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Bawdy teen comedy on Hulu deftly tackles a mature theme

At first blush, the teen ride-along comedy “Plan B” feels like it’s following in the libidinous, boozy footsteps of “Superbad” and “Booksmart.” But there’s more going on in here than just hooking up. Indeed, a hookup is the inciting incident in this raunchy, observantly funny satire, wherein a straight-A student named Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) has […]

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Feel-good fishing story has just the right touch to lure audiences

In 2014, Hurricane Odile ravaged Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, laying waste to an orphanage called Casa Hogar. Weeks later, a group of boys and their mentor caught a 382-pound blue marlin in Bisbee’s Black & Blue Fishing Tournament, earning more than $250,000 in prize money and saving their beloved home. It’s a made-for-the-movies story, but […]