Watched by Tamara 19 Jun 2018 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The thing with horror movies is that in a sick, gruesome way, they are a form of escapism. What happens in them can’t possibly happen in real life. The plot, the mayhem and the monsters are scary enough to provoke emotion while still feeling distant from what’s unfolding on the screen. “Hereditary” is not one of those movies; you will need something else to escape from this.
  Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro make up the Grahams,…

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  I Am Somebody 1970

  ★★★★ Watched by Tamara 19 Jan 2020

  My grandmother became a nurse in New York City around this time. She was newly divorced, raising three kids on her own. In between going to school, she was cleaning doctor's offices and chasing her wild offspring. Being a black nurse where she was freshly on her own and barely 30 was tough. Watching "I Am Somebody" magnified that 10 times over for me. It would have been even harder had she stayed in the South.