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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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Baby Reindeer, a recently released limited series from Netflix, is already earning Emmys buzz. The dark comedy follows the unbelievably true life story of creator and lead star Richard Gadd as he reenacts the warped relationship that developed between himself and his female stalker. Gadd's honest exploration of how Martha's stalking intimately...
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It's been over three years, I'm still mad that Steven Yeun didn't win an Oscar for Minari. But at least now Minari is streaming on Netflix, which means you're out of excuses if you haven't yet seen this wonderful movie. Yeun stars as Jacob Yi, an ambitious South Korean immigrant who moves his family to the middle-of-nowhere in Arkansas to pursue...
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Pedro Almodóvar, Ethan Hawke, and Pedro Pascal: how could you possibly go wrong? Trick question, you can't — and Strange Way of Life is proof of that. The short film has been described as Almodóvar's answer to 2005's Brokeback Mountain, but it comes in a bite-sized 31-minute package that's relatively tame compared to both Brokeback and the...
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Scoop, Netflix's new film about the work that went into securing Prince Andrew's disastrous BBC Newsnight interview, almost feels like a sordid continuation of Peter Morgan's The Crown. I mean hey, it's got Gillian Anderson, a backstage look at life in Buckingham Palace, and a few quirky details about palace life you wouldn't find anywhere else....
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Juno is dramedy through and through, juxtaposing dry humor with the very real weight of teen pregnancy and the challenges that come with it. Elliot Page stars as the titular character, a high schooler who becomes pregnant and decides to give up the baby to a wealthy couple. Page gives a stellar performance, which is only complimented by equally...
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Anthony Minghella's 1999 movie adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley was a lush, sun-soaked exploration of how a charming, handsome grifter wormed his way into the lives of upper crust gadflys in 1950s era Italy. Steven Zaillian's 2024 Ripley series for Netflix takes an entirely different tact, aging up all of the characters significantly —...
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Nicolas Cage and A24 are a match made in heaven. The Oscar-winning actor stars in Dream Scenario as Paul Matthews, an awkward professor and father who finds himself at the center of a media storm when strangers around the world begin seeing him in their dreams. Mired by crippling insecurities, Paul attempts to capitalize on this moment and use it...
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Starz's latest racy historic drama Mary & George might be its most fun yet. The series eschews the Tudor family tree for the scandals that came immediately after Elizabeth I shuffled off her mortal coil. Mary & George takes place during the Jacobean era, when James I (Tony Curran) ruled England as the first Stuart king and his revolving...
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