A few years after the Battle of Endor, the Empire is in disarray, but the New Republic is still very fragile. Grand Admiral Thrawn has disappeared, thanks to Ezra Bridger, who managed to take him with him to another galaxy (see the end of Rebels). But Morgan Elsbeth, one of Thrawn’s loyal supporters, has managed […]
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Cloud Nine, a chain store in St Louis, Missouri. Glenn Sturgis is the proud and overly nice manager of a team of a few dozen employees who handle the registers, the aisles, and the warehouse. Dina, his assistant, is his polar opposite when it comes to relationships: more attached to birds than to people, she
Londonderry, a small town in North Ireland, 1994. Erin and her cousin Orla, Claire and Michelle have been friends since childhood. Undisciplined and quick to bend the rules, they attend “Our Lady of immaculate conception”. The local (Catholic) high school for girls is ruled by Sister Michael, who tries to hide his good-natured disposition behind
A group of Spanish tourists board a bus bound for Lisbon. When they arrived, they were in for a rude awakening. Instead of the 4-star hotel the agency had booked, they found themselves in an old, dark, and run-down hotel. Exhausted, they reluctantly agree to spend the night there. But the next morning, to everyone’s
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Oxford, 1870. A disrespectful and disruptive teenager who has been expelled from several high schools, Sherlock has just spent a few months in jail for mocking a judge. Patient but exasperated, his older brother Mycroft bails him out of jail and gives him a half-chance by placing him as a scout at an Oxford college.
Shah Latif is an actor who is starting to make a name for himself. He gets the chance to audition for the role of a lifetime—James Bond—but he panics and messes it up. Disappointed, the young man comes up with a scheme to stay in the public eye as a potential first brown James Bond.
1985. Lord Tony Baddingham owns a private regional TV network, Corinium. An authoritarian man born into a penniless noble family, he married a wealthy lady and had to build the empire he now rules. Ruthless in business, he’s used to winning. He’s just scored two victories. One, a low-key one, is having recruited a talented
Australia, 1986. Geoff Walters and Helen Norville are the star anchors of the “News at Six” program on a commercial television network. Geoff overshadows Helen, who, despite being an excellent journalist, struggles to break out of her role as a mere prop. A whole production team revolves around them. Lyndsay, the hot-tempered and abusive boss;
For 20 years, Lucky Luke has been a lonesome cowboy. The man who shoots faster than his shadow, the incorruptible lawman who brings every desperado to justice, has become a legend of the Wild West. But then a fearless young woman with a strong personality comes along. Not content with simply doing as she pleases,
Richmond, Virginie. 1990’s : Kay Scarpetta is a young chief medical examiner. As the first woman to hold this position, she is being closely watched by men who are either envious or eager to see her fail. And all the more so because she has to examine the body of the fourth victim of a
