films
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Ke Huy Quan Gets Back in the Action Game with With Love
Since Everything Everywhere All at Once came out and cleaned up during awards season, Ke Huy Quan’s been gradually rebuilding his career after taking a 20-year acting break. Having already done supporting roles in Disney+’s Loki and American Born Chinese last year, Quan’s next project will have him front and center as first-time leading man…
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Night Swim Treads Water But Ultimately Sinks
Night Swim is, undoubtedly, a film about a killer pool. If you want to see a movie about a pool trying to kill a whole lot of people, this is the movie for you. Beyond that though, it’s hard to pinpoint what exactly the movie wants to be. It’s not quite scary, but it can…
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Twitter Was 2023’s Best Movie Theatre
Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as Twitter, it’s never really boring. The 17-year-old social media site that we’ve stuck around with always has something going on; in the best cases, it can be either funny or so odd that you can’t help but laugh. Case in point: throughout 2023, Twitter users…
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Wonka’s Surprisingly Sweet Box Office Helped Cure Warner’s Aquaman Blues
We snickered at the concept when we first heard about Wonka, and we scratched our heads once we saw the trailers—especially the parts revealing Hugh Grant’s Ooompa-Loompa character. But one should never doubt the power of chocolate… or a singing, dancing, Timothée Chalamet, because Wonka is a hit. Directed by Paddington and Paddington 2’s Paul…