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Back on top-ish. This season, wonky at times, is a return to form, and thankfully, not as in love with itself as last season.

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Haunting, illuminating, and surprisingly profound in Mariska's doc directorial debut.

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I heard great things about this Polish prison drama from newsletter. The pilot isn't great but I am a couple episodes in and I feel like it's starting to find its footing.

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Watch The Convict on Max. Plans start at $9.99/month. Judge Alicja wrongly imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit, seeks revenge on those who set her up while surviving among the women she sentenced.

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Rudin gets uncancelled. Glad cell phones weigh less.  

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Rudin gets uncancelled. Glad cell phones weigh less.  

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Producer Scott Rudin Sets Broadway Return With New Play Starring Laurie Metcalf And Micah Stock; Joe Mantello Will Direct

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Samuel D. Hunter’s ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, will premiere on Broadway for a limited 18-week run this fall.

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Lucy had mentioned this Sundance darling and Kudos to A24 for supporting the indie darlings of yesteryear. Could this be a model for the future - "8 Tentpole-ish movies for us, 1 for you cinophiles that make us no money." ?

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Really loved this! -Shelby

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SALLY | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films

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Avail. - John Cheever debut novel. Just bought to read. Would need updating but multi-generational Mass. family drama + won National book award.

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Avail - less literary but more of a mystery element / engine due to disappearance.

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Chances Are... is a mystery novel by American author Richard Russo. Initially published in 2019, it was his first standalone novel in a decade. The title is taken from a 1950s hit single by Johnny Mathis. "Chances Are..." is a slow-building mystery novel based around the disappearance of a young woman in 1971.

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An interesting true story about a man who experienced locked-in syndrome while doctors and his family believed he was braindead for 18 months. The best part of the podcast is how charming Jake Haendel is but the malicious conduct of his wife and the family drama that surrounded him don't have a real cinematic climax. But I'm sure the idea of locked-in syndrome could inspire a horror movie.

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This felt really original in tone. I didn't love it but was intrigued by the voice...especially because the filmmaker is writing/directing a feature-length version which will be produced by Killer, Fit Via Fi, and Josh Peters. And Will Sharpe is attached to star.

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Only just starting, but the tone is worthy of discussion.

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TRUE DETECTIVE - Season 1 - There is an ugliness and sense of place that I think 'Rios' could glean.

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This is not adaptable (nor is it particularly propulsive) but it is just a beautifully shot Portuguese film. The filmmaker won best director for the film at Cannes last year and it's now on Mubi

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Miguel Gomes Portugal, Italy, 2024

Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Miguel Gomes's transcendent travelogue sets sail for spellbinding horizons, where romance and adventure thrillingly entwine. Guided by the capricious will of the heart, this epic tale of love on the run is a movable feast for the mind and the senses.

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Burma, 1917. Edward, a civil servant for the British Empire, jilts his lovestruck fiancée Molly the day she arrives to be married. As he flees into an unexpected odyssey across Asia, the free-spirited Molly-amused by his moves-follows in pursuit, embarking on a globe-trotting cat-and-mouse chase.

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Really enjoyed this film! One thing I most appreciated is that even periphery characters had fully developed back stories which helped the world feel real and made each character deeply human, which was a main theme of the film.

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JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE | Official Trailer (2025)

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Read this BOOK for the first time.  Could a LIMITED for this story work in today's market??? 

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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row

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Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

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A man with an obscure claim to a royal fortune made a deal to help regain his crown. It cost him more than he could imagine

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He's just the best we have at writing complicated characters and his 'voice' is unparalleled. Blinks

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Mike White's Mischievous Vision for "The White Lotus" - The New Yorker

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Sex, money, morals, and the making of an ever-shifting franchise.

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I watched this last night. It feels pretty culturally specific so I am not sure how you'd transpose it to the US but I was fascinated by the concept.

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In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession, a “mistress dispeller” who is hired to maintain the bonds of marriage -- and break up affairs -- by any means necessary. Offering strikingly intimate access to private dramas usually hidden behind closed doors, Mistress Dispeller follows a real, unfolding case of infidelity as Teacher Wang attempts to bring a couple back from the edge of crisis. Their story shifts our sympathies between husband, wife and mistress to explore the ways emotion, pragmatism and cultural norms collide to shape romantic relationships in contemporary China.

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Nowhere did I witness the guardsmen at the gates of the mind — those responsible for self-consciousness and self-doubt — more swiftly outsmarted, pacified, or outright killed than in that room. And the children seemed to inherently grasp the complex psychodramatic relationship they shared with their dummies — they were not sidekick, nor instrument, nor prop, but extension of brain and self.

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Program Guide | 2025 Sundance Film Festival

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Discover the 2025 film lineup and our eclectic program of events, conversations, and live entertainment to round out your Festival experience.

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Oscar Nominated Short

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-Austin Film Festival 2023
-Seattle International Film Festival 2023
-Vancouver International Film Festival 2023
-Rhode Island International Film Festival 2023
-Brooklyn Film Festival 2024
-Flickerfest 2023
-Salute Your Shorts 2024
-Ennesimo Film Festival 2023
-Postira Seaside Film Festival 2023
-Houston Latino Film Festival 2024

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We Need To Talk About 'Adolescence'...

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Why ‘Adolescence’ Is Sparking Conversations About Incel Dread Online — Rolling Stone

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Netflix’s new limited series is leading to discourse about who the manosphere targets — and who gets hurt in the process

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In the Rockets’ Red Glare, by Rachel Kushner

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The past and future of hot-rodding in America

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I can't wait to see this doc. I know nothing about him, but he's always mentioned when people talk about 'the great ballerinas of our time.'

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For Sondheim fans this was a treat! First act is an incredible arrangement of his biggest numbers, second act lulls a bit with more deep cuts but a still heartwarming tribute to Sondheim.

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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends Tickets | Broadway Musical | Center Theatre Group

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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends comes to Broadway from London’s West End, where it earned a bevy of 5-star raves and was hailed by The Times as “unmissable musical theatre.”

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Review | If Samuel Beckett wrote ‘Groundhog Day,’ you might get this Danish novel

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The first two books of “On the Calculation of Volume,” by Solvej Balle, a commercial and critical success in Denmark, are now in English.