‘EEAAO’ Wasn’t Stephanie Hsu & the Daniels’ First Team-Up
Long before Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (or, the Daniels) directed Everything Everywhere All at Once, they directed one of their Academy Award-nominated actresses, Stephanie Hsu, on television in a genre-defying piece of cinematic absurdity - Awkwafina Is Nora From…
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Is The Last of Us Just Logan Meets The Walking Dead
By holding steady with audience approval ratings in the high 90s episode after episode, HBO's hit show The Last of Us is quickly becoming one of the highest rated TV shows around. It's often been touted as one of the…
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The Best Movie Posters Of 2022
It’s been a fun year for posters, hasn’t it? From the major marketing fail of the poster for “The Northman” that simply forgot the title to the optical illusions of “Nope” and the inexplicable vintage flair of “Confess Fletch,” those…
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SBIFF: “God’s Time”- A Fast, Well-Written, Character Piece
Five minutes into writer/director Daniel Antebi’s “God’s Time”, it is abundantly clear that first time actress Liz Caribel Sierra has serious skills. Her character Regina is pure fire from moment one and the newcomer dives into the deep end of…
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Before ‘Poker Face,’ Rian Johnson Gave Us the Ultimate Con Movie
Before Poker Face and the Knives Out films, Rian Johnson gave us his Wes Anderson-esk caper flick, The Brothers Bloom. The director's gonzo sophomore film centers on a pair of siblings who make a living out of staging highly ornate…
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How the Air Trailer Chronicles the Rise of Nike and Michael Jordan
Ben Affleck made his directorial debut nearly 15 years ago with the acclaimed Boston kidnapping thriller Gone Baby Gone. Who knew the heartthrob known mostly for clunky action thrillers and few notable dramatic turns had it in him? He followed…
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Tony Gilroy Breaks Down Season One & Teases The Many Difficulties Of Mounting A Rebellion In Season Two [The Rogue Ones Podcast]
The Rogue Ones: A Star Wars Andor Podcast returns for one last episode with hosts Mike DeAngelo and The Playlist’s Editor-In-Chief, Rodrigo Perez. As with the previous episodes, each week, our hosts will recap and review the latest “Andor” episode and…
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Ashton Kutcher Needs to Stop Playing One-Dimensional Characters
Ashton Kutcher makes his return to the romantic comedy genre with Reese Witherspoon in the Netflix film Your Place or Mine, in which the two play lifelong friends who begin to develop a relationship. While Kutcher has mostly been on…
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How Attractive Movie Star Body Images Changed and Evolved Over Time
What people find beautiful in terms of body image is often subjective depending on what time period or culture you're from. The same hasn't always been true of mainstream Hollywood. For many decades, movie stars were seen as the archetypal…
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The Playlist’s 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Film fans are notoriously hard to shop for: hoarders by nature, obnoxiously opinionated, and weirdly unpredictable in our tastes. But the good news is, there are so many options for the movie lover on your gift list – so many…
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The Thin Line Between Artistic Expression, Press Freedom and Animal Feces
At a packed Hannover state opera house, German newspaper critic Wiebke Hüster had dog feces smeared on her face by award-winning ballet director Marco Goecke, who apparently took offence at her review of a production he staged in The Hague.…
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Steven Spielberg Nearly Directed an Animated Version
Today, it’s hard to imagine physical versions of the Harry Potter characters that aren’t inhabited by actors like Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, or Rupert Grint. Over eight movies, these performers and so many others have been cemented as the de…
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