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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘One More Time’ On Netflix, A Swedish Time Travel Comedy About Getting To Re-Live Your Best Day

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Netflix’s new Swedish film One More Time combines the DNA of Groundhog Day with classic teen movies for a fresh spin on the idea of using time loops to make yourself a better person. When a 40-year-old woman is hit by a bus, she wakes up as her 18-year-old self and is determined to re-do her life to reconnect with her former best friend. The movie is fun and sentimental, and best of all, it’ll remind you that early 2000s pop music is worth a re-listen.

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Opening Shot: Someone pops a mix CD into a CD player. Scrawled across the label, it says “Amelia’s 18th Birthday Party Mix.”

The Gist: The year is 2002 and 18-year-old Amelia (Hedda Stiernstedt) is on top of the world. Popular, stylish (as indicated by her Juicy Couture bedazzled sweatsuits and collection of “going out” tops), and dating a hottie named Max, she’s crushing it in the cool department. The film opens on her 18th birthday where anyone who’s anyone has gathered for her birthday party and they celebrate her. But when we cut to the present day, Amelia, now 40, is a loser. She just got fired from her job in retail, and she has no friends As Amelia wallows in self-pity at a local restaurant, she runs into her old friend Fiona, now a famous singer who also happens to have the same birthday. Once upon a time when they were schoolgirls, Amelia and Fiona were best pals. When they were 13, they buried a time capsule filled with their wishes for the future, but when they entered high school they drifted apart and never dug it up. Now that she’s older and depressed, Amelia searches the hillside where they buried their capsule and unearths it. Amelia’s reads “My wish is to become cool.” Obviously, that wish came true. Before Amelia can read Fiona’s wish, the paper it’s written on blows away. She chases it and is hit by a truck. When she awakens, she’s back in her teenage bedroom, it’s 2002 again, and she goes through that time travel phase of wondering whether this is a dream or she’s really back in an era when “Hot In Herre” was the biggest song on the planet.

Fiona and Amelia have the classic “former best friends until one of them became cool and bitchy” dynamic, and Amelia is the cool bitch, while Fiona struggled in high school as a dark, artsy musician that everyone made fun of, including Amelia. But Amelia doesn’t just get one chance to do things over, she keeps waking up, Groundhog Day -style, on her 18th birthday, and she is able to reset things and change up her choices. Where she was once only obsessed with appearances and her boyfriend Max, she keeps trying to get closer to Fiona to reconnect with the one person who saw her for who she once was. She also tries to improve the lives of everyone around her once she realizes that, in the movies, the way to break a time loop is to become a better person. But it’s not working.

As Amelia works on herself and the days repeat, she tries to reconnect with Fiona, who keeps her at arms’ length. Ultimately, Amelia goes back to the scene of her “death’ – the hill where her time capsule was buried, and she reads the wish Fiona made for herself. “I wish Amelia was in love with me.” Teenage Fiona sees Amelia reading her wish and runs away. Amelia chases her and is hit by a bus. She awakens as a 40 year old again, and races off to find Fiona to say everything she never said to her as a teen.

What Will It Remind You Of? Groundhog Day for sure, as there are references to that movie throughout, but there’s more of a teen vibe here. Amelia tries to right the wrongs of her youth to become a better adult like Jenna Rink did in 13 Going On 30 , but One More Time tries to capture an era, that time when we were at the cusp of the millennium saturated with pop music and flip phones, that’s reminiscent of films like Can’t Hardly Wait and She’s All That , too. (The recent Emma Straub book This Time Tomorrow is also very similar to the plot of One More Time .)

Our Take: One More Time might be the first movie I’ve watched that accurately depicts early 2000s nostalgia. I mean, we’ve only just entered that phase where the early 2000s are nostalgic, but it made me wistful for the time. (Who knew I actually really like the song “ Jerk It Out ” by Caesars Palace?) But the throwbacks to the club bangers and unfortunate clothing of that time aren’t the focal point of the movie, the movie is a funny and heartfelt ode to friendship and finding yourself, thanks to the luxury of hindsight.

Though there are quite a few characters in pop culture who pull an Amelia (Lindsey Weir in Freaks and Geeks comes to mind as your classic friend who abandons her former best friend in order to hang with a new crowd), but Amelia only comes to realize that she was shitty to her friend at 40, now that her own life sucks. It’s fun to watch all the ways that she tries to make amends and apply what she’s learned as an adult to her teen years. Though the ending seems to imply that our leads have found love with one another, the more important thing is that Amelia has finally found herself.

Sex and Skin: Characters have sex offscreen and Amelia streaks through her school at one point, but there’s nothing graphic.

Parting Shot: Amelia and Fiona sit on a bench on the hill where their time capsule was buried. As they reconnect, they make prolonged eye contact that either implies they want to be best friends again, or maybe more, and the helium balloons in the shape of the number “40” that Amelia received for her birthday, float through the sky.

Sleeper Star: Miriam Ingrid, who plays teenage Fiona, looks like a young Helena Bonham Carter, and she plays Fiona in a broody, angsty way rather than as a nerdy archetype, putting a very accurate, very early-2000s spin on the jilted friend role.

Most Pilot-y Line: “That sounds crazy. A bit like the plot of Groundhog Day, ” Fiona tells Amelia when she explains that she’s been stuck in a time loop.

