9 Best Articles in 2021
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How Netflix works: the (hugely simplified) complex stuff that happens every time you hit Play
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~11 min read · 316 saves · From 2017 · Mayukh Nair · 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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Police: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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295 saves · 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 ...
Vulture
Is Anyone Watching Quibi?
Vulture
20+ min read · 272 saves · 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.
Vulture
The 100 Most Influential Sequences in Animation History
Vulture
256 saves · 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.
The New York Times
The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far.
The New York Times
210 saves · From 2017 · A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis rank the best films made since 2000.
Vulture
Cops Are Always the Main Characters
Vulture
5 min read · 179 saves · 2020-06-01 · TV perfected the cop show, metastasized it, and then franchised it into ubiquity. How does that affect the way audiences think about police?
British GQ
John Boyega: 'I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race'
British GQ
~17 min read · 176 saves · 2020-09-02 · In his first interview since finishing Star Wars and that unguarded address from a Hyde Park stage, he explains how both platforms inspired him to make a stand, but for very different reasons.
The Atlantic
30 Movies That Are Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
The Atlantic
~15 min read · 176 saves · 2020-05-23 · David Sims · These films, each unforgettable in its own way, are essential viewing.
The Guardian
The 100 best films of the 21st century
The Guardian
167 saves · 2019-09-13 · Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000
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Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis
The Guardian
1 min read · 62 saves · Jan 6th · Helen Russell · Critics condemn idea of animated series about a man who cannot control his penis, but others have backed it
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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2020: A Video Countdown
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60 saves · Jan 11th · edited by david ehrlich to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/
Guardian Books
Bridgerton author Julia Quinn: 'I've been dinged by the accuracy police
Guardian Books
6 min read · 34 saves · Jan 12th · Alison Flood · Her ‘hot and crazy’ novels about feisty women bedding rakish aristocrats have become a Netflix sensation. The writer talks about literary snobs, colour-conscious casting and the curse of Jane Austen
The Guardian
'Maybe death isn't the end': can a TV series prove the existence of an afterlife?
The Guardian
4 min read · 32 saves · Jan 7th · Radheyan Simonpillai · In the Netflix docuseries Surviving Death, a ‘non-believer’ film-maker explores the possibility that something else might be waiting for us at the end
Vulture
Netflix to Adapt Three of Author Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism Books
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1 min read · 31 saves · Jan 16th · Specifically Stamped From the Beginning, STAMPED: Racism, Antiracism and You, and Antiracist Baby.
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Godzilla vs. Kong – Official Trailer
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26 saves · Jan 24th · In theaters and streaming exclusively on @HBOMax* March 26. *Available on @HBOMax in the US only, for 31 days, at no extra cost to subscribers.https://www.go...
Vulture
What Will TV’s Next Four Years Look Like?
Vulture
6 min read · 21 saves · Jan 14th · Cable news and late-night TV have their work cut out for them.
Variety
Bryan Fogel on Why Netflix and Streamers Were Scared of Releasing 'The Dissident'
Variety
6 min read · 16 saves · Jan 15th · Bryan Fogel’s “The Dissident” was too hot to handle. The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist and political activist who was allegedly killed in 2018 on…
Los Angeles Times
Netflix's 'Night Stalker' series deftly captures a terrifying L.A. summer
Los Angeles Times
2 min read · 16 saves · Jan 13th · The four-part docuseries “Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer” depicts a time and place that many Angelenos will never forget.
Rolling Stone
'Too Long; Didn't Watch': A New Rolling Stone Podcast With TV Critic Alan Sepinwall
Rolling Stone
1 min read · 16 saves · Jan 6th · Ever feel like you can’t keep up with all the TV out there today? You’re not alone. Our new podcast features star guests like Jon Hamm and Alison Brie watching smash-hit shows they̵…
