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One of the best films I saw at 2023’s Toronto International Film Festival, Alexander Payne’s blissfully nostalgic The Holdovers, is a time capsule done right. It’s a film that feels steeped in both its genre and its era, yet with a story that rings true to a modern audience. Created using the film techniques of
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This year, Meghan Markle celebrated International Women’s Day by speaking at the SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas. At the panel, called “Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen,” Meghan discussed the negative effects that social media has on women, and the cyberbullying that she experienced from other women. Also joining
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My gateway to period dramas starring white girls was probably Anne of Green Gables, a Canadian classic from 1908 about an irrepressible orphan who dreams of being a writer. I consumed the books and the 1980s Emmy-winning TV series as a kid, and by middle school, I was reading Jane Austen’s Emma. Then came 1995,
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