Our Call: STREAM IT! One More Time is pretty formulaic as far as time traveling to become a better person movies go, but it knows that. It makes blatant references to the films that inspired it (Fiona’s mom even runs a video store! They know a lot about this stuff!). Even though the movie is a feel-good comedy through and through, the Scandinavian-ness of it still made me wonder if they’d just end up killing off one of the main characters or something just to have a less predictable ending. I’m happy to report that everyone lives, and happily ever after, at that.

Liz Kocan is a pop culture writer living in Massachusetts. Her biggest claim to fame is the time she won on the game show Chain Reaction .

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One More Time Review – lighthearted and fun throwback to the 2000s

This review of the Netflix film One More Time does not contain spoilers.

When it comes to a time-loop storyline there are films that do it well because they had more information as the film goes on. The protagonist will try and fix their life back then with the knowledge they gained as they grew older. However, once they realize that it was all a rite of passage to make them learn and grow into the person they become, then everything that happened doesn’t matter.

One More Time review and plot summary

The time loop can get exhausting to watch but sometimes it takes a fun cast and a good director to set a different tone to the generic gimmick. In One More Time, Amelia heads back to 2002 and wants to relive how special 18 felt. It was important for her to see what life was like before she got older and lost herself.

It’s interesting to see these characters go back to a time when they thought they had everything and they wished to stay in that little world. As we grow older it’s hard to accept that we can’t ever go back to certain moments and we just have the memories to hold onto. Over years those memories may be skewed but it’s still something.

Is One More Time good or bad?

If you’re a fan of 13 Going On 30 then this film is right up your alley. It is a very cute and wholesome throwback to 2002 and the millennials will appreciate the nostalgia. The important thing with films that handle time loops is that they must recapture the authenticity of the era and One More Time does it so well.

The one choice that is greatly appreciated is that of director Jonatan Etzler cast adults as 18-year-olds which makes the most sense. They are playing teenagers who are having intimate moments so since there wasn’t a tie to their 18-year-old selves, this really worked.

Is One More Time worth watching?

It is a light-hearted comedy that will definitely lift your spirits and make you appreciate the life that you have right now. It’s important to not take the time you have with people for granted and the more Amelia relives the same day over and over again, she begins to preach to others.

Sometimes people do need reminders of how great they are and Amelia misses being wanted by so many people. Her 40-year-old self doesn’t understand how everything could go south for her and she wants to stay in this loop forever.

What really works in this film is that it feels so much like 2002 and the nostalgia is probably the best thing about this. From the fashion to the song choices, everything about it screams the early 2000s. Going back to the fashion of 2002 is probably the funniest thing because of the wild choices people would make. It was a different time entirely and the younger generation that watches this can appreciate how fun and punk it was.

One More Time is a sweet film that will have you rethink your present life and how much has changed from being 18.

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Amanda Guarragi joined Ready Steady Cut as an Entertainment Writer in June 2022. She is a Toronto-based film critic who has covered TIFF, Sundance Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, and HorrorFest International. Amanda is also a growing YouTuber, with her channel Candid Cinema growing in popularity.

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One more time, common sense media reviewers.

Father-daughter dramedy has mature themes, swearing.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this movie.

Blaming others gets you nowhere; let go of resentm

The main characters do move in positive directions

A serial adulterer cheats on his wife. An underwea

"S--t," "f--k," "c--t,&qu

Rolls Royce and Ford Taurus are prominently displa

A character falls off the wagon. A father and his

Positive Messages

Blaming others gets you nowhere; let go of resentment and anger, and take responsibility for your own life.

Positive Role Models

The main characters do move in positive directions over the course of the movie, but they're still not all that admirable. A narcissistic man in his 70s has neglected and emotionally abused his now-adult daughters, cheated on many wives, been in rehab for substance abuse, and generally lived a selfish life. A smart, talented woman is paralyzed by self-sabotage and resentment and prefers to toss out stinging insults rather than live her life effectively. A woman blackmails someone.

Sex, Romance & Nudity

A serial adulterer cheats on his wife. An underwear-clad woman wakes up in a stranger's bed and runs out of his house. Off screen, a woman has an affair with a married man. A woman tries to kiss her ex-boyfriend, who's now her sister's husband. A character's past as a porn star is dredged up. A grandfather gives a Playboy magazine to his 8-year-old grandson.

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"S--t," "f--k," "c--t," "a--hole," "screw," "p---y," "fart," "d--k," "big rack." Adults swear in front of a child.

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Rolls Royce and Ford Taurus are prominently displayed.

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A character falls off the wagon. A father and his adult daughter smoke marijuana together. Cigarettes. Adults drink at home and in a bar.

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Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that One More Time (which is also known as When I Live My Life Over Again ) is a dramedy starring Christopher Walken that addresses mature issues including adultery, substance abuse, neglectful parenting, rampant narcissism, and self-sabotage. Adults smoke marijuana and cigarettes and drink alcohol. There's no nudity, but porn and affairs are referenced, an underwear-clad woman is seen, and pictures of nude women on playing cards are glimpsed from far as a man plays with his 8-year-old grandson. Strong language includes "f--k," "s--t," "c--t," "a--hole," "t--s," and "screw." To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

Jude ( Amber Heard ), a pink-haired, post-punk singer, is enmeshed in self-sabotage: sleeping with strangers, having an affair with her married therapist, and, most poisonously, harboring anger and resentment toward her egomaniacal father, Paul ( Christopher Walken ), a once-famous romantic crooner who's seeking a comeback. The title ONE MORE TIME embodies Paul's desperation to live the high life again and also refers to the Jude's chance to start again after shedding the protective coat that blaming her father has provided all her life. The movie interweaves and contrasts the regrets and yearnings of a man nearing the end of his life and those of a woman really trying to get hers started.

