Candy Montgomery is getting quite the Hollywood treatment these days, even if she’d prefer to have nothing to do with it. Mere months after Jessica Biel played the real-life Texas housewife in Hulu’s Candy, WandaVision actress Elizabeth Olsen is stepping into the same role, albeit with a tamer hairstyle and a different team supporting her. […]
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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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By Anita Tai. Published: 34 mins ago The Weeknd took the Junos by storm last night. The annual Canadian music awards show’s opening night took place on Saturday, hosted by “Run The Burbs” star and co-creator Andrew Phung and CBC Music radio host Angeline Tetteh-Wayoe. Fourty awards were handed out to artists including The Weeknd, […]
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Spoilers below. The second half of You season 4 is full of shockers, including the fact that Rhys Montrose isn’t the Eat the Rich Killer, after all. Instead, we discover that Joe Goldberg had been up to his old tricks yet again—he just doesn’t know it. Despite running with a wealthy crowd, successful author Rhys […]
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Spoilers ahead for Outer Banks seasons 1 and 2. In its first hit season, released during those ugly early months of the pandemic, Outer Banks sailed in on the froth of good vibes. Set on the North Carolina coast with a well-cast ensemble of attractive twenty-somethings playing teens sniffing for treasure, the Netflix hit became […]
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Major spoilers ahead for You season 4. Much to the chagrin of literary snob and serial killer Joe Goldberg, the fourth season of You has gone from thriller to full-on murder mystery. After trying (again) to make a fresh start in London as Professor Jonathan Moore, he gets pulled into a despicable circle of rich […]
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Spoilers ahead. No, You’s fourth season doesn’t end just like that. In fact, those five episodes are just a taste of the roller coaster of drama ahead. But still, they were riveting weren’t they? In season 4, Joe Goldberg—sorry, Professor Jonathan Moore—is working at a university in London to start a new life after killing […]
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Although widely cited as a country-fried The Gilmore Girls with a dash of murder, Ginny and Georgia only wishes it were so straightforward. There are moments of real excellence in the teen drama’s sophomore season, out now on Netflix; in particular, Antonia Gentry plays the titular Ginny with a well-balanced fusion of adolescent self-absorption and […]
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For avid detective film fans, 2022 was a godsend. From Matt Reeve’s neo-noir iteration of Batman to the return of Daniel Craig in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the year saw entries into the genre offer nuanced critiques on gender, privilege and more. Other cinematic offerings included See How They Run and Death on […]
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Fifty films down, fifty films to go, and we’ve barely scratched the surface of what we’re hoping to see at the cinema next year. Have we missed something you’re counting down the days until? Let us know by tweeting us @LWLies. 51. Cocaine Bear (Elizabeth Banks, Universal) He’s a bear. He’s taken a shitload of […]
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