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Though our pop culture tends to make a big deal of it, hosting is an often thankless job. Whether you're running the show at the Oscars, the Emmys, or some other big deal event, you're asked to become the face of the forces trying to wrangle
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Luca Guadagnino isn't Spielberg-level famous, but cinephiles know the Call Me By Your Name director and his melancholic pathos. Guadagnino shook things up in 2024 with Challengers, ditching his signature fuzzy European landscapes for sharp volleys on a tennis court, splitting his fan base into two camps
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The Golden Globe nominations for the calendar year 2024 are out, and several upcoming arrivals, including The Brutalist, have already received multiple nominations. The film arrives in the U.S. in time for Christmas Week. However, it has already garnered stellar reviews from its Venice International Film Festival debut, taking
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Uberto Pasolini’s The Return isn’t just built off the closing stages of Homer’s Odyssey – featuring a guilt-ridden, lonely Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) tentatively and reluctantly returning to the frayed, fragile kingdom overseen by his queen Penelope (Juliette Binoche) – it builds on an appealing interpretation of its final
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The Beatles broke up over half a century ago, but the world's first significant boy band out of the U.K. still attracts viewership. Get Back, Let It Be, and the new Beatles '64 are all official hits on Disney+ (one of the streaming service's
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Before the advent of streaming, TV and movies ran on a cycle. Networks produced new episodes of their shows from September to May, with a long holiday break and summers off. Movies dropped their blockbusters at the top of the summer and mid-July, with the awards bait arriving from
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Mike Leigh is probably the single greatest benefactor to Britain’s film history in the last fifty years, and yet the average British film fan may have only heard of a handful of his films. His background in Britain’s theater and teleplay scene in the 70s was predated by
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Christmas comes but once a year, but on TV, as soon as the turkey carcass is removed from the dinner table and tossed in a pot to be rendered for stock, Christmas is ON. December will be Christmas Special City (or Festive Special City if you live in the U.
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Daniel Craig initially rose to prominence as Joe Pitt in the 1993 National Theater production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America, the most seminal theatrical work of the last fifty years. While his career has gone in other directions since, including a 15-year stint playing the lead
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The winds of change have reached a remote coastal village, and, in the space of a week, all signs of life will be swallowed whole by the pressing urges of modernity. It’s a place too insignificant for the film Harvest to disclose where or when it is; the audience
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One of the 2024's Toronto International Film Festival favorites has been scooped up by Sony Pictures Classic and is slated for release in the spring of 2025. The Penguin Lessons, Steve Coogan's adorable dramedy, in which he plays a wayward British teacher who befriends/is adopted
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The political overtones of Joy, the biopic of the English scientists who pioneered in vitro fertilization births (IVF), are even more blatant the month it releases on Netflix. This November’s election has spread nationwide the fear that reproductive rights in America will enter a new dark age, but threats