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Before Merrily We Roll Along was a musical theater triumph with the 2024 Broadway revival netting four Tony Awards including Best Revival, it was composer Stephen Sondheim's most heartbreaking flop — the original Broadway production closed after just 16 performances in 1981. The 2016 doc Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened tells the...
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Before Inside Out 2 hits theaters this weekend, go back to where it all began: 2015's Inside Out. The Pixar animated movie takes place inside the head of 11-year-old Riley as she navigates some life changes and the big emotions that come with them — particularly Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. Each emotion is personified and Joy (voiced ...
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The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson is a powerful docuseries amplifying the voice of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, whose murder served as the case behind what would become known as "the Trial of the Century." The four-part project features interviews with those closest to Nicole, those who "actually knew Nicole the best," executive...
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While Marisa Abela is portraying Amy Winehouse in a the Sam Taylor-Johnson biopic Back to Black, the true story and essence of the gone-to-soon singer was captured years before in 2015's Amy. The documentary, which comes from director Asif Kapadia, traces the singer's beginnings as a teenager with a passion for music and continues into her rapid ...
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John Green is so back. Based on Green’s 2017 novel of the same name, Turtles All the Way Down is now streaming on Max, and it reminded me why I love Green's storytelling so much. A mentally-ill protagonist paired with a Hardy Boys plot—what's not to love? Isabela Merced as a 16-year-old named Aza, who struggles with obsessive-compulsive...
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Folks, I’m here to tell you that the latest Harry Styles fanfiction movie is good. Great, even. The Idea of You—which is based on the original 2017 novel by Robinne Lee, and not, in fact, fanfiction—is now streaming on Amazon, and it's completely addicting. Anne Hathaway stars as a 40-year-old single mother who takes her teen daughter to...
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Though there's never really a bad time to watch Steven Spielberg's masterful film adaptation of West Side Story, now is an especially good time, since it stars newly-minted Internet Boyfriend Mike Faist as Jets leader Riff (yes, he sings and dances!) — his take on the character is the best I've seen, and one of the major reasons this movie...
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