Is It Any Good?

In many ways, this compelling film works, despite seemingly stock characters and predictable worst-case scenarios. After all, it centers on an oblivious, ego maniac showbiz dad who missed his daughters' birthdays and viewed them as extensions of himself to ignore at will, who cheated on all his wives, and who still craves the spotlight and tosses out hurtful and insensitive criticism. But writer-director Robert Edwards uses the clichés to good effect. He builds a case for those who've been wronged to cast aside resentment and anger, accept the damage others may have done to you, and get on with your life anyway.

The writing is intelligent, although the characters often sound too much like each other (witty, sarcastic and jaded), to the point that you can't help imagining they all represent the writer's personality, rather than distinct fictional people. Nevertheless, Walken and Heard remind us with persuasive performances that clichés do occur in real life, and it's some people's misfortune to either be one or to have one for a parent.

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Movie Details

In theaters : April 8, 2016
On DVD or streaming : June 7, 2016
Cast : Christopher Walken , Amber Heard , Oliver Platt
Director : Robert Edwards
Inclusion Information : Female actors, Bisexual actors
Studio : Starz Media
Genre : Drama
Run time : 98 minutes
MPAA rating : NR
Last updated : October 13, 2022

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Movie Review: “One More Time”

The unlikely pairing of Amber Heard and Christopher Walken pays comic dividends in “One More Time,” an agreeably predictable famous father/bitter daughter dramedy.

Walken plays Paul Lombard, an aged crooner, “The King of Romance,” contemplating a comeback as only Christopher Walken can. He’ll open for a more hip band and find a new audience.

“The FLAME-ing Lips,” he says, in Walkenspeak.

Heard is his struggling jingle-singing daughter, over 30 “wasting her talent” and determined not to let the old man or his agent (Oliver Platt) help her get a leg up.

Jude Lippman (Heard) was born “Star Shadow,” so-named by her six-times married dad, whose “makeout music” LPs are a go-to move for any unknowing guy about to bed her.

“It was my luck to be named during his ‘hippy’ period,” she grouses. And, knowing that makes no mathematical sense, “Who has a ‘hippy’ period in the ’80s?”

Paul lives with wife number six (Ann Magnuson). His daughters (Kelli Garner is the younger one) call her “The Wicked Witch of the Upper West Side.” He’s still got the ’80s Rolls-Royce, still lives in The Hamptons.

“The SLUMS of The Hamptons,” he complains. Too far from the beach.

Those slums are where Jude retreats to be with Dad, sixth-wife, bitchy sister and sister’s affable husband (Hamish Linklater), to sort out her life. Because her over-30 punk thing is just the facade. There are other mistakes she’s not owning up to.

Father and daughter duet on “Something Stupid,” but Dad upstages her. Agent Allen (Platt) trots out “Hey, Jude” jokes. Old sores open up, old scores might be settled.

Predictable stuff, written and directed by the fellow who talked Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland into “Land of the Blind” (Robert Edwards).

What pays dividends here is the crooning — Heard is passable alt-rockish, Walken (he sang in “Pennies from Heaven”) has a ring-a-ding-ding delivery that suggests older Bobby Darin or Frank Sinatra Jr. — and Heard playing off Walken’s playfulness.

He wrings a laugh out of Jude’s fascination with the great Nina Simone.

“I used to play PING-pong with Nina!”

Paul shares vintage Playboys with his grandson (Henry Keleman), suggesting he could “tell you stories” about the Playmate on the cover. He watches and re-watches a “Behind the Music” about his career, edits his own Wikipedia entry and trots out a new song, one he wrote himself, that he figures will launch his comeback.

You know, the one that has him opening for “The FLAME-ing Lips.”

It’s a pleasure seeing Walken this light and lively and “One More Time” goes down easier than his pal Al Pacino’s “Danny Collins.” He lands his laughs, shies away from the sentimental.

Heard is mostly a collection of props (cigarettes, piercings, a Nina Simone tattoo) and tics (biting her black fingernails). But she plays off Walken well.

It doesn’t surprise, but that’s kind of what you want from a movie like “One More Time” — old reliables, reliably delivering, with or without the “COW bell.”

MPAA Rating: unrated, pot use, profanity, sexual situations

Cast: Amber Heard, Christopher Walken, Hamish Linklater, Ann Magnuson, Oliver Platt Credits: Written and directed by Robert Edwards. StarzMedia release.

Running time: 1:37

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Netflix's One More Time: Plot, Cast, Release Date, and Everything Else We Know

One More Time is an upcoming Netflix film based on the concept of time travel. Here's everything we know about it.

Here's a thought: what would you do if you could turn back time? Of course, that's a stretch, but how about this: what would you do if you were transported back in time to an age when you were much younger and full of dreams? We all have similar fantasies at some point in our life, and numerous movies have been created around the concept. Movies like Edge of Tomorrow , Deja Vu , and See You Yesterday serve as ideal examples of what might happen if you were trapped in a time loop, as well as what we should do in such situations.

