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He’s All That: Influencer Addison Rae Helms a Cast of Familiar Faces

For Gen-X viewers, He’s All That is a story we’ve seen before: Pygmalion or My Fair Lady, but updated with cultural references, settings, and technology that make the story of the lesson behind the plot—that the person you are is more important than the image you put forth—more connected to a modern audience. But digital natives who have grown up with as much with TikTok as with teen movie tropes will have a far richer experience, recognizing the cast not only as actors, but as the same influencers they’re playing.  From director Mark Waters, this update, a gender-bent response to…
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Chinese-Inspired Fantasy Books That Reframe Familiar Fairy Tales

Reframing fairy tales has long been a common subgenre of fantasy fiction and, at the end of 2020, three authors put their own spins on stories (or fairy tale structures) familiar to most Western audiences by incorporating Asian mythology and settings. S. L. Huang combined European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood with the Chinese tale of Hou Yi the Archer to form a story of redemption, love, and family in Burning Roses. Chloe Gong cast tragic English characters Romeo and Juliette as gangsters in 1920s Shanghai—pitting them against a Lovecraftian monster rising from the depths of the Huangpu River…
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Thor: Love and Thunder Set Images Reveal Matt Damon in Familiar Costume

This article contains spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok Another week, another joyous set of behind the scenes images from Taika Waititi’s highly anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe fourquel, Thor: Love and Thunder! Having already seen Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on set in their new costumes last month, filming on Thor 4 continues over in Australia, with Waititi getting more of his Thor: Ragnarok gang back together for another dramatic retelling of Thor’s recent past. Matt Damon, Luke Hemsworth and Sam Neill have all been spotted on the set of Marvel’s Thor: Love and Thunder performing yet another play as…
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