A few weeks ago, I began seeing ads for Hulu’s newest show, The Great, and became instantly interested. The show stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult as the dysfunctional royal couple Catherine (pre-the Great) and Russian Emperor Peter III, and they are surrounded by incredible supporting actors and actresses that play their various serfs, advisors, …
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Avatar: The Last Airbender, the series, is finally making its way to Netflix tomorrow, May 15. For those who are not aware, Netflix has recently gained streaming rights to the original series and has began production on a new live-action series adaption of the original as well. In honor of its return to streaming, I …
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1)Between theaters being closed for quite some time now and the amount of time and effort that went into the Netflix articles I wrote at the beginning the shutdown, I lost a lot of drive to write more. That said, I have watched A LOT of television and older/obscure movies during this time. So, I …
There are certain films every film fan needs to see and others that should at the very least be on their to watch list. These are not necessarily all films that I consider 100% must see (that list is coming soon), but they are all films that I believe are important to film history. There …
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Sometimes instead of committing 2 hours to a film, we enjoy sitting down with a good show that gives us those built in breaks where we can get up and move around. Netflix has TONS of incredible programming, and while some are marketed well and everyone gets to watching them (Strangers Things, House of Cards, …
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Unfortunately, too many Americans are repelled by subtitles. There are so many INCREDIBLE foreign films out there that are easily accessible to us through streaming. With the well-deserved Best Picture win by Parasite at the Academy awards this year, we've fortunately seen an uptick in consumption of foreign properties. So, if you are looking to …
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Hopefully, everyone is staying home to wait out the pandemic in order to prevent the spreading. However, staying home for weeks leaves us all with way too much free time. Over the course of the next few days, I will give recommendations for films and series to watch during that time on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon …
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It has been quite some time since the industry has put out a really good sports film as many in recent years have been mediocre at best (the Creed films, Ford v Ferrari, Logan Lucky, and I, Tonya are exceptions to this). So, when I saw the trailers for The Way Back, I was cautiously …
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Pixar has proven themselves time and time again as being one of the greatest film studios of all time (the Cars sequels notwithstanding). Their newest outing, Onward, continues the tradition of excellence. When people think of animated films, they normally think they are kid films, however, Pixar consistently delivers great animated adventures meant for adults …
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Jane Austen has a vast catalogue of literature that is ripe for retelling in various medium, and one that we seem to keep gravitating towards is Emma (first published in 1815), her final novel to be published during her life. Back in the ‘90s, Hollywood seemed determined to throw the story of Emma at us …
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