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While it is by no means a perfect science fiction movie, Gareth Edwards' The Creator has many positive elements that warrant it a must-watch. Set in the future where a war between humans and artificial intelligence has broken out, former special forces agent Joshua (John David Washington) is recruited to hunt down and kill the source, known...
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Based on the acclaimed video game of the same name, The Last of Us is set in a post apocalyptic world where a mutant fungus pandemic has raged across the United States, turning its human hosts into aggressive creatures. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a hardened survivor, is tasked with transporting Ellie, a 14-year-old girl who was infected but never...
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When you think "comfort movies," a bloody action flick isn't quite what comes to mind, right? But whenever I want to watch something familiar that makes me smile, I often find myself pressing play on The Old Guard. There's just something about Charlize Theron-led action movies! The Old Guard, which dropped on Netflix in the thick of the...
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When it comes to engaging true-crime television, it doesn't get better than Unsolved Mysteries. Volume 4 of Netflix's revival of the iconic series recently dropped, gifting fans with five new episodes. From Jack the Ripper to The Mothman, the new season is an eclectic mix of mysteries, but the best of the bunch are "Murder, Center Stage," which...
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Now that Love Lies Bleeding is streaming on Max, even more people will get a chance to watch Kristen Stewart’s excellent lesbian crime thriller that came out earlier this year. And I highly encourage you to do so, because it is excellent. Written and directed by Rose Glass (also known for her 2019 horror film, St. Maud), Love Lies Bleeding is ...
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Netflix's latest YA offering A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is tailor-made to hook you from the jump. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder follows good girl Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) as she digs into a murder mystery that's held her small English hometown in a chokehold for years. While everyone ...
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Before there was brat summer, there was Nicholas Sparks summer. Based on the iconic romance author's novel of the same name, The Last Song follows a rebellious teenager named Ronnie (Miley Cyrus) who, along with her little brother, gets sent to live with her father for the summer in his beach-front home. While she was once a prodigy pianist,...
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Apple TV+'s latest star-studded TV show is Lady in the Lake, an ambitious adaptation of Laura Lippman's novel of the same name starring Natalie Portman, Moses Ingram, Mikey Madison, and David Corenswet. The series follows two very different heroines in 1969 Baltimore. Maddie Morgenstern (Natalie Portman) is a disaffected Jewish housewife who is...
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Though there are a plethora of World War II movies to choose from today, Greyhound is one that should not be missed. Based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd, the film follows Tom Hanks' US Navy Commander Ernest Krause as he is assigned to lead a convoy of ships across the Atlantic during the height of the war. Once his convoy is out of...
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