While there have been various time travel movies in recent years, such as Tenet and The Adam Project , Netflix is bringing the glory back, but with a bit more emphasis on life. The upcoming Netflix film One More Time , starring Hedda Stiernstedt of The Restaurant , will take viewers on an exhilarating journey. After seeing the new trailer, many subscribers of Netflix have high hopes for it, and while that remains to be seen, here's everything you need to know about One More Time .

One More Time: The Plot

The official trailer for Netflix's One More Time has been released, and here is our interpretation of the narrative based on it. Amelia, a forty-year-old woman, is having a difficult life with a low-paying job, and to make matters worse, she gets fired on her birthday. While returning home, she thinks how cool it would be to be 18 again, when she could have fun and dream big. Soon after that, a vehicle hits Amelia as she wanders aimlessly on the road, and instead of dying, she wakes up younger, on her 18th birthday.

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Having received her wish, she chooses to create a new future for herself, but she is unaware that these happenings always have consequences. After the day, she wakes up to find herself on the same day over and over again until she can't take it anymore. Will Amelia be able to break free from this time loop? Or will she have to pay the price for wishing for something that shouldn't be possible in the first place?

While we expanded on the story based on the trailer, Netflix defines its synopsis as follows:

When 40-year-old Amelia (Hedda Stiernstedt) is hit by a truck the night of her birthday, she wakes up back in 2002, on her 18th birthday, with the chance to relive her best day and make her life the perfect vision of what she'd intended it to be. But when she realizes that she's stuck in a time loop, destined to relive the same day over and over again, she decides to figure out what she needs to fix in order to literally leave the past behind and return to the present day.

While the premise has been explored countless times in the history of cinema, One More Time stands apart from them as it focuses on the emotional aspect of Amelia's life rather than the Sci-Fi component of the scenario.

One More Time: The Cast & Crew

Apart from the underlying story, the leading actress, Hedda Stiernstedt, who portrays Amelia, is the most remarkable thing about this film. The fact that she seemed to be a forty-year-old woman before the accident and then transformed into a woman of such exquisite beauty thereafter demonstrates the amount of work put into her character. For those who are unfamiliar with Hedda, she is best known for her role as Nina in the Swedish dark drama The Restaurant . She is also widely recognized for her roles in Young Sophie Bell , Black Lake , Pink Cloud Syndrome , and Beforeigners .

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Meanwhile, Vanna Rosenberg and Per Fritzell portray Amelia's mother and father, respectively. While the former is best recognized for High Rise Life - Movie and Kvarteret Skatan , the latter has been featured in various well-known Swedish TV shows such as Svensk Humor , Tornado , and Macken . While these three characters have significant roles, the supporting cast includes Evelyn Mok, Tove Edfeldt, Miriam Ingrid, David Tainton, Lo Kauppi, Maxwell Cunningham, Edvard Olsson, and many more.

Jonathan Etzler, well known for his previous works Beartown , Swimmer , and Get Ready with Me , directs One More Time . Meanwhile, Sofie Forsman and Tove Forsman, who previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed LGBTQ series Young Royals , have written the script, with Mikael Ljung credited with the story idea.

The music for the upcoming film will be composed by Adam Norden, who has worked on The Restaurant , Zozo , Beck , and Shed No Tears . Nea Asphall, recognized for her work on Black Mirror , We Are the Best! , and Midsommar will handle the cinematography. The series is produced by Eleonor Sager, with Viktor Linnell and Mikael Ljung serving as executive producers.

Release Date

The anticipated comedy romantic film One More Time will premiere on Netflix on Apr. 21.

'One More Time' Review: Netflix's Swedish film does nothing extraordinary for time travel genre

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STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: The concept of time travel has been used and reused far too many times at this point, and it might just be time to retire it. 'One More Time' is Netflix’s latest film about friendship, being a mess, and reliving the same day over and over again. You know, the typical high school stuff. 'One More Time' features a talented cast with Hedda Stiernstedt playing the lead role of Amelia. Of late, there have been several movies based on the same concept, most recently, ‘Still Time’, which is also available to stream on Netflix.

The origins of this concept can be dated back to ‘Groundhog Day’ and anything after that has been a recreation of one of the greatest movies of all time. While ‘One More Time’ is a mediocre and entertaining watch, it does nothing extraordinary for the time travel genre. This movie also serves as the directorial debut for Jonatan Etzler, and for that very reason, viewers and critics might cut him some slack!

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What happens in ‘One More Time’?

‘One More Time’ has been produced by Breakable Films and Netflix, and has tried its hardest to give the viewers something more unique with a recycled concept, but did it really succeed? The protagonist of the movie is Amelia, who is clearly going through a mid-life crisis on her 40th birthday and can’t stop wishing that she was 18 again. After trying to retrieve a time capsule buried by herself and her childhood best friend Fiona, Amelia meets with an accident.

Amelia wakes up to her parents singing her happy birthday, and it doesn’t take long for her to realize that something has gone terribly wrong. Now, here’s the kicker. While Amelia takes a few scenes to get over the shock, she soon submerges perfectly into being 18 again, living her best year all over again. She had a great best friend and a boyfriend, and we also see Fiona who is being cast aside by Amelia and everyone else.

