The Idea of You (2024)Director: Michael ShowalterScreenwriter: Michael Showalter, Jennifer WestfeldtStarring: Anne Hathaway, Nicholas Galitzine Prior the release of Amazon Prime’s The Idea of You – starring Anne Hathaway as a 40-year-old single mother looking for a new lease on life and Nicholas Galitzine as the young, British pop star with whom she has a […]
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Challengers (2024)Director: Luca GuadagninoScreenwriter: Justin KuritzkesStarring: Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor When 18-year-old rising tennis star Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) first meets best friends and fellow tennis players Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) and Art Donaldson (Mike Faist), she tells them that tennis is more than just hitting a ball with a racket – it’s a relationship.
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Charade (1963)Director: Stanley DonenScreenwriter: Peter StoneStarring: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot, Ned Glass, Jacques Marin, Paul Bonifas, Thomas Chelimsky Less than a month before Stanley Donen’s Charade was set to premiere, American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. His death was one of the defining moments of the
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)Director: Gil JungerScreenwriter: Karen McCullah, Kirsten SmithStarring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Andrew Keegan, Gabrielle Union, David Krumholtz, Susan May Pratt, Allison Janney, Larry Miller In Ten Things I Hate About You, the 1999 teen comedy based on William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew”, bad
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)Director: Francis Ford CoppolaScreenwriter: James V. HartStarring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Sadie Frost, Richard E. Grant, Cary Elwes, and Anthony Hopkins Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” is one of the most popular and well-known works in English literature, a seminal gothic horror novel that dominated our conception of the vampire well into
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)Director: Zelda WilliamsScreenwriter: Diablo CodyStarring: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Joe Chrest, and Carla Gugino Mary Shelley spent a lot of her time in cemeteries. As writer Bess Lovejoy explained in her 2018 article for JSTOR Daily, Shelley would often take walks through the St. Pancras churchyard and visit the grave of
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Damsel (2024)Director: Juan Carlos FresnadilloScreenwriter: Dan MazeauStarring: Millie Bobby Brown, Ray Winstone, Nick Robinson, Brooke Carter, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Bassett, Robin Wright For as long as storytelling has existed, damsels have been in distress. The trope can be traced back to ancient history and has continued to evolve and endure well into the modern era,
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Dune: Part Two (2024)Director: Denis VilleneuveScreenwriters: Denis Villeneuve, Jon SpaihtsStarring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Souheila Yacoub, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Javier Bardem In Dune: Part Two, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother, Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), are taken in by the Fremen,
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In 2023, the work of some of the world’s greatest filmmakers has come to define what many consider to be cinema’s best year of the 2020s so far, with tentpole studio releases earning critical acclaim in greater numbers than in any other year for more than a decade and smaller films earning increased box office
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