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Netflix's pre-eminent period drama kicked off its final chapter this past week. The Crown Season 6 Part 1 follows the last weeks of Princess Diana's (Elizabeth Debicki) tragic life, showing how exactly she met and fell for Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla). The first three episodes of the sixth season are mostly about Diana. We see the tabloid frenzy...
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Ray Romano's directorial debut is an affecting indie winner. Now streaming on Hulu, Somewhere in Queens centers on Leo Russo (Romano), a father surrounded by an overbearing family who goes to absurd lengths to help his socially awkward teenage son when the kid receives a potentially life-altering opportunity to play college basketball. A deft mix...
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Lakota Nation vs. the United States is a must-see 2023 documentary about the Lakota tribe's ongoing battle to reclaim the Black Hills in South Dakota. Directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, and executive produced by Marisa Tomei and Mark Ruffalo, the movie dissects the whitewashing of American history, which has long aimed to cover up...
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To say Fellow Travelers is simply excellent would be reductive, because the series is so much more: it's lavish and complex, somber and scary, gripping and downright sexy. The political romantic thriller is based on a novel by the same name that takes a well-known period of American history and views it through the fictional lens of a secret...
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NYAD, the new biopic now streaming on Netflix, hits on every feel-good, sports drama cliché you can think of, and yet I loved it anyhow. That's largely thanks to two powerhouse performances from Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, who star respectively as the real-life swimmer Diana Nyad and her coach, Bonnie Stoll. The movie tells the true story of...
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Fun
It's Día de Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead, and if you're looking for something to watch to commemorate the holiday, we recommend checking out Pixar's 2017 film Coco. The animated movie is set during the holiday in a small Mexican town and follows 12-year-old aspiring musician Miguel as he's accidentally pulled into the Land of the Dead...
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By now you've hopefully heard that Lee Eisenberg's Lessons in Chemistry brings Bonnie Garmus’ bestselling 2022 novel to screen in brilliant fashion. But if you have yet to check out the Apple TV+ limited series, or you've only watched the pilot, it bears repeating that Episode 2, "Her and Him" is one of 2023's greatest hours of television yet....
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