entertainment
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Closing Dynasty short film directed by Llyod Lee Choi
Did you know that Netflix has short films on there? I didn’t either, until yesterday. I came across Closing Dynasty directed by Llyod Lee Choi. The short film came out in 2023 and stars young actress Milinka Winata, Eleven Lee, and Allen Chen. It takes place in New York, filming in a part not frequently… Read more
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North of North rewatch
North of North is a television show that was created by Stacy Algok Macdonald and Althea Arnaquq-Baril. The show is a Canadian comedy about Siaja Kudluk who is a young mom trying to figure out what to do with her life now that her daughter Bun is in school. Siaja is a community organizer but… Read more
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Beyond the Lights by Gina Prince Bythewood
I almost didn’t post a review for this movie after watching it. I wasn’t sure how to address certain criticisms I had of the film without coming off as a pretentious white girl. Beyond the Lights is a 2014 film directed and written by Gina Prince Bythewood. It stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as popstar Noni, and… Read more
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Best of the Best 2026 Lena Khan
Best of the Best is a college coming of age story starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan from Never Have I Ever as Maya and Priyanka Kedia as Anjali. The film follows the two best friends during their first year at UCLA. Outspoken Maya, who had an embarrassing moment from high school go viral, struggles to fit in… Read more
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Selma, directed by Ava Duvernay, 2014
Selma was a film released in 2014 by director Ava Duvernay. The film follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after winning is Nobel Peace Prize and his organized March from Selma to Montgomery. The film is a harrowing look at the Civil Rights Movement, that leaves the viewer with a deeper understanding of what it… Read more
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Another Nepo Baby enters the entertainment world
Apple Martin is the daughter of Gwenyth Paltrow and Coldplay singer Chris Martin. In what was probably a ridiculous easy push from her parents, InStyle Magazine wrote up an Instagram post about Martin’s modeling deal with Chloe. Again, which she probably got easily because of her famous parents. The campaign features an expressionless Martin “reading”… Read more
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The Problem with Nostalgia
The problem with nostalgia reboots is that studios will greenlight something based on a name. They won’t put any effort into creating anything new which means we get the same shows and movies for 20+ years. The other thing, particularly with something like Harry Potter or Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, is that those books/shows are… Read more
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Why a former Harry Potter fan doesn’t want you to watch the new show
I’m a 90’s kid. I grew up during the height of the Harry Potter obsession. I still own the books, the original movies, and I have a blanket a family member made me (who is dead now, and it has my name embroidered on it, which is why I kept it). As a young reader,… Read more
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Thoughts on the Oscars
Last night, Michael B. Jordan celebrated his Oscars win at In-N-Out, which is the most California kid thing he could have done. It made me happy, because recently, it seems like Hollywood is particularly unattainable. Every time you read about an actor, it turns out they’re a nepobaby, related to someone with money or someone… Read more
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The Possession 2012
The Possession is a 2012 horror movie by the same screenwriter, Juliet Snowden, who wrote the Ouija movies. The film stars Jeffery Dean Morgan as Clyde Brenek, a basketball coach going through a divorce with his wife, Stephanie, played by Kyra Sedgewick. After one of their daughters, ten-year-old Emily, becomes fixated with an antique box… Read more