What To Watch This Christmas: Ranking the 5 Christmas Films I Saw This Year (2022)

Every year we are brought a new slew of holiday films that seek to catch our attention and be added to our yearly Christmas movie traditions. Normally, the season is filled with corny Hallmark or Lifetime movies and only a small handful of bigger Christmas films. Surprisingly, this year there were five different Christmas films …

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab—Adaptability Review

There were several years where I had zero joy in reading, mostly caused from the forced nature of reading for school and the lack of knowing a good series to fall into. The two books that made me fall in love with reading again was V.E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic and Emily St. …

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Love, Victor (Season 1)—A New Gay Story That Falls Into the Same Pitfalls as the Film It Derives From

One of the biggest out-of-nowhere hits of 2018 was Love, Simon, based on the best-selling novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. It is quite the understatement to say this was a much needed film for the LGBTQA+ community as we have seen little to no representation in Hollywood outside of super-depressing …

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Emma.: An Auspicious Rendition of a Dainty Comedy of Manners

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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