Amelia and Fiona share the same birthday, and that’s the day that is repeated over and over again in ‘One More Time’. It takes our protagonist far too many attempts to realize what she was doing wrong, although, if you are watching the movie, you can probably guess it in the first five minutes of the movie. The answer to getting out of this time loop belonged in the time capsule and her friendship with Fiona. Again, predictable, ordinary, and mediocre at best.

Highlights of ‘One More Time’

While the criticism for ‘One More Time’ might seem a little harsh, this movie had a few good things about it that stood out, even though they simply didn’t stand out enough to make it unique compared to other movies of the same genre. ‘One More Time’ doesn’t just use the concept of ‘Groundhog Day’ but also mentions it religiously in this movie. In fact, Fiona and Amelia even watch ‘Groundhog Day’ to try and help Amelia understand why she is stuck in this loop and how she can get out of it. There are other time travel movies also mentioned in ‘One More Time’, so kudos to them for at least owning up to using the recycled concept.

Despite the lack of creativity at certain points, ‘One More Time’ was a colorful movie and easy on the eyes. The importance of friendship, and especially the end of the movie was enjoyable and sweet, and everyone loves a rekindled friendship moment. ‘One More Time’ ends with Amelia getting out of the loop and reuniting with Fiona, something she should have done a long time ago. Although this movie wasn’t our favorite, there is no denying that it was wholesome in its own way!

You can stream ‘One More Time’ on Netflix from April 21, 2023.

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When you start watching "One More Time with Feeling," you are suddenly dropped into the eye of a creative storm that began after the death of Arthur Cave , one of Australian rocker Nick Cave's two sons. This deeply moving concert doc concerns that loss, but only indirectly. We join Cave before the release of Skeleton Tree , his latest album with decades-old band The Bad Seeds. But by the time director Andrew Dominik films Cave (using a 2D camera and an advanced black-and-white 3D camera) and his band in their Brighton recording studio, it seems as if the bulk of Cave and his band's creative decisions have been made. Still, anxiety permeates the studio: how will people receive Skeleton Tree , a characteristically intimate, but highly conceptual album that only addresses personal loss in the abstract?

Dominik (director of " Killing Them Softly ," " The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford ") tries to preserve Cave's uncertainty by presenting Cave's studio recordings as a mix of polished concert footage and off-the-cuff interview footage that reveals Cave's tortured headspace. Cave tells Dominik that Arthur's death has obstructed his creative process by making him feel adrift. Dominik tries to illustrate the "elastic" interminable present moment that Cave is experiencing by conflating time and space during recording sessions.

"One More Time with Feeling" is a uniquely cinematic documentary, one that actively blurs the line between fact and fiction. Sometimes Dominik's 3D camera drifts through solid surfaces, including people, doors and walls. Sometimes it snakes around Cave while 2D videographers film Dominik at work. Once or twice, voiceover narration of Cave's innermost thoughts—recorded after the events filmed—give us a hyper-real window into his thought process. This isn't really a movie about creativity, though it is that, after a fashion. Instead, this is a movie about the pause before the end of a creative obstacle. We join Cave moments just after he's decided to continue struggling without his son. Arthur's death still weighs on him, as it would any parent. But Skeleton Tree is now out in the world, and cannot be contained by Cave's subconscious.

I hesitate to credit Cave's subconscious with having done the heavy-lifting on Skeleton Tree since he himself seems unsure from where his newest album's songs came. He talks about "Gods" and "accidents," and repeatedly talks about God and his bandmates in the same breath. Like the late Leonard Cohen's music—an acknowledged influence on Cave's style—Cave seeks answers to spiritual questions for which he suspects he already knows the answers. He is his own God because he is, as he tells Dominik when he reads lyrics to as-yet-unreleased songs, different than the universe since he has "consciousness." Cave's art is a struggle to paradoxically honor and resist his consciousness' need to make sense of the world. When Dominik asks why Cave's recent music isn't driven by narratives, the musician responds, "Real life isn't like that." But art can be, Dominik argues, by creating a beautifully unhinged snapshot of Cave just after he experiences a major personal loss and a minor creative epiphany.

Dominik's film owes a great deal to experimental filmmaking techniques that Jean-Luc Godard used in the Rolling Stones not-quite-doc "Sympathy for the Devil" and avant garde musical "A Woman is a Woman." In those films, Godard constantly deconstructs the narratives he employs as a means of provocatively suggesting that language can only fitfully express truly profound meaning/revolutionary thoughts/sublime joy. Dominik's film is similarly about Cave's need to express himself without sounding trite or platitudinous. He does not want to escape from Arthur's death, but he also hesitantly tells Dominik, during incisive interview footage, that he doesn't want to commemorate his son through sentimental truisms, like "he lives in our hearts," a saying he spits out because "[Arthur] doesn't live at all."

Cave adds that he chooses his words very carefully because he doesn't want to be trapped by the brittle images that his words directly conjure. Dominik responds in kind by filming himself struggling—and often succeeding—at giving dimension and shape to Cave's grief. Nothing can give shape or closure to Cave—and that's OK. Watching him continue his ongoing search for existential answers is comfort enough.

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A group of fairytale princesses discover there's a lot more to life than marrying a prince in the jubilant new jukebox musical.

