Netflix’s ‘Hollywood’ falls short of its premise
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While the script includes several clever lines and cheeky references, the overarching plot is too convenient for its own good.
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Finding horror in revolution
Universally celebrated for their sharp, socio-political commentary, their stories all, to varying degrees, revolve around a moderately sympathetic lower class violently rising up against the elite.
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4 major takeaways from the 2020 Golden Globes nominations
For awards season fanatics, Monday’s nominations provided an early glimpse of what to expect in the upcoming months.
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Weekend binge — Hollywood circle jerk
Even Netflix is trying to get in the game — if you haven’t already seen from Timothée Chalamet’s bowl cut being aggressively touted on its website.
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Survivors of intimate partner violence deserve support, validation
On the eve of October and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I saw the news of another domestic violence arrest: a woman claiming she called the police because she had been attacked, and then was surprised that she was the one being arrested.
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Coco, Spielberg, Beyoncé and me
Doors of Perception
Everyone’s passion begins somewhere and evolves as they get older. My love affair with movies is a trilogy, and it started with Universal Studios.
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We get it! You went to a dark room in Berlin: ‘Suspiria’ is your mate who won’t shut up about their gap-year adventure
Run for the exits in disgust or fall for this manic pixie dream girl of a campy, supernatural thriller. Luca Guadagnino rebranded Dario Argento’s 1977 cult classic, “Suspiria,” in an exercise in Hollywood world building that’s about as polarizing as listening to your mate’s stories about gap year.
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Actors of ‘The Hate U Give’ speak on importance of drawing from own experiences
Amandla Stenberg, who plays the lead character, Starr, in “The Hate U Give,” Russell Hornsby, who plays her father, Maverick, and director George Tillman Jr. sat next to each other. The comfort of the three members of the movie was palpable.
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UC Berkeley alumnus Jake Cannon uncovers Hollywood’s hidden histories with ‘The Look Back Machine’ podcast
Jake Cannon is a UC Berkeley alumnus and host of the podcast “The Look Back Machine,” which features documentary-style retellings of various forgotten Hollywood stories, tales described as “the overlooked, the disregarded, and misremembered.”
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From Hollywood to the Campanile: How UC Berkeley student Daniel Menegaz is bringing A24 to campus
“(Berkeley has) a thriving art community,” he said in an interview with The Daily Californian. “(It’s) big enough so we can expand beyond that thriving art community and reach people with the messages and content of A24’s films.”
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