Game of Thorns: The bar for men is on the floor in Week 10 of ‘The Bachelorette’
Why, yes, it looks like their room for the night is located in a windmill! And we have a winner!
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Category Archives: Film & Television
Madonna’s short documentary ‘World of Madame X’ reveals artist at her most out of touch
After multiple attempts over the years at pushing the bounds of the pop music landscape, Madonna at this point is pushing herself in circles, to cringeworthy effect.
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In season 3 of ‘Stranger Things,’ strengths lie in characters’ arcs and nautical uniforms more than storyline
The Duffer brothers have stuck to their nostalgia-pandering, sci-fi meets Stephen King template. And though it should be tiresome, it isn’t.
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The Earth is dying — ‘Sea of Shadows’ is a thrilling film about doing something about it
As Sea Shepherd first mate Jack Hutton explains, “To anyone who says one person cannot make a difference, 30 people here have saved thousands of lives.”
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Game of Thorns: Week 9 of ‘The Bachelorette’ is pointless if you think about it
It’s Hometowns week here in the Bachelorette-verse! Which means two things: It is time to silently judge the contestants’ families and Luke P. has been here for 8 weeks too long.
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Ob-la-di, ob-la-don’t see ‘Yesterday’
As a romance, it’s putrid. As a morality play, it’s indecipherable. Even as a best-of collection, it’s unimaginatively curated.
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‘The Art of Self-Defense’ needs more offense
There is an imbalance of moods that holds comedic authority in the brighter, more ridiculous segments, yet the movie loses its grasp when latched onto the macabre elements of the film’s development.
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Truth beyond facts: Lulu Wang talks role of memories, question of representation in ‘The Farewell
For Wang, truth in “The Farewell” has more intimate ties to replicating a specific sense of experience than to portraying exactly what happened when.
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‘The Farewell’ paints stunning, honest picture of Chinese American experience
Largely captured in wide-angle shots, the film effectively interrogates the totalizing, moralistic question “Is lying permissible?” by treating it as a microcosm of cultural principles.
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‘Stuber’ is Uber terrible, crashing before the ride ever starts
“Stuber” is utterly insensitive (or perhaps indifferent) to its shortcomings, and it plunges full steam ahead without taking stock of its losses.
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