Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A rabbi and a podcaster walk into a party, and Netflix makes a show out of it. Well, sort of. In the new romantic comedy Nobody Wants This, Adam Brody plays the rabbi, Noah, fresh out of a long-term relationship with the …
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When we first meet Pip, the teenage heroine of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, her nose is buried in a copy of Jane Eyre while her friends try to buy booze at the local corner store using a fake ID. These are the activities that seem suitable for someone …
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Walk into the room where Caitlin Cronenberg is sitting, idly checking her phone and chatting with a friend, and you will be greeted by: CHAOS. The 39-year-old filmmaker already cuts an imposing figure, courtesy of a mane of dyed red hair in maximum tousled mode, some impressively art deco nailwork …
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Of course Futurama is back with a new season today, 10 years after the last episode aired. It is a show whose main character spent 1,000 years in cryogenic slumber, and its ensemble has defied death at least as often as the series has. You have to go back nearly …
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