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Música (Amazon Prime, 2024) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Duck: Friends, if you’re wondering whether to watch a duck of a great movie called Música, the answer’s “Duck, yes!” Star: In Música, which is set in Newark, New Jersey, Rudy Mancuso (played by himself) is a Brazilian student and puppeteer with synesthesia. For Rudy, this means a lot of the noises he hears become… Continue reading
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A Taste Of Love (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck and Star
Friends, if I was presenting a cooking show that clashed with my integrity, having to smile harder on camera would give yours truly a pain in the beak. No wonder protagonist Taylor, the cooking show’s presenter, is unsure of whether to renew her contract. Ducking lost, off she goes to her hometown to visit her… Continue reading
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Always Amore (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck T.
Friends, sometimes a duck like me gets his feathers in a pickle because a protagonist is just too ducking resistant to change. Oh, don’t get me quacking about Autumn Reeser’s character Elizabeth in Always Amore who will not allow her late husband’s sadly failing restaurant to undergo even the tiniest Continue reading
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Two Tickets to Paradise reviewed by Duck T.
Friends, flippers up for a movie where the characters actually sort things out! Is it just me, your goldfish-guzzling friend, who finds it irritating when things just “fall into place” between the romantic heroes without any quacking (or other communication) about everyone’s mistakes? Well, welcome to paradise because in Two Tickets to Paradise, the main… Continue reading
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Butlers In Love (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck T.
Friends, the word “butling,” (the art of being a butler,) is brand new to my beak-holes, and I learned it from Butlers In Love starring Stacey Farber and Corey Cott. These actors did a flipper-tickling job of playing Emma and Henry, two students at a highly elite butler academy. Not only was there a duck… Continue reading
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A Gingerbread Romance (Hallmark) Reviewed by Duck T.
Friends, this duck’s flippers are raised in alarm and are also a wee bit sweaty. Why? Because I was ready to witness a tale of deep romance paired with the baking of a life-sized gingerbread house. Instead, I saw more wood than gingerbread—and not in a sexy way. As for the romance, it was stiffer… Continue reading
About US
Welcome! I’m Star Tavares. I am queer and nonbinary, and my hubby Jake is trans. Our plush duck is called Duck and is super-ducking awesome too. He likes to call himself an award-winning duck because Jake and I wrote a screenplay about him that won some awards, and who are we to argue?
The thing is, we used to publish in the romance genres, but after we came out about our genders, we thought romance didn’t want us anymore. But you know what, toots? We were wrong.
Now we’ve rebuilt our confidence and are back to living our Romancey Pants life, writing, reviewing romance movies, reading romance novels, and doing a whole lot of stretching. (Did I mention we’re getting older?)
Want to know more about Star’s writing credits? Under another name, Star has published romance novels and novellas with presses like Harper Collins and Cleis, and has won awards for their shorter works from places like Glimmer Train, Screencraft, and Narrative, where they also worked as an editor. More recently, Star’s nonfiction about gender identity has appeared in The New York Times and at Huffington Post Personal.
Since Jake, who is also a romance author, is starting to add more reviews here (along with Duck’s best frenemy Sir Mallard Jones) watch this space for more about him and his career.
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