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Movies and TV October 2020
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Irresistible Written and directed by Jon Stewart, this comedy film is about a political strategist’s efforts in trying to secure Democrat votes from a Republican town. Gary (Steve Carell) thinks that the key to converting supporters for the Democratic National Committee is backing the mayoral bid of a retired US Marine in a predominantly right-wing town in Wisconsin. But when the Republican National Committee discovers this strategy, they send in their political strategist, Faith (Rose Byrne), who happens to be Gary’s long-time nemesis in the political arena. DVD IRR
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John Lewis: Good TroubleUsing interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health care reform, and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life. DVD NF SOC JOH
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You should have left When a banker and his family take a vacation in a remote modern home on the Welsh countryside, they soon discover that things are not quite as they seem. DVD YOU
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With three out of four Americans regularly experiencing stress, there's never been a better time to begin a yoga practice. Yoga instructor Peggy Cappy leads this yoga routine to ease stress and anxiety.
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Military WivesWith their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement. DVD MIL
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Killing Eve: Season 3The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and allegiances. DVD SER KIL
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A local author is found murdered and unpublished novels of his -- worth millions -- were stolen from his home. While Hodges, Holly and Jerome assist the local police, they continually unearth all the ways that Brady's terror still haunts his victims and acquaintances.
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Quiz: Season 1When a simplistic, ‘question and answer’ quiz show, ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’, goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show’s ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught cheating his way to winning £1 million. DVD SER QUI
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Fleabag: Season 2It is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, grief-riddled woman, as she hurls herself at modern living in London. An unfiltered woman trying to heal, while rejecting anyone who tries to help her and keeping up her bravado all along. DVD SER FLE
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The Great: Season OneIt is a satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side. DVD SER CAT
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Current War Tells the story of the competition between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse over whose electric power delivery system will be used in the electrification of America. BLU CUR
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