Ani Bundel has been blogging professionally since 2010. This is her second major independent site launch. A DC native and Keyboard Khaleesi, she spends all her non-writing time photographing her cats. Regular bylines also found on MSNOW.
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Being a teenager has never been easy, no matter when you were born. Those final years of high school are when you're sure you're an adult in your head, but emotionally, you're still working on getting there. Everything that happens feels like it'
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The Great British Baking Show has had a rocky couple of seasons. After audiences overlooked the growing boy energy in the tent during the pandemic, grateful that the show was continuing at all, the hosting team of Noel Fielding & Matt Lucas was finally deemed unworkable after Season 13'
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Netflix's The Diplomat is a far better series than it has any right to be due entirely to the spectacular casting. The original premise is that the new American ambassador to the U.K. struggles to keep "the special relationship" between the two countries stable as
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World War II films seem to proliferate every time you turn around, especially since 2016. That was the year the NSA released a vast treasure trove of previously classified documents detailing many lesser-known missions, including the feats of derring-do undertaken by the spy community, of which writer Ian Fleming was
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The first official images of Bridgerton Season 4's leading couple, Benedict and Sophie, have been released to mark the official start of filming for the series. Luke Thompson (Dunkirk), who has starred as Benedict Bridgerton since the show's inaugural season, finally shuffles to the top after
BritBox
Robert James-Collier is one of the few Downton Abbey actors who was a relative newcomer. He stuck it out for the series' full run and all the movies but has yet to fully break out beyond his role of the LGBTQ+ butler. Part of this stems from his being
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There's a certain type of British A-list actor who finds themselves going through an awards bait phase. Benedict Cumberbatch, for example, made a string of biopic films in the mid-2010s, all of which were very obviously geared toward garnering Academy Award nominations. Barry Keoghan has seemingly entered that
BritBox
As we've been covering here at Telly Visions, BritBox is on the up and up since being bought out by the BBC. Auntie Beeb needed a successful international streamer, and BritBox was ready-made, with nearly 15 million subscribers outside of the U.K. Thus far, the BBC brass
PBS
Whoever it was at PBS that first noticed Walter Presents launch a stand-alone streaming service in 2018, a few months before the arrival of PBS Passport, and decided to ask curator and producer Walter Iuzzolino if he'd like to join forces and move his foreign language anthology series
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Except for 2021, Van der Valk has reliably returned to PBS every September since the beginning of the 2020s. The series, a remake of the 1970s/1990s Dutch mystery of the same name and based on the characters from the novels by Nicholas Freeling, has modernized what was a gentle
AMC/AMC+
Lately, there’s been a lot about “gerontocracy” and whether or not older people can cognitively handle high-level jobs. For those who need an example showing that age ain’t nothing but a number and you’re only as old as you let yourself feel, I give you Sir David
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The British Film Institute's London Film Festival is one of the last significant chances for most films to get themselves into the Awards Conversation. (The AFI Film Festival in November is THE last chance.) It's also a good bellwether of which films think they can grab