Photo: Vulture; Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS This article contains spoilers for the CBS reboot of Matlock. CBS chief marketing officer Mike Benson has spent the last 18 months obsessing over Matlock — or, to be more precise, how to sell 2024 audiences on the Eye’s new reboot of the Andy Griffith-led legal mystery. Normally, hyping the …
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Photo: Courtesy of TIFF This Month’s Critic’s Picks 🎟️⭐ Woman of the Hour Actor-turned-directors are also so hot right now. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut is based on a real serial killer’s stint on a game show in the ‘70s. (Streaming October 18.) More October highlights: ➽ Love Is Blind, season 7 — There’s nothing …
Photo: Bleecker Street Media/Everett Collection Cate Blanchett might be one of the world’s great actresses and a huge movie star, but she’s also not one to shy away from the perverse and experimental. With her starring role in Rumours, directed by Canadian filmmaking legend Guy Maddin and his regular collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson, …
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Photo: Anne Marie Fox/Disney I’ll admit that over the years, my Grey’s loyalty has occasionally faltered. The ghost sex, the cursed Teddy-Owen-Tom love triangle, Maggie’s entire cousin plotline … we’ve all questioned our loyalty once or twice. But here’s the thing about Grey’s Anatomy, the thing that will keep me coming back until TV …
Causeway Films This post is updated regularly as movies leave and enter Netflix. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. With hundreds of films from around the world on the streaming giant that changed the game, how does one even know what to watch when they fire up their Netflix? Start here! We’ve gone …
Photo: Leah Gallo/Netflix Anna Kendrick’s new Netflix true-crime film Woman of the Hour relives a haunting true-crime story, but the real-life Rodney Alcala, a.k.a. “the Dating Game killer,” was more terrifying than the film lets on. In her directorial debut, which premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, who …
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Art: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool © National Museums Liverpool What a sight it must have been. On June 9, 1311, Duccio’s The Maesta was paraded from his studio to Siena’s cathedral. Bells rang as priests, monks, noblemen, and government officials walked beside it. Citizens held candles in their hands. They were honoring a giant …
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Focus Features This list is regularly updated as movies rotate on and off of Amazon Prime Video. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. Amazon has a little bit of everything on their streaming service, but they don’t have an interface that makes it particularly easy to find any of it. They also love …
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Photo: Ketchup Entertainment/Everett Collection People do a lot of apologizing to Andy Goodrich, the gallery owner played by Michael Keaton in Goodrich, which is strange given that the premise of the movie rests on what a fuckup he is. Andy is so oblivious about what’s going on at home that when his wife calls …
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Photo: Channel 4 This episode is going to be the most divisive thing in Britain. It will tear families apart like Brexit. It will cause a tabloid sensation like Meghan Markle. It will get Twitter abuzz like the dreaded Mexican Week. Yes, I am talking about my imaginary lover Dylan’s hat that looks like …
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