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The second season of the megahit Netflix period piece — although sometimes repetitive and unintentionally silly — remains beautiful, fun and full of romance.

The teenage detective series is based on the books by Jonathan Stroud.

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One feels, or perhaps hopes, that if she could have avoided it, first-time feature director Ruth Paxton mightn’t have started A Banquet as she ultimately did: with Holly Hughes (Sienna Guillory) arduously scrubbing the frame of her husband’s hospital-style bed, as he coughs, gasps, and weeps for an end to whatever ghastly affliction he has been dealt. 

Uncanny tale finds a wealthy single-parent family thrown into disarray when teenager Betsey stops eating but mysteriously stays the same weight

Ruth Paxton's debut feature film charts the tensions between a widowed mother and her eldest daughter, when potentially unnatural forces lead the daughter to give up eating.

The ton's favorite family reunites in these new images for 'Bridgerton' season two, coming to Netflix later this March.

Because the sound design is so vivid and Paxton’s eye for disturbing detail is so creative, it’s even more frustrating that the payoff is so unsatisfying.

“A Grand Romantic Gesture” (not rated, 1 hour, 48 minutes, On Demand) A comedy drama in which Ava (Gina McKee), forced into early retirement, is encouraged by her husband and daughter to learn gourmet cooking and prepare to be a grandmother. Instead she sends her life into a crazy new orbit by signing up for a drama class where she is cast as Juliet, and falls in love with her Romeo. With Douglas Hodge, Dylan Llewellyn; written and directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin.

ComingSoon is debuting a clip from A Banquet, a new horror film by Ruth Paxton that is out today in theaters and on demand.