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Death Comes for the Movie Theatres
2020 has been a tumultous year for all of us; the movie industry has been no exception. In the same way that Amazon has been making money hand over fist during this pandemic while most in-person retailers have been shuttering and even going bankrupt, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu have been boosted at the…
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Feast Your Eyes! Top Food Movies
Thanksgiving weekend is wrapping up, a time for being with loved ones and being grateful. It’s also the American holiday that most focuses on food. At a time when not everyone can get together as usual, the traditional Thanksgiving fare of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberrry sauce, candied yams, and pies can all bring comfort…
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Streaming Services – A Breakdown
In the past few months alone, HBO Max, Peacock, and Quibi have been released, adding to the glut of streaming services available. Ten years ago, going cordless was simple and good for your wallet. Cutting out cable TV and replacing it with thousands of on-demand movies and TV shows was a no-brainer, and the only…
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10 Black Movies to Stream For Free
In the wake of the George Floyd murder, the Black Lives Matter movement and racial inequality has surged to the forefront of our social consciousness in a way that hasn’t happened since at least the Rodney King riots, and arguably since the late 1960s. Educating ourselves, and learning and unlearning, has been the process that…
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19 Best Streaming Documentaries (Quarantine Edition)
With the pandemic going on, there’s been a delay on big new narrative releases, which has meant that the biggest new pop culture phenomena have been documentaries like The Tiger King and The Last Dance. In fact, even pre-covid, we’ve been living in the golden age of documentaries for the past few years. There’s so…
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20 Underrated Streaming Movies (Quarantine Edition)
One small upside of all the craziness that’s been going on with this pandemic is that there is more streaming content than ever, with plenty of new options. There are tons of extended free trials, things for kids to watch, HBO’s biggest free content release in its history, and even SXSW film festival selections. With…
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The Criterion Channel Set For April Launch
Movie buffs, rejoice! It’s been known for a while now that the famed Criterion Collection – a set of over 1,000 carefully curated “important classic and contemporary films” – which had been previously hosted on Hulu, and then FilmStruck, was going to get its own streaming platform. Yesterday, The Criterion Channel was officially announced and…
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35 of the Best Under-The-Radar Movies on Netflix (as of January 2019)
Everyone knows about The Godfather, Making a Murderer, Breaking Bad, No Country for Old Men, Good Will Hunting, Black Mirror, or even Birdbox. But here are some titles that you may have missed, and likely won’t show up in the “Trending Now” section, along with a Netflixian subgenre descriptor (and more usefully, here are the…