There has probably never been, and almost assuredly never will be, someone who’s watched Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders’ transcendent 1987 film about an angel who watches over lonely citydwellers and lost souls, yearning to give up the divine in order to be human, and said: “This movie really needed …
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In the opening seconds of HBO‘s adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s bestselling novel The Sympathizer, the pay cable giant’s familiar logo is transformed so that, instead of evoking a television set turning on, it becomes part of a reel of 8mm film. The miniseries, about a North Vietnamese double agent …
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Killing Eve will come to a murderous end with the show’s upcoming fourth season. The trailer for the final installment of the hit TV thriller reveals Sandra Oh‘s Eve and Jodie Comer‘s Villanelle on a potential path of destruction. “This season follows our extraordinary women, each driven by passion, revenge …
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