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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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Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic is now streaming in its entirety on Max. For those unfamiliar with the film's sprawling lore, Part 1 introduced viewers to the Atreides family, who move to the planet of Arrakis to seize control over the production of spice, a valuable resource for the intergalactic empire. But Part 1 was a slow-moving set up to this ...
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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...
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While I consider myself to be a Yankee fan, I'll be honest: I rarely tune into sports and find the food to be my favorite part about heading to Yankee Stadium. Nonetheless, I still found myself engaged in Bronx Zoo '90: Crime, Chaos and Baseball, which I found to be a solid example of sports storytelling. The three-part docuseries, now streaming...
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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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Interview With the Vampire Season 2 continues its proud tradition of giving us the full Anne Rice experience. That is, this is a show about immortal beings caught up in the minefield of their painful memories, emboldened by their superpowers to behave like egomaniacal gods, and so lonely in their exile that they all just long for connection....
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To say that the new Hulu documentary, The Contestant, is a wild ride is a severe understatement. Directed by British filmmaker Clair Titley, The Contestant recounts the story of Tomoaki “Nasubi” Hamatsu, who, in 1998, became the star of a Japanese reality series that stripped him down naked and starved him on national television. Now, over...
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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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It's been a long time coming but Bravo fans are finally heading back to the Garden State. The Real Housewives of New Jersey Season 14 kicked off to an intense start, with Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice refusing to speak to one another following their blowout confrontation at last year's reunion. Plus, Giudice gets into it with Rachel Fuda at...
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