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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Episode 1 – Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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This article contains major spoilers for Netflix’s Hollywood. Ryan Murphy’s new Netflix series is here. And as Hollywood begins tripping the light fantastic on your streaming service, we’re here to provide you with some texture, color, and insight on all the little easter eggs about the Dreamland that was. We’ve already gone further in-depth here with regard to the real historical players bouncing around Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan’s fantasy, but here we begin a nice overview of all the little nods (and perhaps come-hither stares that accompany their winks) in the show. Go here to find all our coverage,…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood: The Real History of Peg Entwistle and Opening Credits Explained

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This article contains some Hollywood spoilers. The story of Peg Entwistle, and the voluminous newspaper copies her death sold, is at the heart of Hollywood’s first season. The Ryan Murphy produced Netflix series even makes the tragic iconography associated with her suicide the basis of its opening credits—but with a twist. Whereas the real Peg Entwistle flung herself from the top of the H of the “Hollywoodland” sign in 1932—back before it had simply become “Hollywood”—the entire younger half of the Hollywood ensemble cast scales up the sign together as a team in the new TV show’s credits. The meaning…
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29 Apr

Hollywood Review (Spoiler-Free)

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This Hollywood review contains no spoilers is based on all seven episodes. There are two ideas that sum up what Hollywood means to Ryan Murphy, both the place and the new television series he named after it. The first is stated with cynicism by Dylan McDermott, who previously starred in Murphy’s American Horror Story: “The movies hawk an image of wholesome American virtue, right? But the folks making those movies [are] rotten to the core.” And yet, in the same episode, Darren Criss (who starred in Murphy’s Glee) dreams aloud, “Movies just don’t show us how the world is; they…
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20 Mar

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to Premiere on Starz Streaming Next Week

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When you reach the end of the road with a movie that’s been more than a brother and a little less than a wife, you both know there is only one thing left to do: Get to streaming it over and over again on the nearest available app. That’s about to be Starz in regards to Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, the ninth and allegedly penultimate film of the iconoclastic auteur’s career. Fresh off winning two of 10 Oscar nominations, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood will makes its non-VOD streaming debut via the STARZ app, available…
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23 Jul

Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood

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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age. Rated: RRelease Date: Jul 26, 2019
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27 Sep

306 Hollywood

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When two siblings undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother's house, they embark on a magical-realist journey in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Sep 28, 2018
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11 Apr

Hitler’s Hollywood

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Filmmaker Rudiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was essentially an immersive movie starring the German nation, produced and directed by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Hitler?s Hollywood collages key films from the more than 1000 features the Nazis produced from 1933-1945: musicals, melodramas, romances, costume dramas, war films ? and when the real war got tough, insanely lavish, over-the-top fantasies. The German folk were portrayed as happy and sporty with lives of exaggerated cheerfulness or, conversely, full of morbid yearning for a death that would serve the Fatherland. Hannah Arendt gives perspective and context: ?One of the chief characteristics of…
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