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In the fantastic new dramedies ‘Single Drunk Female’ and ‘As We See It,’ it’s never too late to grow up

If 28-year-old Samantha Fink, a writer in New York forced to move back home, weren’t in so much denial, she’d pray for the serenity to become merely a train wreck. In the first episode of the new dramedy “Single Drunk Female,” Sam (Sofia Black-D’Elia) nearly blinds her boss, destroys two cars and ends up in […]

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Faith-based romance ‘Redeeming Love’ hammers home an unsubtle message

Based on Francine Rivers’s best-selling 1991 novel, a Christian-themed historical romance loosely inspired by a minor character mentioned in the biblical Book of Hosea, the faith-based melodrama “Redeeming Love” tells the story of Gold Rush-era prostitute Angel (Abigail Cowen) and the power of love – both a good man’s and God’s – to transform and […]

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A game of geopolitical chicken, played out in personal terms in ‘Munich: The Edge of War’

A mixture of well-researched historical fact and pure fiction, “Munich: The Edge of War” is a smart and entertaining thriller that suffers from just one thing: We all know how it ends. Set mostly in 1938, just before and during the September conference of world leaders in Munich that gave permission to Adolf Hitler to […]