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The back-to-back arrival of the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals is the traditional kick-off to what's known in Hollywood as "awards competition season." From now until Dec. 31, theaters will be debuting movies looking to be taken seriously as awards contenders. But the
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It was a quirk of the pandemic that Netflix wound up with two Sherlock Holmes fanfic spinoffs in under the space of a year in 2020 and 2021 with Enola Holmes and The Irregulars. The latter, which sadly only lasted a season, had been in the Netflix pipeline since 2018;
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Romeo & Juliet is a formative story for many people. For many readers, it's their first introduction to the work of William Shakespeare and the idea that love doesn't always have a happy ending. (Though, truly, I wish we as a society had managed to take
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The Bronte sisters are some of the most famous women in literature, who each managed to write some of the most successful and controversial fiction of the mid-nineteenth century. That they did it all while writing under assumed names and facing bleak personal and family prospects is just one
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris is a wonderful, feel-good movie, blessed with a strong British and French cast and careful direction by Tony Fabian, who wrote the script with Carroll Cartwright, Keith Thompson, and Olivia Hetreed. It's based on the novel by Paul Gallico. Costume design is
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Netflix's Persuasion is directed by theater director Carrie Cracknell in her first movie venture and written by veteran Ron Bass (My Best Friend's Wedding) and Alice Victoria Winslow (Glaciers). They seem to have concocted it by speed-reading the Flashnotes version, whizzing a copy of Jane
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Jo March once complained, "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents." However, in the entertainment business, two titles are must-haves to properly experience the holiday season. The first, The Nutcracker, is a theatrical staple danced by ballet corps large and small from November until January
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Christmas around the telly is a staple of the UK holiday season. Shows like Doctor Who, The Great British Baking Show, All Creature Great & Small, and Call The Midwife join in the tradition of holiday episodes that air between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. But along
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Netflix already had a big-screen adaptation of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical in the works before committing to going full-on with the Roald Dahl Universe. But the timing is such that viewers will almost certainly see the projects as part of a larger whole. With high-
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Now that Downton Abbey: A New Era has been in theaters for a month and reached streaming, most fans know that the film's ending is, well, rather final. Even though the series sets up the possibility of other stories, the "New Era" of the title also
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Between the ongoing success of Downton Abbey at the box office and the resurgence of Agatha Christie (and Christie-inspired) mysteries in popular culture, it was only a matter of time before someone adapted Anthony Quinn's famous Curtain Call. Subheded "A Stylish Crime Romp," Quinn'
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Even before Paddington 2 accidentally became the best-reviewed film of all time after an ancient negative review of Citizen Kane was unearthed in 2021, the film franchise was a covert Hollywood insider reference. Ostensibly aimed at little kids, these adorable live-action, animation-blended movies are quietly brilliant. The