The Starling Girl, which marks writer and director Laurel Parmet's feature film debut, is now in theaters after receiving critical acclaim at several film festivals. The masterfully told story about a teenage road's difficult road to self-empowerment was inspired partially by the filmmaker's own experiences as well as by her research into fundamentalist Christian communities. One such community in rural Kentucky serves as the setting for Jem Starling's (Eliza Scanlen, Sharp Objects) coming-of-age tale, whose love of her religion as expressed through worship dance is complicated by her relationship with her youth pastor.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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