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It’s hard to make a sequel in the best of circumstances, and when we’re talking about a “legacy” sequel made decades later, it’s especially challenging.  All sequels have to find a way to walk the line between recapturing what we loved about the original film and being diff

Nobody Wants This tells the story of the burgeoning relationship between a rabbi and a non-Jewish woman.  The show stars Kristen Bell as Joanne, a smart, funny, independent young woman who co-hosts a podcast all about sex and dating.  She is very much not Jewish.  The show co-stars

I did not originally think I’d have any interest in a film about a bunch of old men in a room choosing the next Pope.  But Conclave, written by Peter Straughan (based on the novel by Robert Harris), directed by Edward Berger, and starring Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow, Stanley Tu

Wicked is, as you all probably know, the first of a two-part film adaptation of the broadway musical.  (The film was written by Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox and directed by John M. Chu.  It’s based on the musical Wicked, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by