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Review: Royalty, Sensationalism and Journalism in ‘Scoop’

The British royal family hasn’t had an easy time over the past decade with the explosion in popularity of the Netflix series The Crown. Audiences eagerly watch and digest episodes, often taking its content as historical gospel rather than an occasionally (if not often) fictionalized version of the truth which, at the very least, imagines…

Scoop | Official Trailer | Netflix : Starring Gillian Anderson, Rufus Sewell

Netflix has dropped a new trailer for the investigative journalism drama Scoop starring The X-Files Gillian Anderson. The feature goes into the story of how The BBC’s Newsnight program obtained November 2019’s bombshell interview with Prince Andrew which went into his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s the longline of the film, The…

Catherine Called Birdy : Q&A with Writer/Director Lena Dunham 

1290. In the Medieval English village of Stonebridge, Lady Catherine (known as Birdy) is the youngest child of Lord Rollo and the Lady Aislinn. Her playground is Stonebridge Manor, a house that, like the family, has seen better days. Financially destitute and utterly greedy, Rollo sees his daughter as his path out of financial ruin…

Film Review – ‘Catherine Called Birdy’ is a Spirited and Fun Look at a 13th-Century Story from Lena Dunham

The late 13th century isn’t a time known for individualism and free-thinking personalities, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. Whether or not they did live then, it’s a creative way to look back at a long-gone era with far too many aspects reminiscent in today’s patriarchal society. The 1994 novel Catherine Called Birdy by…