Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Review: A Startling Documentary That Fights for Hope in a Hopeless Russia
Teachers and educators are vital to the ecosystem of society. They prepare children and teach them to become adults, educating them about history, social sciences, and languages, giving them everything they need before letting them go out in the world.…
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I Was Transported To The Familiar Mundane Dramas Of Childhood Through Morissa Maltz’s Gorgeously Lyrical Feature
In the wake of her success with her 2022 project, The Unknown Country, writer-director Morissa Maltz is back with Jazzy, her sensitive portrait of girlhood. Starring Jasmine Bearkiller Shangreux and Syriah Fool Head Means as fictionalized versions of themselves, Jazzy…
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G’wed Season 2 Review – Resurrecting British Comedy
TV comedy series have been in such short supply over the last few years but upstepped this scouse gem in 2024 that changed the game and this week saw the release of all 5 episodes of its well-deserved second season,…
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Death of a Finance Bro
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Elsbeth Season 2 Episode 10. It's Elsbeth meets Succession this week on our favorite crime procedural! Sort of. While it's not a crossover episode — though could you imagine Kendall (Jeremy Strong)…
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Marshmallows Are for Team Players
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Severance Season 2 Episode 4. Last week's episode of Severance Season 2 was the first to really begin moving the story's central mysteries forward. The premiere was an innie-centric installment that brought…
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Clive Barker’s Best Horror Adaptation Is Still A Lean, Mean, Horny Genre Classic
Well before his work became the basis for a wide range of horror properties, one of Clive Barker's first adaptions for the screen was that of Hellraiser, which he handled himself by being the writer and director of the film.…
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Matty Makes Her Most Dangerous Enemy Yet
Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Matlock Episode 10.Matty (Kathy Bates) is getting too comfortable on Matlock, and it's starting to lead to big mistakes. After refusing to continue any investigation of Olympia (Skye P. Marshall) in last…
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An Action Comedy With Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose Shouldn’t Be This Painful
In the build-up to the 2023 Academy Awards, it was incredibly hard to bet against Ke Huy Quan for his comeback performance as the lovable Waymond in the zany multiversal action-comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once. The former child star…
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A Heartbreaking, Close Look at One of the Most Harrowing Crises of Our Era
No Other Land, a Palestinian-Israeli documentary portraying the Israeli government's progressive encroachment on, and destruction of, the homes and lives of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta of the Southern West Bank, should have been a shoo-in for U.S. distribution. Internationally award-winning…
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‘Seeds’ Review: A Tightly Focused Documentary That Speaks to Something Much Bigger
There’s plenty to love about Brittany Shyne’s Seeds, a moving, bucolic look at members of African American families that have for generations tilled the fields of farms they control on lands their ancestors were once forced through slavery to work.…
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‘Speak.’ Review: A Straightforward and Inspiring Doc About Talented Teens
From Oprah Winfrey to Jordan Peele, there has been a long history of great artists, entertainers, policymakers, and more who have participated in Speech & Debate. Odds are, you’re more familiar with the second part of that (at least I…
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I Was Irked By Amy Schumer’s Uncomfortable Netflix Comedy That’s More Icky Than Funny
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a movie begins with a woman expecting a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, she isn't getting one. It was a fate Elle Woods suffered, and now so does Amy Schumer's Lainy in…
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