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Much Ado About Nothing Is Actually About Something Kinda Gross
I’m not going to admit I’m old enough to have seen Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing in theaters, but let’s just imagine that it happened. It was 1993 and the world was a simpler place. The Cold...
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Give Holidate Your Fake Number
I was late to the game on Netflix’s Holidate. As much as I love romantic comedies, somehow the yearly holiday streaming movies have yet to reel me in. But I kept seeing this one promoted all across...
View ArticleInauguration Day Special: The Most Fun Movie Presidents
In sitting down to write this list, I realized something about myself, something so earth-shattering that I’m sure it must be intrinsic to who I am at my very core: I have no interest in serious movies...
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5 Amazing Romance Casts to Heat Up Your Cold Winter
Valentine’s Day may be over, but the shiny red hearts are still up in store windows and fireplaces are lit thanks to the polar vortex. There’s no better way to stave off the winter chill than by...
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Not Even Superman Can Save Us from Economic Reality
**Spoilers for Superman & Lois!** Let’s just get this out of the way: I don’t watch the Arrowverse shows on The CW. I fell out of watching Supergirl after the first season. When it comes to all the...
View ArticleA Golden Globes to Forget
The Golden Globes! The best televised Hollywood party of the year! TV actors and movie stars in the same room! Everybody drunk and messy while wearing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of couture...
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Forgotten Gems: The Wedding Banquet
It’s almost Spring! Not even your doubled-up Covid masks can protect you from that creeping feeling that soon we’ll all be back out in the world. And you know what THAT means! Dating. Dinners out with...
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Finish Out Women’s History Month with 6 Films by Women Directors
It’s Women’s History Month and you know what that means–time to watch movies made by women! Just to be clear, though, you should also watch movies made by women the rest of the year, too. The Hurt...
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The Goes Wrong Show Goes Right
One of the great things about living in New York is the proximity to Broadway, not to mention Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway. The Great White Way has been shut down for a year now thanks to the...
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I Think Alan Tudyk Is Playing Himself in Resident Alien
We all love Alan Tudyk, right? He’s never been anything but incredible in every role, and he can do it all–comedy, drama, voice acting, and that weird rubber-faced thing that Jim Carrey was so good at....
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Finish Out Women’s History Month with 6 Films by Women Directors
It’s Women’s History Month and you know what that means–time to watch movies made by women! Just to be clear, though, you should also watch movies made by women the rest of the year, too. The Hurt...
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The Goes Wrong Show Goes Right
One of the great things about living in New York is the proximity to Broadway, not to mention Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway. The Great White Way has been shut down for a year now thanks to the...
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I Think Alan Tudyk Is Playing Himself in Resident Alien
We all love Alan Tudyk, right? He’s never been anything but incredible in every role, and he can do it all–comedy, drama, voice acting, and that weird rubber-faced thing that Jim Carrey was so good at....
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Helen Mirren Blesses the SAG Awards and PEN15 in Particular
Helen Mirren is an absolute goddess, and the only other people on Earth who can match her for bawdiness, wit, and the ability to turn men to stone with their steely gaze are Judi Dench and Meryl...
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Keira Knightley in The Duchess Will Break Your Heart
Beware: Spoilers below! If there’s one thing to be learned from watching historical dramas about women, it’s that being a woman sucked. There’s no escaping the fact that marriage was a woman’s only...
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Time Capsule: The Dana Carvey Show
I don’t really remember The Dana Carvey Show from the 1990s. I could, God knows I’m old enough. I just don’t. It was a flash in the pan, a show that suffered a fast demise like so many others. No, the...
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Why Doesn’t Harrison Ford Play Presidents Anymore?
I’ve talked before about how reassuring it is to have Harrison Ford as the President of the United States. And I feel like the recent news about casting for the fifth Indiana Jones movie gives me an...
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Oscars for a Pandemic
This year’s Academy Awards were…different. Obviously Covid has changed every awards show this year, and the Oscars adjusted as well as they could. They pre-filmed the nominated songs and socially...
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Bride and Prejudice Wins the Elizabeth Bennet Battle
There are as many Jane Austen adaptations as there are stars in the sky or planned Marvel spinoffs. Shows, books, fanfiction, movies…the woman is an entire cottage industry two hundred years after her...
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Bridget Jones’s Baby Delivers
Did you ever read Bridget Jones’s Diary? It’s fantastic. A friend gave me the book, by Helen Fielding, for my birthday back when it first came out, and I had no idea what it was. But when I read the...
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