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28 Apr

Shadow and Bone’s Alina is What a Modern Feminist Fantasy Heroine Looks Like

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This Shadow and Bone article contains some spoilers. Young adult fantasy fiction is one of the most popular literary genres on shelves today, full of a seemingly endless variety of stories about faeries, demons, and the sort of complex magical systems that occasionally need a flow chart to explain. It’s also full of young women, both as central characters and primary readers, all struggling and striving to figure out who they are and how they might find their own magic in the world around them.   Yet there’s a certain kind of genre fan that loves to disparage these kinds of…

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17 Apr

Synchronic Ending Makes Sci-Fi Movie a Modern Classic

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This article contains Synchronic spoilers. “Time is the school in which we learn / Time is the fire in which we burn,” wrote poet Delmore Schwartz decades ago, and if any genre filmmakers take that couplet to heart, it’s Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The self-contained directing/writing/producing/acting pair have made four feature films to date, each of them dealing in some way with the passage of time, the volatility of memory, and the warping of both. Their fourth feature, last year’s Synchronic—which makes its Netflix debut this week—is the duo’s most mature, fully developed, and coherent film yet, while also…

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18 Feb

WandaVision Goes Full Modern Family In Episode 7 First Look

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So you just used your Mind Stone-saturated witch powers to expand the hexagonal barrier further around your false reality entrapping a New Jersey town. We’ve all been there. Or at least that’s what Wanda Maximoff thinks in the latest clip from WandaVision episode 7. In advance of WandaVision episode 7, premiering tomorrow on Disney+, Marvel has unveiled a decently lengthy first look at the episode. The reveals therein are vast. For starters, it’s clear that Wanda is experiencing a bit of a magical hangover from her Halloween barrier expansion. The clip also makes clear that Wanda is not going to…

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05 Jan

Bridgerton Soundtrack Details: Which Modern Pop Songs Are Used?

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I love a good period drama that eschews “period-appropriate” tunes (whatever that means, when you’re talking non-diegetic music) to go with something a bit more modern. The Bridgerton soundtrack takes this route, with a twist. The Netflix series includes classical versions of a handful of contemporary pop tunes, from Ariana Grande to Shawn Mendes classical covers. “Everything on the show has a contemporary sensibility to it,” Bridgerton showrunner Chris Van Dusen told Seventeen. “Even though we’re in the 19th century, you sometimes forget about that and that’s intentional. We wanted modern audiences to relate to the show and see themselves…

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24 Dec

Promising Young Woman Review: a Revenge Fantasy for the Modern Female

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Rape-revenge never looked so gorgeous in Promising Young Woman. Bright colors, exquisite clothes and Carey Mulligan’s beautiful face light up the screen even when the film is at its darkest. This is a very modern and very female take on that particular sub-genre for a post- #MeToo world and it’s one of the most compelling films of the year – one which is bound to provoke much discussion after the credits roll. This is the directorial debut of Emerald Fennell, writer and showrunner on Killing Eve Season Two who is also known for portraying Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown.…

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17 Oct

Best Modern Horror Movies

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Every once in a while, someone likes to declare that the horror genre is dead, and so far, every one of those predictions has been wrong. Horror movies have been around almost as long as filmmaking itself, and while the genre has always been cyclical in nature –dipping, sometimes drastically, in both quality and quantity from time to time — all it usually takes is a well-timed box office hit, a fresh new angle or a hot young filmmaker to reanimate it again. The 21st century has been, overall, an extremely healthy one for horror. There’s been the usual amount…

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14 Sep

Nomadland Review: A Modern Day Grapes of Wrath

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They don’t recognize her at first. The students who once turned to Frances McDormand’s wearied and weathered Fern for tutoring are now almost walking right by their former educator in an early pivotal scene from Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland. Fern is at the same superstore as them to buy supplies for the beat-up RV she lives in outside. In another life they were neighbors from the mining town of Empire, Nevada. But that place is gone, and today they’re practically strangers, scattered to the wind when they bump into each other. The young girls’ mother reluctantly offers Fern a place to…

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15 Oct

Modern Family: Season 9

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Recommended In 10 Words or LessAfter eight years, the series begins to show its ageReviewer's Bias*Loves: good sitcomsLikes: Modern Family, The vast majority of the castDislikes: new sitcom kidsHates: Change for ch...Read the entire review From http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=73379

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27 Apr

Modern Life Is Rubbish

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Brought together by their shared love of music, ten years on Liam and Natalie are at breaking point. In their case opposites attract but don't necessarily work long-term. Making the difficult decision to separate, they must split their prized music library. But the sound track that defined their relationship keeps pulling them back together.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Apr 27, 2018

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29 Sep

Modern Family: Season 8

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Recommended In 10 Words or Less The kids are growing up Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Modern Family, good sitcoms Likes: The vast majority of the cast Dislikes: sitcom babies Hates: Change for change's sake The Story So Far... Telling the story of three generations of the Pritchett clan, centered around Jay (Ed O'Neill) and his kids Claire (Julie Bowen) and Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), and their respective families, Modern Family was, for all intents and purposes, an instant hit with critics and viewers (earning five Best Comedy Emmys in its first five seasons.) A single-camera sitcom without a laugh track, this…

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