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Streaming platforms have introduced to thousands of hyper-specific categories and genres that shape our tastes.
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Rising household debt in South Korea is crippling many and Squid Game speaks to this very real horror facing many in the country.
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Squid Game is the latest South Korean television show to highlight vast socio-economic inequality and the brutal trap of capitalism.
How did ‘Indian Matchmaking,’ a show that hinges on regressive principles of caste and colourism, not to mention flippant misogyny, land itself an Emmy nomination?
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To witness South Asian representation on a global platform is liberating, but what one is being represented for is of more importance, if not the most.
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The third season of Aziz Ansari’s Master of None explores the complexities of a lesbian relationship. It is like nothing the show has done before.
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A stage musical adaptation is just the newest addition to the cottage industry which is Round The Twist nostalgia.
New Balance shoes are front and center in a scene from ‘Ted Lasso.’
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Global spending on product placements is expected to top $23 billion in 2021, about a 14% increase over the previous year.
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women have started telling their own stories via social media, challenging television’s sometimes one-sided depictions of their lives.
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The #MyOrthodoxLife movement challenges both mainstream and ultra-Orthodox media to tell more nuanced and complex stories about Jewish women.
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Even though The Chair confronts some of the tougher realities of higher education, the world it depicts is still rosier than the reality.
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A new Netflix documentary gives an intimate look into Naomi Osaka finding her voice in the world.
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We fall for people based on appearance, kindness and wealth. It’s not as simple as removing one part of the equation.
Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried in the Netflix film Mank.
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Netflix requires its narrative feature films be shot on approved cameras. This can lead to a flat, depthless look, in contrast to the graininess of celluloid.
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It’s not just the drama that gets people to tune in every night
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Like Joker, this adaptation seeks to humanise a famous villain. But is this revisionism or a new story altogether?
In buying MGM, Amazon is clearly demonstrating its ambition to dethrone Netflix and the race for the top spot in the video-on-demand market has never been tighter.
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In the war to secure exclusive content, the ability to invest in the acquisition or production of original content has become crucial ammunition.
Halston with the Halstonettes – a group of models who were part of his entourage – at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1980.
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The subject of a new Netflix miniseries, Halston once ruled over New York’s fashion world. But the designer with a devil-may-care approach to his business dealings attempted too much, too quickly.
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Fictional screen robots have long represented our fear of technology. A new animated family film combines this trepidation with many parents’ fear of losing offline connection with their kids.
Detail from a poster for the romantic comedy Happiness is a Four-Letter Word.
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The rise of the black romantic comedy in South Africa dovetailed perfectly with the advent of streaming services - creating a box office phenomenon.
The 2013 reward of US$5 million has since been doubled.
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It may be the greatest robbery you’ve never heard of. In 1990 thieves stole US$200 million worth of art from a Boston gallery. A new Netflix series seeks to find the culprits.
An engraving of the sabbath from Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges .
A historian reviews Pablo Agüere’s award-winning Netflix film Akelarre and explains why it is one of the best films around on the early modern witch-hunt.