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Oh baby, baby, how were the fairytale princesses of yore supposed to know that something wasn't right about their happily ever afters?

The Grimms Girlies — including Cinderella (Briga Heelan), Snow White (Aisha Jackson), Rapunzel (Gabrielle Beckford), and more — are officially closing the book on their "deeply problematic" storylines once and for all in Once Upon a One More Time , a jubilant jukebox musical opening June 22 at the Marquis Theatre.

The musical, which was authorized by a post-conservatorship Britney Spears and features some of her greatest hits, isn't your run-of-the-mill rendition of the pop princess' life story. Instead, it sets up its wildly whimsical premise straight out of the gate: Each night, a princess is selected to act out her whirlwind romance as a bedtime story for children around the world. However, it's clear that tonight's protagonist, Cinderella, isn't as charmed by glass slippers and glittering gowns as the rest of her companions. After finishing her story, she tentatively asks Prince Charming ( Justin Guarini ) if he ever wants… you know… something more than just pumpkins and proposals?

The idea is nothing short of blasphemy to the Prince's ears — "You're paid to be pretty and I'm paid to be charming ," he tells her, prompting Cinderella to ask, "You're being paid?" — but it's exactly what the Notorious O.F.G (Brooke Dillman), the Original Fairy Godmother, has been longing to hear in the neon-soaked, happy-go-lucky kingdom brought to life by set designer Anna Fleischle.

She bequeaths Cinderella a copy of Betty Friedan's 1963 novel The Feminine Mystique , that opens her eyes to a world beyond never-ending household chores, evil stepmothers, and self-centered princes. After sharing the novel with her Scroll Club pals, Cinderella suddenly finds herself at the forefront of a full-scale royal rebellion against the dastardly Narrator (Adam Godley), who demands that all roles be performed exactly as written, and their frustratingly outdated folk tales.

Book writer Jon Hartmere reimagines the heroines and their stories under a new, Gen Z-inspired lens that is equally as hilarious as it is self-aware. He makes no qualms about pointing out how brutal the fables used to be — with Cinderella's Stepmother (Jennifer Simard) waxing nostalgic about the good ol' days when she would cut off her daughter's toes — and the real-life implications they continue to have on readers, as Cinderella frets that her and her pals have all been peddling a "warped version of the real world" to impressionable children for centuries.

Their self-discovery journey is perfectly soundtracked by Spears' sparkling discography, which transforms the musical into a high-octane concert that will leave theatergoers breathless. While Spears' songs are no stranger to the Broadway stage — several of her hits are incorporated in other shows currently playing across the Great White Way — they take on new life in Once Upon a One More Time with a few lyrical twists that succeed in not only reframing their meanings, but also preventing theatergoers from unconsciously singing along too ("Toxic" will never not be catchy, okay?).

In turn, Hartmere's story beats are all precisely timed to each beat drop, like when Belinda (Amy Hillner Larsen) and Betany (Tess Soltau) command Cinderella to clean the mansion as they sing a hilarious rendition of "Work Bitch," or Charming's side-splitting, absolutely outrageous performance of "3" as he frantically learns how to read so he can impress Scroll Club.

The performances are bolstered by inspiring choreography from Keone and Mari Madrid, who are also working double duty as the musical's directors. The couple — who have choreographed for BTS , Justin Bieber , and So You Think You Can Dance — have crafted a collection of high-energy routines that not only drew audible reactions from the crowd, but whipped them into a frenzy that led to several pauses for applause throughout the evening. As directors, the pair keep its story moving at an equally speedy gait, never pausing for longer than necessary before diving headfirst into the next musical number.

Being able to perform the demanding routines alone and sing Spears' iconic songs is a hefty challenge, but it's one that Once Upon a One More Time 's talented cast more than rises to meet. Guarini is phenomenal as the delightfully smarmy Charming, a role which highlights both his comedic chops and dominating stage presence as he powers through sensational renditions of " Circus " and "Oops! … I Did it Again," the latter of which incorporates Spears' original choreography.

Heelan, in her Broadway debut, maintains Cinderella's starry-eyed innocence and warmth without ever making her feel out of touch, and her celebratory "Brightest Morning Star" duet with Jackson's stellar Snow White is one of the most stunning performances of the evening. Hooray for female friendships getting the love and respect they rightfully deserve!

While its main conflict may resolve itself a bit too easily in the end — not unlike its source material — Once Upon a One More Time is a youthful, exuberant take on beloved tales that's more dazzling and polished than Cinderella's glass slipper. Expect to keep on dancin' long after the musical ends. Grade: B+

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‘One More Time’ (2023) Movie Review: Another teen comedy on Netflix, this time from Sweden

One More Time is a Swedish film directed by Jonatan Etzler and starring Hedda Stiernstedt and Maxwell Cunningham .

From Sweden comes this “teen” comedy in a sort of Back to the Future… Swedish style.

Interesting for its exotic touch. In terms of story and construction, not groundbreaking, but it’s watchable.

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With a “Hollywoodish” starting point, One More Time revisits the teen comedy and the 80s theme we’ve seen so many times before. It does it with the grace of applying a photography of the 80s to reminiscent scenes. It’s funny, yes… but it remains somehow in the picturesque, not working well enough to make it really interesting.

