Movies & TV Shows
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Alex “Bean” Rose has a “life list.” A list she made at 13 of things she wants to accomplish in life. It includes things like learning to play the piano, learning to drive, reading Moby Dick, getting a tattoo, performing a stand-up routine, getting along better with her father, and falling in love. In Netflix’s
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THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS POST. DON’T READ FURTHER IF IT MATTERS TO YOU. I finally binged Grotesquerie on Hulu. I had no idea of what the show was about before starting it. I was drawn in by the “gothy” color scheme and religious imaginary, deep reds and purple hues over Christian crosses hung over
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Where ABC and Fox make you wait a week to see the latest episode (unless you have a cable subscription), The CW understands that it’s commercial TV (not subscription) and that its viewers can’t stop their worlds (no matter how much they want to) to sit and watch their favorite show or, as in my…
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Lorde’s cover of Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World. I want to believe M Night Shyamalan was given an ultimatum before he made The Last Airbender. I imagine a Star Chamber of Hollywood heavyweights shrouded in dense shadow, angrily demanding, “If we see a single slitty eye or someone even remotely Asian
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Shirley Ellis doing the Name Game. Dear Nick and Elyse (and Lori): I saw your episode of Beyond the Tank. I am glad you decided to keep your name. My son and I have fond memories of missing the hole and scrunching up our napkins to mop up the cream cheese. For us, that’s part
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Admittedly, I should have read the description of Virunga more closely. All I saw on its Netflix banner was “Oscar Nominated” and the picture of a smiling man giving a baby gorilla a piggyback ride. I pressed PLAY expecting a Nature documentary about African Mountain Gorillas to unfold in bold colors and dreamy panoramics. However,
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This is The Nightmare Before Christmas It would be unfair to say Christmas snuck up on me this year. It’s done everything to make its coming known; settling down in store shelves even before the Halloween candy could have its turn. But, despite the foretelling, my apartment remains inconspicuous, innocuous, not a trace of the
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Remember the Thompson Twins’ “Doctor, Doctor?” WARNING SPOILERS! DISCLAIMER: I am not a Whovian, just a fan with a theory. I have this theory that Clara Oswald is one of the Doctor’s future regenerations but she doesn’t know it yet. It’s like when the Master was first introduced to the new series in “Utopia” (Season
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