Music as Nourishment: Max Richter on Scoring “Hamnet”
Paul Mescal in Hamnet With Songs My Brother Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017), Chloé Zhao constructed tender epics out of prolonged time spent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Much like her Oscar-winning Nomadland (2020), these…
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Christy Review | Flickreel
Christy is a well-acted biopic centered on a compelling figure. Even at more than two hours, though, I sensed something crucial was missing. It didn’t become clear what the narrative was lacking until the obligatory end text, mentioning that Christy…
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Inside the Star-Studded F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Las Vegas is already known for its glitz and glamour, but add the roaring sounds of race cars, the best drivers in the world, dozens of celebrities and thousands of fans to the mix, and the vibes get elevated to…
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Rhea Seehorn Successfully Carries the Sci-Fi Show’s Most Surprising Hour All by Herself
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Pluribus Episode 5.Happy early Pluribus day! Yes, you read that right — this week's episode of Vince Gilligan's Apple TV sci-fi show has dropped a whole two days ahead of schedule, likely…
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Ahsoka’ Star Left Season 2 Over a Pay Dispute
Ahsoka Season 2 is currently expected to debut on Disney+ sometime in 2026, three years after Season 1 concluded. While Rosario Dawson, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Eman Esfandi, Ivanna Sakhno, Lars Mikkelsen, and Hayden Christensen will return, Pitch…
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‘IT: Welcome to Derry’ Stars on Their Scariest On-Set Encounters: “I Crapped My Pants”
[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for IT: Welcome to Derry.] Summary Co-Stars Blake Cameron James and Arian S. Cartaya were terrified by Bill Skarsgård in character as Pennywise. Will’s relationship with his military father is rocky, with haunting moments…
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21 Years Later, Quentin Tarantino Explains How the ‘Kill Bill’ Spin-Off Finally Happened
Two decades after Kill Bill carved itself into movie history, Quentin Tarantino is finally bringing a long-lost part of the saga into the world — and, fittingly for 2025, it’s arriving through Fortnite. The new animated short, The Lost Chapter:…
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‘Cassandra’ Is a Perfect Way to Binge 5 Hours on Netflix This Weekend
Cassandra was released in February 2025 and became an instant hit on Netflix after it scored 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Now, as the year heads to a close, the series is still the most-viewed sci-fi TV series of the year…
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âDiving Into the Mess and Chaos of Cinema Doesnât Have to Exist Apart from Care and Ethicsâ: Gabrielle Brady on The Wolves Always Come at Night
The Wolves Always Come Out at Night Gabrielle Brady’s The Wolves Always Come at Night follows Davaa and Zaya, a rural Mongolian couple with four young daughters whose dream to continue the traditional herding way of life they’d always known…
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Ethereal Macedonian Documentary Details Struggle Against Capitalism, Climate Change
Macedonia's largest white stork population resides in Češinovo, a small farming village. As dependent on the success of the country's agriculture as the humans which cultivate the land, the birds have made a comfortable home for themselves here, in the…
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Jimmy Kimmel Defended by Barack Obama, Ben Stiller, Rosie O’Donnell, Wanda Sykes: ‘This Isn’t Right’
Former President Barack Obama, Ben Stiller, Rosie O’Donnell and Wanda Sykes were among those who defended Jimmy Kimmel after his show was abruptly pulled from the air at the urging of the Trump Administration. “This isn’t right,” Stiller posted on…
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A Razor-Sharp and Relentless Reimagining
Edgar Wright’s 2025 adaptation of The Running Man arrives with tremendous expectation, not only because it reinterprets Stephen King’s dystopian novel for a new political and technological era, but also because Wright’s distinctive genre-blending sensibilities seem tailor-made for a story…
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