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Let’s attempt to unpack the connections between a 1989 Robin Williams movie and Taylor Swift’s newest opus.
How Dead Poets Society Unlocks Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department
Liz Shannon Miller
Right after Taylor Swift announced that the name of her newest album would be The Tortured Poets Department, there was allegedly over a 500% spike in search interest for Dead Poets Society, the well-regarded 1989 drama with a similar name. That percentage comes from the sort of SEO/trend-baiting study that…
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Let’s attempt to unpack the connections between a 1989 Robin Williams movie and Taylor Swift’s newest opus.
How Dead Poets Society Unlocks Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department
Liz Shannon Miller
Right after Taylor Swift announced that the name of her newest album would be The Tortured Poets Department, there was allegedly over a 500% spike in search interest for Dead Poets Society, the well-regarded 1989 drama with a similar name. That percentage comes from the sort of SEO/trend-baiting study that…
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Both a Sandman spinoff and a unique supernatural tale, the new Netflix series has a lot of potential.
Dead Boy Detectives Revives What Made the CW Great — and Improves Upon It: Review
Liz Shannon Miller
Once upon a time, there was a network making television that defied all previous expectations of what “network television” could be: While The CW still exists today, it was at its peak during the years Arrow and its related spinoffs were delivering bonkers takes on DC Comics characters, alongside equally…
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Part 2 of Zack Snyder’s Netflix space opera isn’t missing the Force — it’s missing likeable characters.
Why Rebel Moon Can’t Recreate Star Wars’ Magic
Liz Shannon Miller
Watching Rebel Moon with the subtitles on is a wild experience. Zack Snyder’s two-part sci-fi epic packs in a lot of elements, dropping the viewer into a far-flung future world consumed by conflict. Lest you think that any element you see is just there at random, though, the subtitles often…
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The famed host travels to Norway, Argentina, Thailand, and Ireland in the new Max series.
Conan O’Brien Must Go, and Following Him Is Must-See TV: Review
Liz Shannon Miller
At a certain point while watching Conan O’Brien Must Go, the question arises: Is Conan O’Brien literally the tallest man in the world? Objectively, of course, this can’t be true, but watching him travel to some of the furthest points on the globe — Norway, Argentina, Thailand, and Ireland —…
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According to older cast members who lived through the fall of Saigon, The Vietnam-set drama’s take was just “how it happened” in real life.
The Sympathizer: Director Park Chan-wook and the Cast on Episode 1’s Dramatic Ending
Liz Shannon Miller
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Sympathizer Episode 1, “Death Wish.”] Fleeing a country consumed by turmoil has rarely felt as raw and immediate as it does at the end of the first episode of The Sympathizer. And according to acclaimed director Park Chan-wook, that was the goal.…
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Here’s how Jesse Plemons got cast, and what sequence had to be filmed in just one take.
“I Honestly Was Destroyed”: The Cost of Filming Civil War’s Most Horrifying Scene
Liz Shannon Miller
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Civil War.] When Consequence spoke with the cast of Civil War about the film’s most memorable scene, star Cailee Spaeny perhaps spoke for all of them about the experience: “I was like, cinematically as a film lover, I think that that will be…
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A true love triangle, also featuring Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor.
Challengers Review: Zendaya Stuns In Luca Guadagnino’s Exhilarating Tennis Drama
Liz Shannon Miller
There’s a loudness to Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers that you might not anticipate, if you primarily associate the director with his melancholy romance Call Me By Your Name. But here, the famed director has traded Sufjan Stevens for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, delivering a propulsive, captivating, and sometimes horny story…
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The infamous man’s obituary was written 30 years ago, in some ways.
A Jury Didn’t Convict O.J. Simpson. Pop Culture Did It Anyway
Liz Shannon Miller
In 2015, twenty years after a landmark legal trial exonorated accused murderer O.J. Simpson, two very different TV series attempted to reckon with not just the former football player/actor’s alleged crimes, but the impact they had on the world. The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story was the first…
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The Emmy-winning star tells Consequence that “If the film had political specificity, it would be a failure.”
Nick Offerman Says Civil War’s Lack of Politics Is the Point
Liz Shannon Miller
One of the most surprising elements of the Alex Garland movie Civil War is that despite being set in a divided and war-torn America, it’s completely free of a political angle: There’s no mention of Democrats or Republicans, or the issues that brought a fictional United States to this point.…
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