Netflix’s Mixtape is a surprisingly wholesome tween movie. Set in 1999, 12-year-old Beverly Moody (Gemma Brooke Allen) lives with her grandmother Gail (Modern Family’s Julie Bowen) since her young parents died in a car crash when she was only two.…
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The trouble with nostalgia is that it fails to plug change into the equation. Our memories stay perfectly preserved – often closer to how we choose to hold onto them than how we actually experienced them – like old photos…
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Bill Watterson’s Dave Made a Maze is a film that leaves you grasping for points of comparison. How to describe it? A Murakami Merrie Melody? A Jim Henson film written by Philip K. Dick? Jorge Luis Borges presents Pee-wee’s Playhouse?…