1) "Inventing Anna"--Netflix--limited series--9 episodes--10 hours & 3 minutes--I am a fan of Shonda Rhimes series but there is a very big misstep here and that is she takes 9 episodes to tell what could have been a very interesting, somewhat true, story by wasting a lot of time on a secondary story--that of the pregnant reporter--of the many relationships Anna Delvey, a scammer who 'took' many wealthy, smart people the one with the reporter was the most uninteresting--she should have spent more time on the 3 women who thought she was their friend--we never do get to know who Anna is!


2) "Holding The Man"--Netflix--Australian movie--2 hours & 5 minutes--Second time I've watched this--about a male couple who meet, fall in love, are together 20 years--taking place at a specific time--a true story written by one of the men who died a year after his book was published--a good feeling tear-jerker that will move you


3) "Loev"--Netflix--film from India--1 hour & 32 minutes--another film I have seen a second time--2 childhood friends who have taken different paths reunite--they are in love with each other but love can be shown and mean in many ways--sometimes in violence that the violator knows is wrong--this movie still leaves me very puzzled at the end


4) "My Best Friend"--Amazon Prime--Film from Argentina--1 hour & 30 minutes--2 teenagers discover themselves as they become friends--nothing new here but still very moving


5) "Just Friends"--Amazon Prime--Dutch film--1 hour & 24 minutes-- a sweet story about falling in love--a romantic gay movie--mothers know best and in this case their mothers and one grandmother know that they belong together--"You don't control love--love controls you"