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The Best Homemade Gifts by and for TV Superfans
Holiday gift shopping is simultaneously fun and frustrating. There’s the joy of finding the perfect gift for someone important in your life, but it’s first accompanied by the panic of searching for...
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10 Incredible, Underrated Film Performances From 2014
As the movie year is drawing to a close and every day begets more Top 10 lists and critics awards, it’s becoming easier and easier to take some fairly educated guesses as to how the Academy Award...
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“All My Favorite Media Is About Teen Girls”: ‘Vivian Apple’ Author Katie...
Vivian Apple at the End of the World is the smart person’s post-apocalyptic YA novel. Its titular heroine remains a delightfully staunch non-believer and non-practitioner even as America, including her...
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10 Must-Read Books For March
March means only one thing: the frozen sea inside the heart of publishing is thawing. We will see books — first a trickle, then a flood. This deluge is so enormous, in fact, that we’ve decided to...
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10 TV Events to Look Out For in March
The good thing about March is that the snow on the ground is finally thawing and the temperatures are rising (slightly). The bad thing about March is that there’s still lousy Smarch weather and the...
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Rob Thomas’‘iZombie’ Is More Than Just ‘Veronica Mars’ With Zombies
Ever since The CW’s launch in 2006, the network has been searching for a well-defined identity to wrap its brand around. It has generally stuck with programming marketed toward teens, especially teen...
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In Defense of Ryan Gosling’s Flawed But Fascinating ‘Lost River’
Hollywood studios are not exactly in the business of taking risks these days. When Warner Brothers handed Ryan Gosling $3 million for distribution rights to his debut film as writer/director, Lost...
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We Don’t Need Another Rapture Show: CW’s Sci-Fi Drama ‘The Messengers’ Fails...
The Messengers arrives on The CW at an unfortunate time: when the network is actually doing well. Had the science-fiction drama premiered two or three years ago, it may have passed as a serviceable...
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10 Best New TV Shows You Can Stream Online
Every year, there are countless new series crowding television, and it’s almost impossible to keep up while they’re all on air. Now that the 2014-15 television season is over, there’s time to catch up...
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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in July
The arthouses are positively bursting in July, which is a relief, since we’re looking at a pretty weak-looking studio slate this month (Pixels? Self/Less? Effing Minions?). In fact, there are so many...
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Spiritual Heirs to Cher Horowitz, Ranked
Clueless turns 20 on July 19, and Flavorwire is celebrating all week with a series of tributes to Amy Heckerling’s era-defining teen film. Click here to follow our coverage. That Clueless ranks among...
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10 Movies and TV Shows Featuring ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Cast Reunions
On Friday, Netflix will debut the entire season of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, a prequel — 14 years later — to the cult hit Wet Hot American Summer. The series is a joyous reunion of...
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Flavorwire’s Complete Guide to Fall 2015 Television
There has been no shortage of programming to watch over the summer, but there is still nothing more exciting to TV fans than when the new television season kicks into high gear. From late-night...
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‘The Flash,’‘iZombie,’‘Jane the Virgin’: No Sophomore Slumps for The CW’s...
Perhaps a harder task than creating a fully formed, confident first season of television is keeping up that momentum into the second. Exciting as it may be, most shows’ debut seasons are full of...
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Wanda Sykes to Shake Things Up at Stevens and Lido on ‘Blackish’
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Wanda Sykes will be heading to ABC for a recurring role on Blackish. This news comes a day after Showtime announced she would be appearing on the upcoming fifth...
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‘Marvel’s Jessica Jones’ Is TV’s Best Comic Book Adaptation, Period
Television reviews can be prone to hyperbolic statements, but let me just get this all out anyway: Marvel’s Jessica Jones is the best Marvel-related television series, it is better than every single...
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‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Breaks Kickstarter Records, Funds Reboot
Nostalgia is in the air thanks to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it’s benefitted the massive built-in fanbase for Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Kickstarter seeking to fund a MST3K reboot has...
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Tessa Thompson in Talks to Join Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez in Alex...
As you might’ve noticed, your friends at Flavorwire are sort of bananas about Alex Garland’s Ex Machina (read all about it here and here and here and here). So we were already keyed up for his next...
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The Clever Caper Comedy ‘Band of Robbers’ Is an Unlikely Model for Twain...
Let’s walk carefully through the plot description and other surface elements of Aaron and Adam Nee’s Band of Robbers, because based on all subsequent assumptions, this movie should be terrible. The...
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25 Stories That Reinvent the ‘Strong Female Character’
I think it’s fair to say I’m a little obsessed with any girl who can handle a broadsword. And not only personally – right now I’m teaching a university class titled Girl Warriors, in which we trace,...
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