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Bridgerton will delve into the friends-to-lovers plotline between Penelope and Colin in season 3. Season 3 deviates from the novel by jumping to the fourth book, creating a fresh storyline that keeps viewers guessing. The new season features new showrunner Jess Brownell, but maintains the iconic blend of classic and pop music.

Season 3 of Bridgerton arrives on May 16, and fans of the hit Netflix show are already anticipating the love story of second son Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and so-called spinster Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan). The trailer for Bridgerton season 3 reveals the start of their friends-to-lovers plotline: Penelope realizes she must stop being a wallflower to find a husband, and Colin is the perfect man to teach her the ways of courtship.

Though the series is based on Julia Quinn's novels, season 3 is flipping the script by skipping to the fourth Bridgerton book, Romancing Mister Bridgerton. Such a shift creates a...

As inspirational college sports movies go, “Heart of the Champions” doesn’t go, or row, nearly far enough off the beaten path. It’s every bit as boilerplate as its generic title might indicate, distinguished only by its focus on an underdog rowing team rather than the amateur baseball, basketball, football or hockey players usually involved in similar scenarios. There’s just so much even a fine actor like Michael Shannon can do to freshen such stale material, even when he’s given a plum role as a demanding coach who expects the impossible from his young charges. Of course, he might have been able to do more had he also been given more screen time, but, alas, we’ll never know.

The time is 1999-2000, and the place is the fictional Beeston University, an institution of higher learning that desperately needs a new coach after its rowing team finishes...

Stars: Malin Akerman, Bella Thorne, Dulcé Sloan, Kevin Nash, Kevin Connolly, Alec Mapa, Dominique Jackson, Fortune Feimster, Alec Baldwin | Written by Joseph Downey, Hope Bryant | Directed by Paul Leyden

After her life falls apart – her car repossessed, her coffee shop up in literal flames – Anna Wyncomb (Malin Akerman) is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club by her friend and cop Charleen (Dulcé Sloan); who thinks the club will be the thing to help turn the mess of her life around. Shocked at first, Anna soon discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine and enlists hard drinking trainer, Jack Murphy (Alec Baldwin), to teach her how to actually fight…

Let’s be fair here. Chick Fight falls solidly into the classic movie underdog trope – though here there’s a much more feminine take on the cliched story. Yes this...