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Verity turns a ghostwriting job into a problem that no finished manuscript can solve. Dakota Johnson plays Lowen Ashleigh, who moves into the home of an incapacitated novelist, Anne Hathaway’s Verity Crawford, and becomes involved with her husband, Jeremy, played by Josh Hartnett. By the closing stretch, Lowen has more than one account of the…
The Thicket begins as a rescue story, but Elliott Lester’s Western gradually becomes something much more somber. Jack Parker sets out to bring his sister Lula home after she is taken by the feared outlaw Cut Throat Bill, eventually joining forces with bounty hunter Reginald Jones, Eustace Howard, Jimmie Sue and others who have their…
Seduced by His Lies begins with a problem that seems complicated enough on its own. Terri Thorne returns from an extended overseas work trip and discovers Marcus Keller living inside the townhouse she recently purchased. Marcus insists that he legally bought the same property, apparently making both of them victims of an elaborate real estate…
What’s Your Number? turns Ally Darling’s romantic history into a problem she thinks she has to solve mathematically. After reading a magazine article suggesting that women who have been with more than 20 men are less likely to marry, Ally becomes convinced that one of her former boyfriends must secretly be the person she is…
Hallmark’s “A Knight to Remember” gives a modern city romance an unusually old-fashioned twist. Julie Gonzalo stars as museum conservator Emily Porter, whose carefully ordered life changes after a centuries-old statue of Sir Griffin de Beauford, played by James Trevena, unexpectedly comes to life. The story moves through modern Chicago, museums, fall scenery and a…
Hallmark’s A Knight to Remember brings together a familiar network favorite and a relatively fresh romantic lead for one of the channel’s more unusual fall love stories. Julie Gonzalo stars as Emily Porter, a museum conservator whose carefully organized life changes when Sir Griffin de Beauford, a centuries-old knight played by James Trevena, suddenly comes…
Tyler Perry’s Doing Life has the kind of premise that can easily sound as though it came from a real newspaper story. Anika is a single mother and former correctional officer whose life becomes connected to Carousel, an incarcerated man who later tries to rebuild himself after leaving prison. Their relationship develops through letters before…
Tyler Perry’s Doing Life begins with two people who have every reason to believe their futures have already been decided for them. Anika is a single mother carrying the weight of her family largely on her own, while Carousel is serving time with a past that continues to define how people see him long after…
Apple TV’s The Last First: Winter K2 arrives with the weight of a story that mountaineering followers already know did not end with a simple victory. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev, the documentary returns to the extraordinary 2020-21 winter season on K2, when climbers from around the world gathered beneath the second-highest mountain on Earth hoping…
The remote vacation home in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is supposed to feel cut off from civilization, leaving Andrew, Eric, and Wen with almost no way of knowing whether the terrifying claims made by their four visitors are actually true. The production achieved that isolation in South Jersey’s Pine Barrens, but the…
M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin spends most of its running time forcing Andrew, Eric, and their young daughter Wen to answer a question that sounds impossible. Four strangers insist that the family must willingly sacrifice one of its own members or humanity will be destroyed. Andrew sees an elaborate conspiracy, while Eric gradually…
Aaron Falvey’s Battle Cabin begins as a contained survival story centered on Kellan, a man trying to hold on to his pacifist beliefs after an EMP attack and the collapse of organized society have transformed rural New Zealand into dangerous territory. That position becomes increasingly difficult to maintain when his wife, Melinda, falls seriously ill…
