In 2022, TV was awash with the creatures of fantasy: dragons, elves, hobbits, Jedi, superheroes. How many of us, after all, tuned in to watch Princess Rhaenys soar through the floor of the Dragonpit astride her dragon, Meleys?
The coming year in television, however, seems to veer away from fantasy and more toward a reckoning with reality—or at least some parallel version of it. In <…
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Film producers were lining up in 2016 to secure rights to the life story of professional swimmers Yusra and Sara Mardini, but the sisters turned down multiple offers. The siblings were known for their remarkable story of survival and heroism, but after fleeing Syria’s ongoing civil war just one year earlier, they weren’t yet ready for the world to see it on screen.
During the…
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Victim advocates hoped that, five years after #MeToo went viral, our culture would have developed a nuanced understanding of harassment and assault. Domestic abuse, in particular, is messy and complicated. The victim often stays with the perpetrator fearing economic, social, or physical repercussions. Sometimes the victim fights back. And victims can be flawed: They don’t need to be pure …
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South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) issued a warning urging people to stop eating deep fried toothpicks. Videos of people preparing and eating the toothpicks have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram in recent months, and appear to be especially popular in South Korea.
“This is not a product to eat!” South Korea’s Ministry of Food and Drug Safety wrote in a p…
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Amid speculation about the health and whereabouts of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, some royalists tuned in to U.K. reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother to get updates from one contestant—her uncle Gary Goldsmith.
That access was short-lived, with Goldsmith being the first contestant voted out by the public and evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house on F…
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Since emerging onto the scene last summer, American rapper Ice Spice has become inescapable. From TikTok’s For You Page to the front row of New York Fashion Week shows, Spice’s signature orange curls and catchy songs (think New York drill music meets pop) are ubiquitous, making her one of the biggest breakout stars of the year so far.
Her latest appearance is on the Billboard…
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Dumb Money dramatizes the true story behind working class Redditors turned investors who flipped Wall Street on its head. Currently out in limited theaters and expanding in the coming weeks, director Craig Gillespie’s comedy-drama, written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, weaves together multiple storylines to bring to life the GameStop saga of 2021. That story, which domin…
Read moreWill.i.am’s songs have gone multi-platinum, sold 33 million albums, and won seven Grammys. But while it was his work as the founding member and leader of the musical group The Black Eyed Peas that launched him into the stratosphere, his recognition within other arenas has also grown in step with his creative platform.
“When the machine is able to make its own beats—is th…
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The widely anticipated final season of The Crown, which dropped its first four episodes on Nov. 16, picks up with the 1997 car crash that saw Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) and Dodi Fayed (Khalid Abdalla) fatally pursued by paparazzi in Paris, and largely deals with its historic fallout. As the storyline jumps back eight weeks prior to the accident, the drama further unpacks the ro…
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The Marvels, the sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel directed by Nia DaCosta, hits theaters on Friday in Marvel’s last movie release of the year. The movie combines the storylines of three Marvel characters: Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani), and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and expands on the stories of prior Marvel installments …
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