For years, Korean dramas have successfully traversed borders to capture the hearts of international audiences. And there’s much more Korean television in store—in part thanks to Netflix’s public commitment to spend $2.5 billion on South Korean film and TV production in the next four years.
That investment is proportional to the demand: Netflix original The Glory, whic…
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When Tina Turner died on Wednesday after a half-century career full of legendary anthems, many remembered her as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” But the chart-topping hit for which she will perhaps be most remembered isn’t a rock song—and that fact almost got in the way of the song ever being released.
“What’s Love Got to Do With It,” wh…
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The most poignant moments of Netflix’s OxyContin docudrama Painkiller come at the very beginning of each episode. Instead of getting the standard disclaimer out of the way with onscreen text clarifying that some aspects of the show have been fictionalized, the creators recruited parents who lost children to opioids to read it. Then they tell their stories, of young adults cut down in…
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December heralds the annual arrival of cheesy holiday movies to Netflix (though there aren’t too many this year), as well as plenty of stories to get you through that slow last week of the year. On Dec. 1, May December arrives, a gripping awards vehicle for stars Charles Melton, Natalie Portman, and Julianne Moore. In Leave the World Behind, on Dec. 8, a family’s luxe geta…
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Few events bring together artists, activists, athletes and government officials to mingle and share ideas. That set the TIME100 Next Gala 2022 apart as it unfolded in New York City on Tuesday night. Actor Megan Fox, ob-gyn and abortion rights advocate Caitlin Bernard, comedian Joel Kim Booster, soccer star Trinity Rodman, author Casey McQuiston, and environmentalist Leah Thomas were among the m…
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The nominees for the 95th Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday morning, with the Daniels’ (the filmmaking duo made up of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) exuberant, absurdist sci-fi dramedy Everything Everywhere All At Once leading this award season’s crop of films with a whopping 11 nominations. Following close behind with nine nominations each were Martin McDonagh&rsqu…
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Some of the most iconic moments in pop music history have taken place at MTV’s Video Music Awards—from Britney and Madonna’s memorable kiss (2003) to Kanye West stealing Taylor Swift’s limelight (2009).
While the 2022 Video Music Awards—which took place Sunday at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey — didn’t quite live up to that billing, t…
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When Jennette McCurdy lost her mother to breast cancer in 2013, she went to therapy: “Really, really intense therapy,” she says. It’s not hard to understand why: From the actor’s earliest memories, her mother, Debra McCurdy, had been abusive, pushing her into a demoralizing career in the entertainment industry and encouraging her anorexia, among myriad other forms of tra…
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After laughing and crying through 57 episodes of the British hit reality show Love Island UK, we’ve made it to the end: On Monday, islanders Jess Harding and Sammy Root were announced the winners of the show’s 10th season, taking home a £50,000 prize.
“What is going on?,” said Root, 22, on the finale right after his win, seeming just as shocked as the public for his win.…
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In Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film Poor Things, Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a curious Victorian creature with an unorthodox past. Though she appears as a full-grown adult, Bella is a child-woman, the product of an experiment in which her creator and father figure, Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe)—”God” for short—took her corpse and reanimated it, replacing her brain with that of t…
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