Donald Glover’s Amazon Studio project Swarm released all its episodes this week on Amazon Prime. Co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers, Swarm is a horror-thriller series that stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman obsessed with a pop star named Ni’Jah. Dre’s own life is full of disconnect and abandonment, and she seems to […]
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Spoilers ahead. After tearing through Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2019 novel about the meteoric rise of a fictional ’70s band not unlike Fleetwood Mac, the biggest question on my mind was: What does this iconic band sound like? Thanks to Prime Video’s new miniseries based on the book, we now have […]
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Virginie Efira delivers a sublime performance as a journalist who develops a strong bond with her boyfriend’s daughter in Rebecca Zlotowski’s romantic dramedy. In its own dryly ironic way, the title of French writer/director Rebecca Zlotowski’s fifth feature has the power to strike fear into the heart. It suggests a horror movie: the horror of […]
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What’s better than a little sun and surf to break up the last weeks of winter? Boss joined the growing list of designers showing off-schedule this season and decamped to Miami to soak up the heat and present a collection inspired by the humid city. The likes of Maluma, Demi Lovato, and Emily in Paris […]
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Charles Foster Kane complained that he couldn’t buy a bag of peanuts without someone writing a song about him; Quentin Tarantino lives with a less adulatory version of this attention-curse, unable to sneeze without inciting at least twenty-four hours of impassioned discourse complete with backlashes, backlash-to-backlashes, and perhaps a couple of frontlashes. When you’re one […]
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Ted Lasso finally returns for what could be its last lap around the pitch, though the team remains mum on whether the series really ends here. Regardless, the third season will reach some sort of finality over its dozen new episodes. “This is the end of this story that we wanted to tell, that we […]
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Season 1 of A League of Their Own premiered on Prime Video on August 12, 2022, and by then, co-creator Will Graham said that the team was already writing season 2. The show is based on the film of the same name, a classic rainy day movie pick for anyone who grew up in the […]
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It’s been a few years since folks saw Emily Blunt and Dwayne “The Rock“ Johnson onscreen together in Disney’s Jungle Cruise. But it seems like their friendship has remained intact. Still, the actress found herself stunned while crashing her former co-star’s latest interview when she heard what he had to say about her. Although the […]
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Raine Allen-Miller’s love letter to Peckham is a welcome addition to the British rom-com canon, with standout performances from Vivian Oparah and David Jonsson. The South London locales of Peckham and Brixton form the backdrop for this classical, yet refreshingly vibrant tale of opposites attracting in Raine Allen-Miller’s directorial debut, Rye Lane. Two young Londoners […]
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Prepare for more of those clicker sounds bouncing around your brain. After setting HBO viewership records, zombie apocalypse thriller The Last of Us is headed for a second season, bringing Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal back as emotionally traumatized psuedo-father-daughter duo Ellie and Joel. The HBO adaptation is the media giant’s second largest debut, falling […]
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