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My Top 17 Movies and Series for 2024

This year I have seventeen films and series to recommend.  Some are less well-known and under-the-radar.  Also, there seemed to be more selections from DEI producers and writers, for a welcomed change! Here are the reviews I wrote this past year with the criteria that they were available online.  Of the 45 reviews I posted this year, these are my favorites, my “listicle”.  As in past years, both television and cinema have continued to produce phenomenal story-telling and intriguing characters. And this year many of the indie/foreign films could have...

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Happy Valley:  A Micro-Exorcism

Happy Valley, a three-season Acorn mini-series, is an unnerving police procedural based in Halifax,  West Yorkshire, England.   The name “Happy Valley” is  the local police’s pejorative term for the low-income Halifax neighborhood. It suffers from a  high rate of drug addiction and crime.  Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire of “Last Tango in Halifax”), is a no-nonsense policewoman with a tragic family history. She  is committed  to an incorruptible enforcement of the law. Colleagues  look the other way. After the workday ends, Catherine is devoted to raising her young grandson, Ryan,...

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