I never personally knew Mary Tyler Moore but from a very early age, always felt like I did. Leaping off the glazed expanse of my television screen, hair perfectly coiffed, smile bright and genuine, she had the kind of vivaciousness …
Category: Film
Underrated Christmas Movies: Five Films To Watch Today
Classic Christmas flicks are like the gingerbread cookies of Yuletide cinema: comforting, dependable and a safe bet to please. But you know what else is comforting, dependable and a safe bet to please? An open bar holiday party at your office. And …
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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life Reviewed
[Image via Netflix] WARNING: A CRAZY AMOUNT OF SPOILERS AHEAD … After what seems like an actual year of waiting, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life has finally made its caffeinated, fast-talking, pop-culture-referencing debut on Netflix. While the very …
Halloween is Coming and the Netflix Candy and Confections Division Can’t Wait
I mean, good for Netflix. Not only is the world’s biggest Internet television network killing it on the stock market, the company is also killin’ it with its marketing, too. This morning, Netflix sent out a faux-press release about “Netflix Pausing,” …
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Legends of the Hidden Temple: A Nickelodeon Classic Returns
When I think about growing up as a 90s baby, three things immediately come to mind: pogs, butterfly clips (because pre-teen hair goals were best achieved by looking like a human garden gnome) and of course, Legends of the Hidden …
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Fifty Shades Darker Might Be OK
The thing I remember most about reading Fifty Shades Darker, E.L. James’ follow-up to the insanely successful Fifty Shades of Grey, was how trite and strange the story had become, as if James took the best of what she recalled from …
Finding Dory? Find The Exit
This post was written by guest blogger, Lexi Tess, animated-movie enthusiast and discerning Disney•Pixar critic … By Lexi Tess [WARNING: The article you are about to read contains spoilers for the movie, Finding Dory. Oh wait, if you’ve seen Finding Nemo, then Finding Dory has already …
The Girl On the Train Looks Like One Heck Of A Ride
To read Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train is to take a lurid trip not only on a locomotive clacking its mundane way down the steel tracks of London but also to descend into the mind of a woman slipping earnestly …
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Ghostbusters Premiere: The Lady In Red
It ended with a red dress and began with a single tweet. What happened in the middle is open for interpretation. Here’s mine … Let me start off by saying fashion is a funny animal; at once irreverent, delicate, brash, …
These Romantic Comedies Create Unrealistic Expectations About Modern Love
Ah, summer love. Can’t you taste the half-melted strawberry and vanilla ice cream shared with a single spoon or feel the thrill of jumping from a tire swing, hands entwined, right into a sunshine-warmed lake? And don’t you just see the …
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