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“Anora” helped me see Brighton Beach differently

“I don't speak Russian, but I understand it.” The line hits me like a punch in the gut as the first act of director Sean Baker's new film Anora unfolds. It's a phrase that the titular protagonist Anora (Mikey Madison), a Russian-speaking, Uzbek-American sex worker who prefers to go by the more Americanized nickname Ani, […]

By Andrew Jack

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024

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How “Smile 2” improves on the original

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Smile 2. What's worse, being infected by a sadistic demonic entity that feeds on the trauma of its victims or the crushing loneliness of a superstar? In Smile 2now in theaters, Naomi Scott delivers a star-studded performance as Skye Riley, a global pop sensation about to embark on a […]

By Andrew Jack

October 18, 2024October 18, 2024

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The Lois Riess HBO documentary

WWhat drives a woman to murder her husband, run away and murder another woman at the same time? That's the central question of a two-part HBO documentary I'm Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders Airing October 15th and 16th, with Lois Riess, a Minnesota woman serving two life sentences for the 2018 murders of […]

By Andrew Jack

October 16, 2024October 16, 2024

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The true story behind the Saturday Night Live movie

Saturday eveninga rousing account of the chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the first episode of Saturday Night Livewill be released in theaters nationwide on October 11th and is a nod to the October 11th, 1975 airdate of the comedy series' first episode, which was broadcast by NBC studio 8H. The film's release coincides with […]

By Andrew Jack

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024

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The ending of “We Live in Time” can destroy you

Warning: This post contains spoilers for We live in time. We live in time ends as it begins – with one crucial difference. Eggs just collected from the coop are cracked into glass bowls on the way to breakfast. Only this time it's not a woman named Almut cooking for her sleeping partner Tobias, but […]

By Andrew Jack

October 11, 2024October 11, 2024

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Meet the breakout star of the new Netflix NBA series

MInnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards makes his first appearance in From 5, The new docuseries about the exploits of NBA players debuts on Netflix on October 9, just before the end of the first episode. And it's a great intro: His blue Lamborghini revs up in the garage of his home in Minneapolis. “I don’t […]

By Andrew Jack

October 10, 2024October 10, 2024

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Joker: Folie à Deux's twist ending, explained

Warning: This post contains major spoilers for Joker: Folie À Deux. It's pretty unclear who exactly Joker: Folie à Deux is for. During 2019 joker grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office and remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time. Slide for two doesn't exactly follow the “restless loner, carries out […]

By Andrew Jack

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024

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“Nobody Wants That” has a problem with a Jewish woman

AA millennial Jewish woman, the new Netflix series Nobody wants that intrigued me with a concept: “Adam Brody plays a hot rabbi.” And yes, when I actually watched the 10-episode romantic comedy was the star of The OK fulfilled all expectations in the role of Rabbi Noah Roklov. He's barely aged a day since he […]

By Andrew Jack

October 4, 2024October 4, 2024

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Netflix's Vince McMahon documentary doesn't let him off the hook

PProfessional wrestling has always had a unique relationship with the truth. The most obvious example of this volatile connection is kayfabe, the efforts of participants to portray everything that happens in the ring as 100% true and the agreement of spectators to accept it. In reality, however, the phenomenon extends far beyond the ring. As […]

By Andrew Jack

September 26, 2024September 26, 2024

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Diddy is in exile. This could happen to his music now

Sean “Diddy” Combs was once the most ubiquitous man in hip-hop. The producer and rapper became an indomitable force in the '90s, writing glossy, rousing party anthems that helped catapult hip-hop into the mainstream. In 1997, he spent 26 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, longer than any other artist that […]

By Andrew Jack

September 21, 2024September 21, 2024