Entertainment

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the level of human creativity. Autopilot no longer works and we continually have to find new ways to do old things. Take bridal showers, for example. Here you’ll learn how to plan and execute a memorable event during a pandemic. This is a hybrid model, both socially distanced for the…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Independent films can often bring an audience much closer to their characters than big-budget films produced by major studios. This is especially true of…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. It’s fun to binge-watch when there’s not much else to do, and sometimes, rather than just being the passive recipients of entertainment, we’d like…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Family movie night can be a challenge these days. When we just want a laugh, appropriate for multiple generations, we often end up with…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Isabelle Huppert made her movie debut in 1971 and has not slowed down since. I first saw Huppert in Home (2008), where she plays…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Although we’re talking about five award-winning films based on classic novels, most of these films were produced before anyone knew the books would become…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Romance movies. Formulas, right? Boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again. The end. Of course, it doesn’t have to be only…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Sometimes a film receives enthusiastic reviews from the critics—and visceral condemnation from the general public. Writer/director Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019) finds itself in…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down. Timothée Chalamet is an actor who seems unaware that he is being filmed and playing a character, resulting in believable portrayals. Many people first became aware of Chalamet’s talent in 2017 when…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down. To sew up the Academy Award winners of the 2010s, let’s use a patchwork quilt as a symbol for them. In the previous decades, it was possible to tie the awardees with…