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Check out the first five minutes of Showtime’s Man Who Fell to Earth

Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as an alien who comes to Earth in hopes of saving the people on his home planet in Showtime’s new series The Man Who Fell to Earth . SXSW attendees this weekend were treated to the world premiere of Showtime’s new sci-fi series, The Man Who Fell to Earth , starring Chiwetel […]

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The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode

The trailer for The Emoji Story. It’s a shame that 2017’s The Emoji Movie exists—though, by all means, get that money, Patrick Stewart (in the role of “Poop”) and Maya Rudolph (“Smiler”). It’s just… that animated cash grab soiled a perfectly good title for a superior emoji treatise that would follow only two years later: […]

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A ship, wrecked: HBO’s The Last Cruise chronicles COVID-19’s infamous cruise ship

The trailer for HBO’s The Last Cruise. Filmmaker Hannah Olson might be the only person to ever have two world premieres at South by Southwest while never having her work shown on a single screen in town. Back in 2020, Olson was ready to bring Baby God, her HBO documentary on the fallout from revelations […]

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Can you make a comedy set during COVID-19? Recovery takes the idea for a drive

The trailer for Recovery, which enjoyed its world premiere at SXSW 2021. The second edition of South by Southwest to take place in the middle of our in-progress pandemic just wrapped. Maybe this should’ve been obvious beforehand—since everyone from Michael Bay to Netflix rolled out shot-in-quarantine films in recent months—but the era of COVID-19 films […]