Bojack Horseman and Princess Caroline with her adopted hedgehog child.
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Since medieval times, animals have been used by storytellers to teach humans about themselves.
Netflix’s new show fails to critically explore the alternative therapies it promotes.
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Alternative therapies have a lot to offer consumers. The Goop Lab only serves to set back the wellness cause.
Thanks to algorithms, outrage often snowballs.
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Algorithmic forces fuel cancel culture. Paradoxically, they’re also used to rehabilitate those who have been canceled.
Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite is only the 12th ‘foreign’ language film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
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In his Golden Globes acceptance speech, Parasite director Bong Joon-ho teased audiences about their unwillingness to watch subtitled films, highlighting the anglo-centric culture of film
The Goop Lab launches Jan. 24, 2020: it will likely be full of magical thinking and unproven health stories — making it a huge conflict of interest for Gwyneth Paltrow.
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Netflix series, The Goop Lab, raises serious questions about the spread of health misinformation as well as the conflict of interest the show represents.
John Halbach (Ian) , Kit Williamson (Hal), Van Hansis (Thom) and Stephen Guarino (Qunicy) of EastSiders at the 2018 Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Pasadena, Calif., April 27, 2018.
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‘EastSiders’ avoids the political histories and conflicts that haunt LGBTQ+ worlds — but homophobia and HIV/AIDS have not been eradicated.
Bloody and unbowed: Claes Bang as Dracula.
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The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Anthony Hopkins (left) as Benedict and Jonathan Pryce as Francis in The Two Popes (2019).
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The new Netflix film Two Popes focuses on the different outlooks of Popes Benedict and Francis.
Centuries after Dante, it’s surprising to find the afterlife back, and winning awards as a successful series.
Here, from left to right, actors Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, and Ted Danson.
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For all its fart jokes and sight gags, ‘The Good Place’ belongs to a venerable philosophical and theological tradition.
The Disney brand, a major asset to establish itself among the players in audiovisual streaming.
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Netflix’s competitors are multiplying, and they’re ambitious. After Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and a dozen others, Disney+ has lauched, and Netflix is clearly in the crossehairs.
Apple TV Plus has focused on recruiting big names for its shows.
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Although some have dubbed the flurry of new video services coming out as a ‘streaming war,’ the reality is very different.
When a filmmaker as big as Scorsese needs Netflix for funding, what does it mean for the little guys?
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With big theatre chains refusing to show Martin Scorsese’s new big budget mob movie, the future of cinema is looking a little dimmer.
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Giants like Disney and NBCUniversal have been locked in the horns of a business problem known as the innovator’s dilemma.
Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth catches adeptly a sovereign who has become a little tired and distracted behind the eyes.
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A first look at the new series of The Crown finds a changing of the guard, with a fresh cast. Increasingly, in this series, the public hold Elizabeth and the royal family more accountable.
BBC HQ at Portland Place. What will UK’s public broadcaster look like in five years?
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Nicky Morgan recently hinted at changes to the BBC’s funding model. But can the UK’s public broadcaster compete with the likes of Netflix?
Takehiro Hira as Kenzo Mori in Giri/Haji, a BBC co-production with Netflix.
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An increasing amount of the BBC’s content comes via collaborations with international production houses.
Adnan Syed.
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Sky’s true crime channel is feeding a ‘desktop detective’ culture.
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Movie studios are launching their own streaming apps but record labels aren’t about to do the same.
Pictured from left to right are ‘Friends’ cast members Matt LeBlanc, Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer.
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Since ‘Friends’ premiered 25 years ago, both the television industry and the sitcom genre have undergone huge transformations.
The feature ‘Once Were Brothers’ is the first time a Canadian documentary opens TIFF. The film follows Robbie Robertson from his early life in Toronto and on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve to the creation of legendary roots-rock group The Band.
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Even though a Crave produced film has become the first ever Canadian documentary to open TIFF, video streaming services like Netflix raises challenges for filmmakers looking for domestic audiences.