This week, Movie Monday found me watching Midnight Cowboy, the 1969 film-that-couldn’t, pulled off miraculously by director John Schlesinger. Midnight Cowboy is a spectacular blip in the vast expanse of film history, ignored by some, cult
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Welcome to the first installment of Movie Mondays. This week’s movie: Chinatown. I sat down to watch Chinatown kind of on accident. I
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For my birthday this year, my boyfriend made me this amazing list of old movies that I need to see. We call
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Michael Schur’s (Parks and Recreation) latest show The Good Place, which premiered at the tail end of last year and wrapped up
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Last Saturday, on the first full day of the new Trump administration, actor and comedian Aziz Ansari hosted Saturday Night Live. His
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As Damien Chazelle’s hopeless-romantic La La Land‘s leads fall in love during the second act, jazz pianist Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) offers a piece
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Disney has a few long-standing traditions for its princess movies, and Moana breaks nearly all of them. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) isn’t white, isn’t
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In the very last months of the dumpster fire that was 2016, Disney pulled out the much anticipated Moana for their holiday release. Set in
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In the months after Lemonade, we count our casualties. Jay Z found his masculinity squandered in his Twitter mentions (or, as I
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Originally posted 8/7/2016 on The Daily Slice. — Netflix’s animated series BoJack Horseman recently premiered its third season, and already the titular character has
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From scene one, Alex Garland’s experimental sci-fi film Ex Machina gives viewers a tense, high-paced experience filled with morally compelling undercurrents that cause viewers to
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