Marielle Heller had tried everything. She was nearly a year into her campaign to adapt The Diary of a Teenage Girl, cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel, into a play, and she was no closer to her goal. At the time, around 2007, Heller had zero writing or directing credits …
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Supernova, written and directed by Harry Macqueen, is a moving film about two men, Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), who’ve been together for 20 years. They are a compatibly tempered pair whose differences only feel like points of affiliation. Sam is American; Tusker is English. Both are artists: …
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Martin Scorsese criticizes streaming platforms and the movie business in a new essay for Harper’s Magazine entitled IlMaestro. While the piece is an homage to director Federico Fellini, Scorsese also discusses how streaming and current movie industry practices have negatively impacted the art of cinema, which he says is being …
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Everyone knows that Super Bowl ads draw in just as many viewers, if not more, than the big game itself, so it comes as no surprise that Super Bowl “ad events” get their own teaser trailers now ahead of February 7th. On Monday, Uber Eats unveiled the teaser for their Wayne’s …
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The Courier Benedict Cumberbatch stars as an ordinary British businessman – who has been recruited by MI-6, the U.K.’s intelligence service, and a CIA operative. The goal? infiltrate the Soviet Union. The film is based on the true-life of Greville Wynne. He’s the farthest thing from a spy, but the …
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Disney has released the first full trailer forRaya and the Last Dragon, giving us the very first glimpse of, well, the dragon, voiced by Awkwafina alongside Kelly Marie Tran as the voice of Raya. The film premieres on March 5th in theaters and on Disney+ for a premium fee. Raya …
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Issa Rae’s breakout series, Insecure, will end after its upcoming fifth season, HBO has announced. Production on the fifth season is set to begin later this month and the show will debut later this year, although an exact date has yet to be announced. “Very excited to film our fifth …
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Netflix has dropped a new trailer for its upcoming documentary on the notorious serial killer, Richard Ramirez, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, set to premiere on January 13th. Ramirez earned the nickname the “Night Stalker” when, during the summer of 1985, he terrorized Los Angeles with a …
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We’ve almost made it through an objectively terrible 2020 — and while you wait for this annus miserablis to finally end, there’s a lot of stuff to watch while you’re stuck at home, wishing you could be with loved ones and remembering better times. Need a holiday-centric special episode of …
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Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland star in the new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi thriller, Chaos Walking, which is set to be released next year. The film is based on Patrick Ness’ 2008 book, The Knife of Never Letting Go, which was the first installment in his Chaos Walking series. …
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