Partway through the new animated science fantasy film Nimona, the titular character, voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, tries to explain her shape-shifting ability to her partner in crime, Ballister Blackheart (Riz Ahmed), a knight with a tarnished reputation.
“Honestly?” she says, “I feel worse when I don’t do it. Like my insides are itchy. You know that se…
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On the day of his mother’s funeral in 1996, the playwright Tom Stoppard had a little spat with his stepfather Kenneth, the man who married his widowed mother in India and took her and her two young sons back with him to the U.K. “It was like the hour my mother died and we came home from the hospital and he was very upset and he didn’t entirely approve of things I was involved …
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Bayard Rustin contained multitudes. He molded intersecting social movements as an activist: nonviolence, civil rights, gay rights. He went to jail more than 25 times as a protestor. He once was featured on an album called Elizabethan Songs and Negro Spirituals. And he’s artfully played by Colman Domingo in the new eponymous movie Rustin, a biopic framed as a slice of life.&n…
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In the wake of a string of popular true-crime adaptations ranging from HBO’s The Staircase to Netflix’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story comes Hulu’s new Boston Strangler movie, out March 17.
Written and directed by Matt Ruskin (Crown Heights), Boston Strangler tells the story of 13 women who were murdered in a…
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It’s the circle of life: February was a slow month for TV, but in March—as many remained rightly, if helplessly, preoccupied by one of the scariest and most devastating geopolitical crises since World War II—we had more worthwhile new shows than seemed practical. So many, in fact, that there’s no room in this top 5 for quite a few series that would normally have ranked a…
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When TIME first curated its list of the 10 best Korean dramas available on Netflix in 2020, Squid Game had yet to be released. Since then, the show has become the most watched non-English show of all time. The broader landscape of Korean offerings on the streaming platform has also transformed massively, thanks to Netflix’s continuing billion-dollar investment in South Korea.
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