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  Despite being produced by the Duffer Brothers and looking like a retirement home version of Stranger Things, The Boroughs are so much more than that. Personally, I was not a big fan of their latest outing, Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen, so I didn't bother finishing it. I was having high hopes for this, as it seemed to be leaning into a weird but Spielbergian style of sci-fi thriller with a couple involved in 'saving the world'.  I was right, that was exactly what The Boroughs were. It centers on Alfred Molina's Sam Cooper, who is recently widowed, and is thrust into this retirement/old folks home neighborhood, and he meets a bunch of his neighbors that he is abrasive with at first, until they all part of a conspiracy that specifically happened in Sam's house with the previous owners that sparks a thrilling mystery that everyone is playing off as dementia spells.  This leans into the wonder and fantasy of it all in the sci-fi genre. So, consider all the ins...

  It has been 7 years since a Star Wars movie graced the silver screen, with Lucasfilm going through significant turmoil within Disney to create the next theatrical release that would bring fans back to support the franchise that had seemingly turned against it after The Rise of Skywalker, and, to some degree, rightfully so. Since then, Lucasfilm has been relying on Disney+ for its content output, and their most successful of the bunch is The Mandalorian, centered on Din Djarin, a bounty hunter who comes across a baby Jedi, Grogu, and they go on adventures together.  It seems almost odd that after what Disney+ has been doing with the Marvel franchise, Disney decided to have their first Star Wars in nearly a decade to be a continuation of a hit Disney+ show, relying on the fact that everyone had seen The Mandalorian TV show, despite Grogu toys being as profitable as Stitch at this point. All of us have been on the edge of our seats, wondering if this can turn Star Wars fans' fa...

2 decades later, The Devil Wears Prada has a cult following, not only for its campy aspects but also for its specific take on motivation in the workplace, how one is perceived when their life is consumed by work, and the consequences that bring to their personal life. There have been many ways in which people who have seen the 2006 film have been inspired by a work ethic, because it made such an impact on the professional zeitgeist. It was not surprising when they announced they were developing a sequel outside the confines of the novel it was originally based on, and, of course, leaning into the nostalgia bait. The sequel not only needed to live up to the predecessor but also make an impact; it needed a reason to exist, especially when many other sequels to franchises that started 10 to 20 years ago barely spark a conversation worth having.  What I can say is that The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a message, a specific one that involves saving the art form, from this movie's c...