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Pushing Daisies, Bryan Fuller creates a whimsical and vivid world where there’s murder, but also lots of pie. The ever so delightful Lee Pace stars as Ned, the pie maker with the uncanny ability to bring dead things back to life with the touch of a finger, with just a few caveats. After bringing his childhood sweetheart Charlotte “Chuck” Charles back to life, the two help local private investigator Emerson Cod. Though the two-bite series centers around Ned’s help with murder investigations, it’s brimming with optimism, reinforced by Jim Dale’s fairytale-like narration. With an ensemble cast made up of Kristin Chenoweth, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, and Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz as Chuck’s agoraphobic aunts, the only truly sad thing about
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Social media is ephemeral and everlasting. A beginning and an end. Constellations and a black hole. It is where we escape to find inspiration and meaning and actuality, but can just as soon drown in a tide of manipulation. To create an account is to shake hands with the devil. An accordance of sorts; entering uncharted territory, where boundaries bend and curve and disappear entirely. Where values fly to the wind. Some catching hold of genius, others dissolved into nothing.
Gia Coppola gets the allure. Her new film,
Mainstream, is about the great storm that is social media fame. And how creative pursuits malign once they enter that bargain. The movie stars Maya Hawke as Frankie, a wannabe creator trapped in the amber of modern-day Los Angeles. She wants to make things and say things and know things, but she isn’t sure what. Instead, she spends her days as a bartender at a magic-themed lounge bar, whe