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A 1978 quadruple homicide of fast food workers in Speedway, Indiana is the subject of an interesting and unique documentary available to stream on Hulu, “The Speedway Murders.”

Wes Anderson’s second feature film starred Jason Schwartzman in his film debut, as a student at a prestigious private boys school, and Bill Murray as the rival for the affection of a teacher, played by Olivia Williams, in the 1998 movie “Rushmore.”

A massage therapist and an archivist of classic television shows meet at a party and begin dating but a separate friendship threatens to poison a budding relationship in the 2013 film “Enough Said.”

June Squibb gets her first lead role at the age of 93, proving it’s never too late, in the 2024 film “Thelma.”

Best neighborhood friends are pushed to the limit by a tragic death and mental illness in the 2024 film “Mothers’ Instinct” starring Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain.

Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda join forces in a fight against evil, sort of, in the 2022 film “Moving On,” also starring Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree.

In a slight departure from our usual selection, Maude picked the first episodes of two new limited streaming series on Paramount+. We discuss the British crime drama “MobLand” and the true crime drama “Happy Face.”

A multi-generational family blessed with magical powers is faced with possibly losing their gifts in the Disney animated musical “Encanto.”

Timothee Chalamet learned to play the guitar and harmonica and worked with vocal coaches for years to get the sound of Bob Dylan just right and it paid off with another Oscar nomination for his performance in “A Complete Unknown.”

After the attack on the Israeli Olympic team at the 1972 Munich Summer Games, the government of Israel put in motion a secret plan to find and assassinated the planners of the attack. This worldwide mission is dramatized in Steven Spielberg’s 2005 dramatic thriller “Munich.”