For the most part, Christmas movies tend to share many of the same characteristics. They often exist to show the magic of the holiday season, the importance of family and loved ones during these moments, or impart the message that…
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Meet Me Next Christmas is a corny Christmas movie that follows the typical tropes, but the musical elements and central characters make it a fun watch nonetheless. Getting into the Christmas season, Netflix is gearing up a slate of brand-new…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Survivor 47 Episode 8. Get your appetites ready and your cash tubes prepped for the Survivor auction! Created by Charlie Parsons, this mainstay of the legendary CBSreality series returns to offer this…
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What comes to mind when you think of Ireland? James Joyce, Guinness, stew, your great great great grandmother who might have been born there. In contemporary times, it’s probably Paul Mescal’s GAA shorts, Sally Rooney’s gutwrenching notes on love, or…
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Filmmaker Tyler AM’s horror film, Cast Party, is a testament to not giving up on your dreams of filmmaking. Cast Party was shot years ago, I believe, when he was in his late teens. The production was fraught with problems,…
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I see Christmas Eve in Miller's Point as a combination of two storytelling instincts, the first of which is, unsurprisingly, the Christmas movie. This is one of those not just set around the holiday, but about it, and scenes of…
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Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Masked Singer Season 12 Episode 6. It's time to have some fun, fun, fun as it's The Masked Singer Season 12 Group B Finals! The three contenders, Goo, Wasp, and Bluebell kick…
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These days, it feels like almost every new series has to kick off a franchise or inspire a host of spin-offs in order to justify its existence. Prime Video's The Boys spawned Gen V, as well as an animated anthology,…
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To think there was a time when audiences thought found footage was a compelling style of cinema. Coming into adulthood in the aughts, we were living in the cultural wake of The Blair Witch Project, which is still the only…
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After often showcasing his skills in the world of comedy, Nick Frost is tapping into a new side of performing with Black Cab. Frost is best known for his work co-leading the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy with Simon Pegg, while…
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Many films use the imaginative nature of cinema to blur the lines between life and the afterlife, but just a select number of them do it in ways that feel innovative and intriguing. Pedro Páramo uses its supernatural language to…
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In the documentary Agent of Happiness, Amber Kumar Gurung plays the agent, traveling the mountains of the Bhutanese Himalayas conducting government-sponsored surveys of happiness. Ironically, while scoring the happiness of other citizens, his own fulfillment is dubious, as his life…
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