It’s not a comedy to crack up, but a rather “European” comedy that falls somewhere between treating the characters with the respect they deserve and falling into that trivial side more typical of the genre. For a while, it achieves to give entity to the characters, but soon forgets it to fall into the teenager game and the classic rules .

A movie that contributes in terms of industry, a good product of some excellent professionals who, without desire or ambition to make the work of their lives, get down to work to give a sufficient entertainment that, without a higher aim, stays as just another product in the overwhelming grill of the streaming giant.

Nothing to object, it is not to be indignant with these consumer products that have nothing to do with neorealism: they don’t want to rock the boat, they will do well or badly, but they achieve their goal without investing hardly any imagination.

In rating, it would be a C+.

(Unambitious) goal achieved.

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Movie Review: One More Time (2015)

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For the sake of curiosity, the only selling point that angsty indie drama One More Time appears to boast is its depiction of Christopher Walken and Amber Heard of all people as father and daughter. That’s an odd pairing right there and while Walken’s shtick is one of the most famous in the business, he’s not usually cashing his checks for playing the dad of some sputtering starlet. Putting the two of them together could pique someone’s interest in this movie that otherwise sounds like it’s been cobbled together from a couple decades’ worth of familiar indie movie pieces, but upon closer inspection, the picture is . . . actually pretty good.

Sure, it is indeed treading territory that is so quintessentially American indie that writer/director Robert Edwards could just as easily steer the story into parody, but the movie is surprisingly sharper and sweeter than the premise and cast would suggest. Well, bittersweeter at least. The familiar narrative pieces here include a washed-up artist, a wayward youth seeking direction, and a whole lot of family dysfunction.

What makes this particular employment of these elements work is mainly the acting, though Edwards’ script helps because it’s ultimately more honest than calculated. Edwards does a fine job of extending plot threads beyond the scope of his picture as well, so there’s a sense that the character arcs aren’t neatly wrapped up and these people still have a long way to go to find that elusive thing that will make them happy.

It’s an admirable, if unremarkable look at how families stick together and stand by each other even when there are more than enough reasons to let go and walk away. It’s also about the challenges of finding your place in the world as you grow up and leave behind that period when a certain recklessness seems justified. Jude (Heard, “ Machete Kills ”) has plenty of reasons to be angry at her dad Paul (Walken, “ Eddie the Eagle ”) and yet the movie keeps reiterating that while Jude’s emotional problems have an obvious source, she still needs to get on with her life and stop blaming her father for everything.

This leads the story down a thornier path than one might expect from a movie of such seemingly simplistic makeup. Edwards makes no bones about how badly Paul has messed up his family, but he doesn’t ask us to hate Paul as a result. We’re supposed to feel sorry for both Jude and Paul, while understanding that the silver lining exists only for Jude, who still has time to turn it around and forge a new path. Paul can’t change, refuses to change, won’t change, but it’s not too late for Jude. And Paul knows this, which makes him a more sympathetic character than the stock villain he could have been.

The main theme that Edwards wants to attend to here seems to the importance of growing up. It’s hard, but it has to be done. Paul hasn’t really grown up despite his age and it’s ruined him. Jude’s sister Corinne (Kelli Garner, “Horns”) doesn’t have much of an arc to mull over, but her chilly, constrained self factors into the story as a counterpoint to Jude’s messy emotions. Corinne has an adolescent son who mostly comes off as unlikable and anti-social, amounting to a rather unoriginal addition to the movie. But even he suits the theme because while he has next to nothing do in the movie, his dour attitude isn’t used as some lame attempt at comedy, instead just reminding us that growing up is tough at all ages.

Some of One More Time is quite contrived, so it’s hardly going to inspire a greatly glowing recommendation, but it is nicely shot, well acted, and relatively insightful about its subject. This is mostly Jude’s movie and Heard carries it well, bringing a looseness to the role that reaches comfortably for naturalism. Walken’s trademark charm gets a decent workout here and seeing him play an aging crooner who edits his Wikipedia profile to puff up his ego is fun, making room for some particularly “Walken-y” moments.

It’s not the most memorable look at angsty family relations, nor the most moving, but One More Time is much better than it could be, trading expected sentimentalism for a tender acknowledgement of life’s complexities. Much of it has been seen and done before, of course, so it’s nice that Edwards wisely leans on his cast to keep the drama from growing stale. While Walken and Heard as father and daughter sounds like it’ll be worth nothing more than a derisive laugh, they actually achieve something more noteworthy than unintentional comedy. Certainly nothing as touching as a tear, but a fond smile seems fair.

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April 6, 2016 @ 7:17 pm GirlhoundOne

Christopher Walken looks so tired in your lead picture.

February 2, 2017 @ 8:01 am Oliver

Good review.I watched this short film and the story touched my heart. Please make a movie out of this story. All the characters were great and fit this story perfect. Thanks to the writer and director for filming this story.

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Netflix: Forty-year-old Amelia wishes to be 18 again, and soon regrets it after she keeps reliving her eighteenth birthday.

Release date April 21, 2023

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One More Time is a neither romantic nor comedic Swedish rom-com directed by Jonatan Etzler and starring Hedda Stiernstedt as Amelia. Amelia is deep in midlife crisis mode, getting fired from her dead-end job on her fortieth birthday. She is full of regrets on how she has wasted her life and profoundly wishes she was eighteen again so she can relive her glory days and make different life choices going forward. Accidentally running into her childhood best friend, Fiona (played as an adult by Tove Edfeldt and as a teen by Miriam Ingrid), doesn’t help matters. Fiona is now a famous and successful singer which only amplifies Amelia’s feelings of personal failure.

