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The fourth season of the period drama The Crown launched the series into the entertainment stratosphere, thanks in large part to the introduction of Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, initially played by Emma Corrin. Unfortunately, the show's habit of recasting its major stars as the story of
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Enola Holmes was a franchise Netflix accidentally stumbled into after Warner Bros. Pictures decided it wasn't worth holding onto until theaters reopened in 2020. As a franchise series of movies, it's perfect fare for Netflix, starring three of its biggest stars from three of its biggest
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In the world of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Rosaline is a secondary character, memorable only in that she's the unrequited first love of Romeo Montague. She doesn't get a single line and, in fact, never even appears onstage. But her influence on the
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Most people know Sarah Polley either as an actor or a director. The Canadian-born artist first rose to fame as Ramona Quimby in the late 1980s Ramona TV series, but for those who weren't a late Gen X kid, the first time most probably heard of her
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Netflix has announced an official premiere date for buzzy period drama The Wonder, a psychological thriller about the tension between science and faith and what happens when desperate people are primed to believe in miracles. The film stars Academy Award nominee Florence Pugh, probably best known for her role as
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Directed by Eva Husson and adapted from Graham Swift’s 2016 novella by writer Alice Birch (Lady Macbeth), Mothering Sunday, with its first-rate cast and stunning cinematography, covers what at first seems some very familiar ground. There are the Downton Abbey-esque upper-class families dealing with their grief
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Emmy-winning actress Jodie Comer has a long history of wearing great clothes onscreen, from the opulent gowns seen in period pieces like The White Princess and The Last Duel to the outrageously colorful wardrobe sported by stylish assassin Villanelle in BBC America's hit thriller Killing Eve. (And
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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