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When director Lulu Wang's beloved grandma "Nai Nai" was diagnosed with stage four cancer, her extended family decided not to tell Nai Nai anything. Instead, they arranged a big wedding banquet back in China, hoping relatives and friends would get to see grandma for the last time.

Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers, has proven to be one of Netflix's biggest hits with its nostalgic nod to 80s sci-fi and horror. With the debut of Season 3, the adolescent cast is growing up in the fictional town of Hawkin, Indiana as they prepare for high school, and despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, the alternate dimension existing in parallel to the human world, danger still lurks.

Centering around the misguided prosecution of five African American boys for a crime they did not commit, the so-called “Central Park Five case” stands as a modern paradigm of racial injustice, even as it evokes a long history of similar events in American history. Created, written and directed by Ava DuVernay, When They See Us is the Netflix miniseries based on the 1989 case, exploring the arrest and trial’s impact on the five prosecuted Harlem teens and their families and questioning the U.

More lies, both big and small, that was the forecast for the Monterey coast as HBO launched the new season of its hit series, Big Little Lies. The show was supposed to be a limited series but the extraordinary audience and critical success (including four Golden Globes) was enough to induce David E.

In the upcoming Amazon Studios comedy Late Night, Emma Thompson plays a first-ever, longest-running female host of a late night talk show, Katherine Newbury. After years of success, with ratings sagging, she was put on notice by the network that she may lose her show.

Welcome to Christmas Land! AMC's upcoming supernatural horror series NOS4A2 will take audiences to a cold and twisted Christmas village ruled by a dangerous man: Charlie Manx.  Based on the novel of the same name by Joe Hill (aka Joseph Hillstrom King, son of Stephen King), the story follows small-town, teenage high school senior Victoria "Vic" McQueen as she discovers that she has a supernatural ability to track Charlie, a man who feeds off the souls of children.

It's been more than two years since Amazon's original series Fleabag folded its first season. Since then the show's lead and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge has become one of the most critically acclaimed writers in the television business.

Immediately after the completion of John Wick: Chapter Two, Lionsgate was eager to start production on a third installment of the successful franchise which had earned a combined $260 million in worldwide grosses. Keanu Reeves, who plays the retired hitman seeking revenge for the killing of his puppy – a present from his late wife - was eager too.

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Marcello Mastroianni and Giancarlo Giannini may be the only two Italian leading men widely known in the U. S.