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TV Review - Queens (2021)
Following ABC's Nashville (2012) and FOX's Empire (2015), we have another series on broadcast television that is about people in the music industry. Both Nashville and Empire featured older artists and...
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TV Review - Hawkeye (2021)
This is the 5th series on Disney + that's apart of the Marvel Cinematic Universe or MCU. It follows the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019). Like with most of those series, this one is reckoning with...
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Movie Review - A Journal for Jordan
This is the fourth feature, directed by Denzel Washington. It's his third feature that's based on a true story. It's his first feature that he's directed in which he's not also an actor. Washington has...
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Movie Review - The Matrix Resurrections
This film wants to be Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) or Creed (2015). What it ends up being is more in line with Scream 4 (2011) or Glass (2019). What it wants is to be like those 2015 flicks and...
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Movie Review - Don't Look Up (2021)
Adam McKay is an Oscar-winner for The Big Short (2015), which was about the 2007-2008 financial crisis with a satirical and comedic eye to the whole situation. He was nominated for writing and...
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Movie Review - Licorice Pizza
I've never really been a fan of Paul Thomas Anderson. Yes, all of his films have been critically acclaimed and most of them get nominated for Academy Awards. Two of which have been up for Best Picture,...
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Movie Review - Red Rocket
Sean Baker is a filmmaker whose last films include Tangerine (2015) and The Florida Project (2017). Both those films were about marginalized people, people who are impoverished and struggling to...
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Movie Review - Drive My Car
This is Japan's official submission for Best International Feature at the 94th Academy Awards. It's been critically acclaimed and nominated at various organizations. Some have said that it's one of the...
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Best Music of 2021
The 64th Grammy Award nominations were announced in November. The ceremony was supposed to occur on January 31 at the Crypto.com Arena, formerly the Staples Center, but it has been postponed due to...
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Best Moments on TV of 2021
I don't subscribe to Apple TV+, so I haven't seen Ted Lasso, which won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. There was a little bit of controversy with the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in that,...
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Best Movies of 2021
20. RESPECT by Liesl Tommy - This film follows a National Geographic series about Aretha Franklin. Jennifer Hudson, however, was hand-picked by Franklin to play her. Hudson's vocal chops makes her the...
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Best Music of 2022... So Far
For nine weeks, the soundtrack to Disney's Encanto (2021) was number one on the Billboard charts. It featured music inspired by Latin American countries and performed by artists of Latin American...
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Best Moments on TV of 2022... So Far
I have overlooked certain shows that have been critically acclaimed, such as Ozark (2017), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Barry (2018), Ted Lasso (2020), Squid Game (2021) and Hacks (2021). I'm also...
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Best Movies of 2022... So Far
Tom Cruise has soared past a number of box office records this year with his blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. The hit film had the biggest opening weekend of any of Cruise's previous. It quickly became...
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Movie Review - Waking Up Dead (2022)
This is the second feature from writer, director and editor, Terracino. His debut feature was exactly a decade ago with the queer romantic comedy, Elliot Loves (2012). This film could certainly play as...
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TV Review - Gayliens
Mark Bessenger's anthology series features gay men dealing or interacting with extraterrestrials. Each episode has different characters in different stories that are unconnected. Each episode has some...
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Best Music of 2022
The nominations for the 65th Grammy Awards were announced on November 15. Beyoncé received the most nominations with a total of nine. This ties her with her husband and rapper, Jay-Z, as the most...
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Best Moments on TV of 2022
According to Metacritic, Severance (2022) on Apple TV+ is the most acclaimed series on television. Among the top shows, there's Better Call Saul on AMC, Barry on HBO, Reservation Dogs on FX, Abbott...
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Best Movies of 2022
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) has grossed over two billion dollars in the box office. By the time, it leaves theaters, it will likely be in the top-five films of all-time with the highest worldwide...
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Best Music of 2023... So Far
When it comes to music over the past six months, there are three stories to be told. The first involves singer-songwriter SZA. Her second album SOS (2022) has been burning up the charts this year. It...
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Best Moments on TV of 2023... So Far
The final seasons of HBO's Succession, as well as HBO's Barry and Apple TV's Ted Lasso have garnered a lot of critical attention. In fact, it seems very likely that all three will land a lot of Emmy...
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Best Movies of 2023... So Far
Currently, The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) is the highest grossing film of the year. It's the first theatrical release of this calendar to achieve a billion-dollars worldwide. It's the first time...
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Best Music of 2023
Taylor Swift was voted "Person of the Year" by Time magazine. She's the first woman to be recognized more than once for this honor. The Eras Tour was the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. It...
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Best TV Shows of 2023
Television took a hit due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in the summer of 2023, which ran into the fall TV season. Fall TV is critical for the broadcast networks in particular. It also affected the...
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Best Movies of 2023
The story of the year is Barbenheimer. On July 21, Warner Bros. released Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023). It was on the same day that Universal released Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023). It was...
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