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| Ratched  (2020– ) | ★★★★✩

|SERIES ENTRY#| 17/100; first watch

|SUMMARY| In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a growing darkness.

|GENRE|   Crime, Drama, Mystery

|CREATORS|  Ryan Murphy, Evan Romansky

|STARRED BY|   Sarah Paulson, Finn Wittrock, Cynthia Nixon

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|The Old Guard (2020)| ★★★✩✩

|MOVIE ENTRY#| 36/100; first watch

|SUMMARY| A covert team of immortal mercenaries is suddenly exposed and must now fight to keep their identity a secret just as an unexpected new member is discovered.

|GENRE|  Action, Adventure, Fantasy 

|CREATORS|   Gina Prince-Bythewood, Greg Rucka

|STARRED BY| Charlize Theron, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Marwan Kenzari, KiKi Layne

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|  The Half of It (2020)  | ★★★★★

|MOVIE ENTRY#| 14/100; first watch

|SUMMARY| A shy, introverted, Chinese-American, straight-A student finds herself helping the school jock woo the girl they both secretly love. In the process, each teaches the other about the nature of love as they find connection in the most unlikely of places.

|GENRE|   Comedy, Romance

|DIRECTOR|    Alice Wu

|STARRED BY|   Leah Lewis, Daniel Diemer, Alexxis Lemire

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| Howl's Moving Castle (2004) | ★★★★✩

|MOVIE ENTRY#| 20/100; first watch

|SUMMARY| When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

|GENRE| Animation, Adventure, Family

|DIRECTOR|  Hayao Miyazaki

|STARRED BY|   Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin

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[ Polar (2019) ]  ★★★✩✩

; ENTRY 6/100 ; first watch ; Feb-2019 ;

; | SUMMARY |; When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.

; | GENRE | ; Action, Crime, Drama ;

; | DIRECTOR | ; Jonas Åkerlund ;

; | STARRED BY | ;  Mads Mikkelsen, Vanessa Hudgens, Katheryn Winnick

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[ THE CRAFT (1996) ]      ; ★★★✩✩ ;

; ENTRY 3/100 ; re-watch ;  11-2017 ;

; | SUMMARY | ;  A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them.  ;

; | GENRE | ; Drama, Fantasy, Horror ;

; | DIRECTOR | ; Andrew Fleming ;

; | STARRED BY | ; Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell ;