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19 Feb

Link Tank: Why You Should Watch Russell T. Davies’ It’s a Sin

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Russell T. Davies’ new series It’s a Sin is a triumph and an essential lesson in Britain’s LGBTQ+ history. “Around 10pm on Friday, January 22, Britain’s social media feeds were in the midst of an emotional onslaught. The first episode of It’s a Sin, writer Russell T. Davies’ anticipated miniseries set at the height of the AIDS crisis, had just finished airing on Channel 4, with millions realizing: This was a landmark moment for British TV.” Read more at Thrillist. After this week’s spectacular WandaVision episode, we need to talk about Monica Rambeau. “Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) has easily been…
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19 Jan

It’s a Sin Review: Russell T Davies AIDS Drama is a Soaring Tribute

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Here’s a rule you can’t go wrong with: when Russell T Davies writes a TV show, watch it. His dramas are full-size orchestras of the heart. They do everything: joy, agony, love, sex, sorrow, laughter, and increasingly, righteous anger. In state-of-the-nation BBC drama Years and Years, the Queer as Folk creator looked ahead to the nightmarish world of the near future. In Channel 4’s It’s a Sin, he looks back to the 1980s and the pall cast over gay male lives by the AIDS epidemic.  With an impeccable cast led by the luminous Olly Alexander, It’s a Sin is Davies’ best yet; a joyful…
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04 Dec

Mank and Amanda Seyfried’s Quest to Save Marion Davies from Citizen Kane

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Amanda Seyfried is a fan of old school movies and classic Hollywood. Considering the Mank star has been acting since she was a teenager, this isn’t a surprise. In her mind it’s a prerequisite, something that comes with the territory: each young actor is obligated to “study film on the job” when starting out. So she’s seen Citizen Kane, of course, and knew the stories of Orson Welles’ masterpiece taking on newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst. And yet, even she was barely aware of Marion Davies, the once popular movie star from a century ago whose image Kane left like…
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