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The Atlantic
Let the Fantastic Beasts Movies Die
The Atlantic
4 min read · Apr 20th · The prequel series has tried to follow the "Harry Potter" playbook—but neglects the original franchise’s most spellbinding features.
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Netfix
M.G. Siegler
8 min read · May 12th · Fixing Netflix with less (and more) flix
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Tolkien explains why the Fellowship didn't fly the Eagles to Mordor
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WIRED
Data From a Century of Cinema Reveals How Movies Have Evolved
WIRED
2 min read · May 15th · James Cutting, a psychologist at Cornell University has been studying the evolution of cinema over the past century. He's identified several ways in which movies have changed, all of which, he argues,…
VICE
Television Is in a Showrunning Crisis
VICE
20+ min read · May 5th · More and different kinds of people can now aspire to TV’s most important job—but streaming and COVID have set them up to fail.
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Every time Heroes is played on movies and shows (Montage)
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May 6th · Welcome back for another movie montage folks! Here's another montage showing all movies that play "Heroes", by David Bowie and Brian Eno, and the cover versi...
Vox
Selling Sunset is fantastical, absurdist office drama
Vox
6 min read · Apr 27th · Selling Sunset and the irresistible allure of Barbie-on-Barbie pettiness.
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GQ Magazine
The Inside Story of The Simpsons' Remarkable Second Life
GQ Magazine
3 min read · Apr 21st · Born as a primetime satire of Middle America, The Simpsons has become something else: the inspiration for all kinds of high art, from the runways of Balenciaga to the canvases of KAWS. GQ goes inside…
Reader View · Shared by 312, including Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Lelio Simi
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Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor
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1 min read · May 8th · The BBC has today announced Ncuti Gatwa is the new Doctor set to take charge of the TARDIS
Reader View · Shared by 176, including Kat Tenbarge, Shaun King, Zoe Scaman, Prof. Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), Paolo Attivissimo
The Hollywood Reporter
Netflix's Big Wake-Up Call: The Power Clash Behind the Crash
The Hollywood Reporter
8 min read · Apr 27th · As rivals toggle between schadenfreude and fear, top creators and insiders are increasingly becoming vocal about what’s gone wrong with the streaming giant’s culture.
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Big Think
Why do some people love cringe comedy while others can't stand it?
Big Think
5 min read · Apr 26th · Why do will some people find cringe comedy hilarious, while others will see it as boring rubbish? The answer is your life experiences.
Vulture
The 101 Best Movie Sequels of All Time
Vulture
Apr 25th · Whether they come after, before, or between their predecessors, these films have created their own indelible legacies.
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VANITY FAIR
The Netflix Nightmare: What Happens When an Industry Becomes a Squid Game
VANITY FAIR
6 min read · Apr 21st · Desperate for subscriber eyeballs, streamers are pulling back on edgy content—and acting more like the networks they trounced in the revolution.
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The Daily Beast
Tudum Writers Cruelly Laid Off by Netflix Speak Out: ‘I Felt Like Adam Scott in ‘Severance’’
The Daily Beast
8 min read · Apr 29th · Netflix recruited a small army of journalists—mostly women and people of color—to run Tudum. Months later, the streamer axed them with just two weeks’ pay—so they’re fighting back.
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Esquire
The Office's Creed Bratton on The Grass Roots, Music, Drugs and Depression
Esquire
20+ min read · Apr 27th · He left The Grass Roots in ’69 and showed up on 'The Office' in ’05. What the hell happened in between? Some highs, some lows, a little music, and a lot of pain.
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VICE
Television Is in a Showrunning Crisis
VICE
20+ min read · May 5th · More and different kinds of people can now aspire to TV’s most important job—but streaming and COVID have set them up to fail.
JSTOR Daily
How "Talkies" Disrupted Movies for Deaf People
JSTOR Daily
3 min read · May 2nd · The years of silent films are sometimes described as a "golden era" in the cultural history of the American Deaf community.
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The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century
BBC News (World)
5 min read · 2021-10-19 · BBC Culture polled 206 TV experts from 43 countries in order to find the greatest TV of the 21st Century – here’s the top 100
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How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play
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~12 min read · From 2017 · Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are…
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GQ Magazine
The Inside Story of The Simpsons' Remarkable Second Life
GQ Magazine
3 min read · Apr 21st · Born as a primetime satire of Middle America, The Simpsons has become something else: the inspiration for all kinds of high art, from the runways of Balenciaga to the canvases of KAWS. GQ goes inside…
Reader View · Shared by 312, including Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Lelio Simi
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Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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2020-06-08 · As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing ...
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The Guardian
I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day
The Guardian
4 min read · 2021-12-29 · A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis
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Vulture
The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History
Vulture
2020-10-05 · From Bugs Bunny to Spike Spiegel to Miles Morales, retracing 128 years of an art form that continues to draw us all in.
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Vulture
Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
Vulture
20+ min read · 2020-07-06 · The streaming platform raised $1.75 billion and secured a roster of A-list talent, but it can’t get audiences to notice.
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The Conversation
‘Don’t Look Up’: Hollywood’s primer on climate denial illustrates 5 myths that fuel rejection of science
The Conversation
4 min read · Jan 6th · Just because something isn’t 100% certain doesn’t mean you ignore it, and other lessons from two researchers who study the problem of science denial.
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IndieWire
Here Are the Sundance 2022 Films You’re Going to Want to See
IndieWire
~16 min read · Jan 29th · We pick 16 favorites from this year’s all virtual event. Even better: Many already have distribution, some with release dates.
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