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Like everyone born sometime around the Nineties and raised in the early 2000s, I see Anne Hathaway as much more than an Academy Award-winning actress and talented performer— in my eyes, she is and forever will be Amelia Mignonette Thermopolis Renaldi, Princess and then Queen of Genovia. Both 2001’s The Princess Diaries—where a young Mia Thermopolis learns that she’s actually the crown princess...

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A Black Panther: Wakanda Forever character has stolen stolen audiences’ hearts: Namor, also known as K’uk’ulkan, portrayed by Tenoch Huerta. The Mexican actor has an extensive film and TV history—The Forever Purge, Narcos: Mexico, Sin Nombre, and Gueros—but this is his first foray into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Even though Wakanda Forever is a movie that explores the mourning of both Chadwick Boseman...

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It’s often the silence in the absence of vocalized emotion or explanation that speaks loudest in the works of Tsai-Ming Liang. The silence of the final loyal patrons appreciating one last movie in a dying theater in Goodbye, Dragon Inn, or the lust of two people in love for one another in Days. Through the lens of the camera and the endless emotions...

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It’s been confirmed for some time that Andor will get two seasons, with the show taking up titular character Cassian Andor all the way through to just before the beginning of Rogue One, the Star Wars movie where we first met the rebel. Actor Diego Luna, who played the dynamic role, has now shared some insight into the production of the second season...

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By reputation, Casablanca is the greatest American romance ever put to celluloid. There may be films more avant-garde or technically accomplished, but no film is so compulsively rewatched or intensely adored. US Senator Elizabeth Warren returns to Casablanca with her husband every New Year’s Eve, and Donald Trump even made a (losing) bid to acquire the famed upright piano that is featured in...

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Domestic workers live at the fringes of other people’s realities, devoting their bodies and souls to rather thankless jobs. Often they are from developing nations, leaving their faraway homes just to make a living, and it is typical that they have children of their own too, whom they rarely see as they take care of their employer’s kids. In Nanny, first time feature...

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It’s approaching two decades since Rian Johnson announced himself as one of genre cinema’s most intriguing young talents. His debut feature, Brick, a high-stakes high school noir with a clockwork plot and killer script, set the tone for what was to come – not least its opening shot of a dead body lying face down in the dirt. Aside from a sojourn in...

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Gabby Windey and Vinny Guadagnino Exchange Flirty Instagram Messages Bachelorette Gabby Windey raised some eyebrows among her fans recently, following a series of very flirty exchanges with her Dancing With The Stars co-star Vinny Guadagnino. Now the former Denver Broncos cheerleader is setting the record straight, according to Page Six. “I mean we’re friends,” she said of the Jersey Shore alum. “Apparently both of...

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As Shakespeare once said, “Something is sexy in the state of Denmark”. And he was right. Because that’s where Mads Mikkelsen is from. The first time I ever saw the Danish daddy was in a little show called Hannibal. He played the titular character, Hannibal Lecter. And I was smitten. He’s like some sort of Norse panther, is he not? Sleek, powerful, and...

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The countdown is on for Matt Roloff. And he knows it, too. The Little People, Big World star has been dating Caryn Chandler for years now and has openly talked of late about proposing. It seems like a sure thing that these two will one day walk down the aisle… it’s just become increasingly difficult to predict exactly when that day will arrive....

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The music record label, Blockberry Creative, sent shockwaves through the world of K-pop when they announced on November 25, 2022, that Kim Ji-woo, known professionally as Chuu, had been removed from the girl group LOONA. The K-pop genre has experienced a rise in popularity in recent years. South Korea has capitalized upon this fame by forming sophisticated boy and girl groups capable of...

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Thanksgiving in America can be a tumultuous time. Turkey deep friers are just waiting to burn down the house. Black Friday shoppers are milling outside of big box stores like coupon-loving zombies. Covid is still a thing. But perhaps scariest of all… it means a long night with family.  Even the sweetest, most well-adjusted families are prone to fits of chaos during Thanksgiving...

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Netflix’s Wednesday premiered on November 23, 2022, marking the first live-action Addams family TV adaption since The New Addams Family in 1998. The series is directed by the gothic horror king, Tim Burton, and sees Jenna Ortega take on the titular role of Wednesday Addams. Wednesday is also a unique series in that it is the first Addams family adaption to focus solely...

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Glass Onion returns to the world of Knives Out and Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) and reminds us just how good writer/director Rian Johnson is at murder mysteries. But with Glass Onion also comes a lot more information about Blanc and how he works his cases. In my review for the movie, I gave it 5 stars because it is perfect, but I also...

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The adorable friendship between Donald Trump and Kanye West may be over. On Thursday, the rapper shared a video on Twitter than confirmed he had brought unabashed White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes to a dinner with the one-term President at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In the footage, West said Trump was “really impressed with Fuentes,” who has repeatedly made antisemitic...

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TikTok has been known to spark some weird trends and bizarre subcultures, but the latest one is creating millionaires. Oh no, wait—dabilllionaires. Same thing, right? Sadly not. TikTok users are trading dabloons with one another in exchange for imaginary quests, usually handed out by mysterious cats, addressing you with polite, slightly medieval conversation. TikTok has been known to spark some weird trends and...

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The Club Q shooting has brought the prejudice and violence that many LGBTQ+ people in America and around the world face into a sharper focus. The tragic events received a lot of attention on social media from LGBTQ+ people, allies, and anti-LGBTQ+ extremists. Predictably, anti-LGBT campaigners have used the shooting to both blame the victims of the shooting and make sweeping statements about...

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Sustainable, clutter-free, eco-friendly, whatever you call it, having a Green Christmas is something more and more people are becoming conscious of. But you don’t need an army of elves and reindeer to pull off this Christmas miracle. Here are nine tips for a Green, Sustainable Christmas! 1. Reusable Wrappings About 50,000 trees are cut down to produce wrapping paper for Britain alone and...

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According to someone who ought know very well, the long-gestating rumor is a legitimate really. Yes, Sister Wives fans. Janelle Brown really has left her emotionally abusive husband. In an exclusive interview with In Touch Weekly, Janelle’s own aunt, Kristyn Decker, confirmed this development, saying the following to the tabloid: As far as any relationship, any marriage goes, I think [Janelle’s] similar to,...

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