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Beautiful, eccentric, fiercely private and completely unpredictable, Greek actress Despina Mirou brings something to Hollywood that can’t easily be manufactured: mystery. Hollywood has always loved the femme fatale. The unforgettable woman who enters a room and changes its temperature. She’s beautiful, certainly, but beauty isn’t what makes people watch her. It’s the sense that there’s
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Early into Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Sundance-anointed filmmaker Kris (Hannah Einbinder) explains to erstwhile scream queen Billy Presley (Gillian Anderson) that she’s been parachuted in to resurrect the ​“zombie IP” that is the teen slasher Camp Miasma franchise because she’s queer. After araft of progressively worse sequels, an ocean’s-worth of
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“Awards!” says Moira Rose in the comedy seriesSchitt’s Creek when asked about her favourite season. Hard relate! The 26/27 season is set to be agood one. Apple TV, whose contenders includeWidow’s Bay andPluribus, have secured 87 Emmy nominations, Netflix earned 111 nominations for shows likeBeef andThe Diplomat but stretching out ahead in first place is
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The Walking Dead‘s newest hero has the same big Rick energy as the show’s original protagonist. Ever since Rick left the original show in season 9, the zombie franchise has floundered trying to introduce a survivor who matches his energy. While long-term heroes like Daryl and Maggie helped lead the charge up through The Walking
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Body horror, at its best, reacquaints us with the flesh, asking us to accept the strange and often disturbing experiences of what that entails. Veronica’s nightmare of giving birth to awrithing maggot-baby – arguably the film’s most unforgettable image – locates that same fear of threatened bodily autonomy in unmistakably gendered terms. Brundle fears the
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Puerile teen humour and maudlin sentiment clash awkwardly in this underpowered second feature from British writer/​director George Jaques, which captures one crazy summer at acamp for agroup of young people in the midst of cancer care. Jaques has spoken in the media about how his intentions for this film were to avoid the downbeat clichés
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There is an Oak Street, like an Elm Street, in every suburban American neighbourhood. It is ageneric, commonplace street name, suggestive of strength, solidarity and goodness, as wholesome and nostalgia-tinged as American pie. Those values are instantiated in the opening sequence of David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, which shows everyone happily participating
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It’s been ten years since Sian Clifford first graced our screens as Claire in Fleabag, and Lady reminds us exactly why we fell for her in the first place. This debut feature from Samuel Abrahams arrives disguised as yet another entry in the crowded ​‘eat the rich’ canon, but quickly reveals itself to be something
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Living in acruel dystopia where the most commercially successful film biopic of all time is awan apologia for Michael Jackson’s sex crimes, it’s nice to see something that is abit more critical about its subject. Tony charts abrief summer during the formative years of the late chef, gourmand and cultural wayfarer Anthony Bourdain, and it
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Villain deaths in animation are often some of the most unforgettable or defining moments in a series, especially when done in a way that completely subverts expectations. Sometimes villains meet ends that are shockingly harsh and brutal, completely blindsiding audiences who perhaps thought the animated series or film wouldn’t push things that far. These deaths
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Sony’s PlayStation 2 is the best-selling console of all time, and there’s a good reason for that. The PS2 had some of the best video games of the 2000s, especially when it came to exclusives like Jak & Daxter, Grand Turismo 3, and Final Fantasy 10. Even multi-platform releases like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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Within the growing tradition of films about making films, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani have carved out adistinctive emotional landscape in which to explore that process. Like Gints Zilbalodis’Flow,Bouchra demonstrates the possibilities of using an open-source 3D software like Blender to explore visual storytelling. Beyond the technology behind it, the film’s greatest achievement lies in
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“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion,” wrote George Orwell, envisioning the dystopian kibosh put on human spirit by the jackbooted state in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Little did he realize that his sweeping prescience would extend to the premise of the new rom-com One Night Only, afilm that for legal reasons cannot be officially titled Sex
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Mahershala Ali’s recent exit from the MCU appears to have confirmed Wesley Snipe’s iconic line from Deadpool & Wolverine’s, but truthfully, it’s already been debunked. Deadpool & Wolverine did an incredible job integrating and paying homage to a variety of previous MCU properties with major stars from the Fox era and earlier returning and officially
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“Unfortunately, I’m addicted to dreaming,” James Bidgood said in a2010 interview with Butt Magazine when describing his relationship with fantasy. Indeed, across photography and filmmaking, but also in window-dressing, styling, costume design and performance, Bidgood would translate the land of his dreams into ahyperstylised reality with displays of beauty that pulsed with agenuine aesthetic power.
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The popularity of the Western genre has surged in recent years, with the best neo-Western TV shows reminding viewers of the sense of fun and danger that classic Western series carried, while updating the outdated tropes and caricatures that belong in history’s trash can. That said, there are many old-school Western TV shows that still
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