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As RuPaul says, if you're not watching Untucked, you're only getting half the story. Granted, that's not been totally true for a little while, as the heat that the RuPaul's Drag Race companion series brought way back in its early days has cooled off considerably with time. But now, thanks to a tweak of the format, the Untucked for RuPaul's Drag...
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On January 7, 2013, an episode titled "Vanderpump Rules" premiered on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and directly after, Vanderpump Rules premiered as its own show. Fans watched Scheana Shay (an employee of Lisa Vanderpump) go from server to reality star, all in one day. The main storyline, if you are unfamiliar with this franchise, is a...
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It's finally March and spring is in the air, so there's no better time to toss on a light, fun flick — and Ferris Bueller's Day Off is as good as it gets. The 1986 John Hughes classic follows the titular Ferris (Matthew Broderick), who plots an epic day of playing hooky from high school, dragging along his reluctant friend Cameron (Succession's...
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We're in the midst of Real Housewives of Miami Season 5, and the ladies of the Magic City continue to deliver. On just one epic trip to the Bahamas all sorts of drama ensues: Alexia Echevarria and Marysol Patton accuse Adriana de Moura and Julia Lemigova of brujeria; Dr. Nicole Martin and Larsa Pipen make peace; and, Kiki Barth pees on a beach. We...
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Have you ever burst into tears while sitting in the middle seat riding coach on a cross country airplane flight? That happened to me just the other day watching Armageddon Time, the latest film from the stalwart Gen X director James Gray (Ad Astra, The Immigrant). It revolves around the life of a sixth-grade boy named Paul (a truly astounding...
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Bravo's long-running reality series Vanderpump Rules seems to have undergone a reset for Season 10. With the divorce of Katie Maloney and Tom Schwartz, the breakup of formerly sober James Kennedy and Raquel Leviss, and the continuous struggles of single mom Lala Kent, our favorite former SUR-vers are entering a new era of adulthood, a step that...
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I wrote about Copenhagen Cowboy in this space not too long ago, a series that dazzled me and sent me all the way down the Nicolas Winding Refn rabbit hole. During Copenhagen Cowboy: Nightfall, the making-of documentary that appears on Netflix, NWR talked about how his current series was a companion piece, of sorts, to his Pusher trilogy, all of...
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Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman play sister witches Sally and Gillian Owens in the cult favorite Practical Magic. After casting a spell to stop herself from ever falling in love, their ancestor Maria inadvertently cursed their family - now any man who falls in love with an Owens woman will soon meet their demise. The girls grow up learning magic, ...
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"You could say that Laura Palmer is Marilyn Monroe, and that Mulholland Drive is about Marilyn Monroe, too. Everything is about Marilyn Monroe." That's a quote from an interview that David Lynch gave to Vanity Fair back in 2017, a quote which came roaring back into my mind after watching Andrew Dominik's Blonde. You might even say that Dominik...
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