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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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Mary & George–Lust for Power

In the Starz historical drama, Mary & George, we see the fiercely ambitious Countess of Buckingham, Lady Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore), groom her extraordinarily handsome son, George (Nicholas Galitzine) to be the boy-toy of King James 1 (1566-1625)(Tony Curran).   This is not your usual mother-son relationship! Lady Mary, a formerly poor lower-class woman, has plotted and schemed to become a woman of noble rank through successive marriages to two wealthy aristocrats.  However, her fear that her original social status will be discovered by her enemies at court compels...

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