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One of the buzziest movies of the year just dropped on streaming... of course, I'm talking about Luca Guadagnino's steamy sports rom-dram Challengers. The movie stars Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O'Connor as Tashi, Art, and Patrick, respectively, and jumps back and forth in time to follow the trio's relationships with each other over 13 years. It...
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John Green is so back. Based on Green’s 2017 novel of the same name, Turtles All the Way Down is now streaming on Max, and it reminded me why I love Green's storytelling so much. A mentally-ill protagonist paired with a Hardy Boys plot—what's not to love? Isabela Merced as a 16-year-old named Aza, who struggles with obsessive-compulsive...
This year alone, 9-1-1 has given fans a three-episode ode to The Poseidon Adventure, a Bachelor cameo, a delightful dig at Angela Bassett's Oscar loss, a long-awaited Buck arc, an unexpected wedding crasher, and a ridiculous doppelgänger. But with two episodes remaining in Season 7, the hit ABC procedural shows no signs of slowing down. For fans...
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Zac Efron has proven he's come a long way from the halls of East High. The actor takes an impressive turn as real life wrestling legend Kevin Von Erich in The Iron Claw, the emotional, intense A24 drama that tells of the many tragedies faced by the famous family. As Kevin, Efron quite literally throws himself into the ring, fighting intensely to...
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The Green Veil,which originally debuted at the 2022 Tribeca Festival, recently made its streaming debut on the new streaming service, The Network. The drama series features a poignantly haunting performance from John Leguizamo as Gordon Rogers, a government agent whose dark secret mission and pursuit of the American dream has warped his reality....
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There's nothing quite like a supernatural teen drama. The Vampire Diaries, which first aired in 2009, follows a recently-orphaned Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) as she catches the eyes of two handsome brothers. The catch? They're both vampires who are over 100 years old. As Elena sparks up a romance with the mild-mannered Stefan, she soon learns...
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The best thing I watched in April 2024 was Ripley, writer/director Steve Zaillian's stark, eerie, and throughly enveloping series adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley. Zaillian's decision to film the series entirely in black-and-white is, as the kids say, a choice — a choice I applauded, but one that also left...
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While it’s now impossible to separate Will Smith’s Oscar-winning performance in King Richard from the controversy of him slapping Chris Rock on live TV in 2022, this biopic about Richard Williams is worth a watch. And now that King Richard is streaming on Netflix, you don't even need an Apple TV+ subscription to see it. Richard Williams is a...
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From Dead Poets Society to "The Tortured Poets Department"... last week, Taylor Swift dropped the first music video from her new album and it featured none other than two of Welton Academy's finest, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, with nods to their characters from the hit 1989 film. So, I thought there's no better time to revisit Dead Poets...
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