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FILM

‘Summer of Soul’ Captures a Heavy Yet Magical Moment In Time

The performances are pure fire, but the film also serves as a reflection of the social struggles of the time. Focused editing elevates it beyond concert film and creates a new kind of cultural commentary.

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ENTERTAINMENT

How Makeup, Murder and Dark History Turned Bailey Sarian into a Social Media Superstar

With 5 million subscribers on YouTube and 2.4 million Instagram followers, Sarian has melded two seemingly unlikely types of content – beauty tutorials and true crime tales

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PRIDE

GALLERY: Magnus Hastings Envisions Pride Out Of – And In – The Box

Turning a social media idea into the 'Rainbow Revolution' book – shooting almost 1,000 subjects across multiple cities – was "exhausting"

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PRIDE

Celebrate Pride 2021 with Magnus Hastings’ ‘Rainbow Revolution’

Hastings says the main thrust of the project was “no re-touching.” He wanted his subjects to tell their stories and create everything in real life.

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FILM

Bella Thorne’s Badass Approach to Acting and Life is Paying Off

"These are two genres that pretty much make up everything in my life. Rap and rock are both methods of preaching.”

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FILM

Michelle Visage on how ‘Explant’ Surgery Led to Her Revealing New Doc

“As a layperson who reads far too much medical literature, it just made sense that my body had an invader 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

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TV

New PBS Special Looks Back on Career of Brazilian Legend Sergio Mendes (Q&A)

"I think it comes down to the song at the end of the day. The power of the song, and the melody."

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FILM

‘Cruella’ Is A Devilish, Fashion-Filled Delight

The writers clearly strove to humanize what’s essentially been one of the craziest Disney villains in history

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FILM

Dark ‘Spiral: Saw’ Director Darren Lynn Bousman Has Made a Career Out of Immersive Terror

Chris Rock understood the need for a director who knew the nuances – and lack thereof – of the early films

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ENTERTAINMENT

Beyond The Lip Sync: Everything Must Be Alaska

The focus on this kind of spectacle featuring all gender identities and anatomies was clearly an idea whose time had come

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