She gets snapped out of her funk in a very dramatic way when she is hit by a truck and knocked unconscious in an accident that would surely have killed anyone else. Amelia wakes up in her childhood bedroom with her loving and charming parents (Per Fritzell and Vanna Rosenberg) singing the Swedish version of “Happy Birthday” and putting a paper crown on her head. She goes through her day in a state of very mixed emotions, chiefly disbelief, culminating what she had always remembered as her epic eighteenth birthday party. The party consists of teens drinking heavily, throwing up, dancing, laughing, making out, and being mean to each other.

Almost all of the teens in One More Time are selfish, rude, superficial, and mean, including Amelia—at first. As she goes through the many variations of her eighteenth birthday, she does learn and grow and become a better person. And she does break out of the loop, but I’ll let you find out how for yourself.

I didn’t find this movie particularly funny or romantic, despite its categorization as “romantic comedy”. For me, the best thing about One More Time is its theme of friendship enduring despite years lost and despite human weakness.

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Violence: A person is hit by a car and nearly killed. Sexual Content: Teenagers frequently make out, with some detail. Profanity: There are frequent uses of moderate profanities and terms of deity. Alcohol / Drug Use: There are repeated scenes of teenagers drinking to excess and throwing up.

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From the moment the film was announced a year ago, “ Abigail ” has been marketed as a remake of “Dracula’s Daughter,” the 1936 Universal Pictures curio. So it’s no spoiler to say that the title character of “Abigail” is…Dracula’s daughter. Yet if you went in not knowing that, it might be the only real surprise in the movie, apart from what a brutally monotonous blood-vomiting genre mashup it is.

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“Dracula’s Daughter,” made to cash in on the original “Dracula’s” success (though it had none of the same actors), was a rather stodgy London-fog monster movie starring Gloria Holden, who plays the title character like Greta Garbo as an aristocratic mesmerist. Yet the film has a cult dimension; there’s a scene with Holden and the woman she fastens on to model for a painting that has homoerotic overtones (at least, for 1936). I hadn’t seen the movie in decades, but it reminded me of something I’ve always liked about studio-system horror films — that there’s a dramatic lightness to them, even when they’re all about the darkness. Whereas “Abigail” is so heavy and excessive that if Sam Peckinpah saw it he might say, “Jesus! Tone it down.”

As played by Dan Stevens, who italicizes everything, Frank, the leader of the gang (though even he’s just a thug for hire), is the most tedious. He’s an embattled yuppie nerd, testy and rancorous, and he never stops yelling. The other characters yell back. I make a point of this because there’s so much oppositional energy in “Abigail” that it tamps down our impulse to identify with anyone. Sammy (Kathryn Newton) the Catholic punk, Peter (Kevin Durand) the sullen hulk who’s like Elon Musk played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Frank the dick — these are characters who seem programmed to annoy us. Angus Cloud, in his final performance, plays Dean, who is blitzed but mellow, a real Cloud combination — you feel the presence that was lost. And Melissa Barrera, from “In the Heights” and the last two “Scream” films, grows more forceful as the movie goes on. She plays Joey, a druggie who is given a maudlin and ineffective backstory (about the son she abandoned), but she’s the one actor on hand who seems to understand the value of toning down the noise.

“Abigail” was directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who made those last two “Scream” films, and though I was impressed, to a degree, by what they brought off there, this movie feels like a step backward into overwrought generic schlock. Why does a vampire movie need to be so relentlessly physical, with whacked limbs and decapitations and bodies slammed into walls? Dracula, among other things, is the most metaphorical character in horror-film history, and I guess his daughter could be too, but not in a film that turns bloodsucking into a form of professional wrestling.

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Crew: Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett. Screenplay: Stephen Shields, Guy Busick. Camera: Aaron Morton. Editor: Michael P. Shawver. Music: Brian Tyler.
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The True Story Behind the Surprise Netflix Hit Baby Reindeer

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Netflix series Baby Reindeer .

In his one-man play-turned-hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer , Scottish comedian Richard Gadd recounts the harrowing true story of how his experience with being stalked forced him to confront a buried trauma.

Playing a fictionalized version of himself named Donny Dunn, Gadd unpacks the years-long stalking and harassment campaign he endured at the hands of a middle-aged woman he refers to by the pseudonym Martha (played with a chilling intensity by Jessica Gunning) while struggling to make it as a stand-up and writer in London. As is depicted in the show, the stalking began in the wake of Gadd being groomed, repeatedly sexually assaulted, and raped by an older male TV industry mentor (named Darrien in the show and played by Tom Goodman-Hill)—an ordeal that left him reeling emotionally, questioning his sexuality, and wrestling with extreme self-loathing. Still, Gadd doesn't shy away from his own complicity in what transpired with Martha, frequently painting himself in a negative light as the story unfolds over the course of seven episodes.

“It would be unfair to say she was an awful person and I was a victim. That didn’t feel true,” he told The Guardian in 2019 following the sold-out inaugural run of the Baby Reindeer play. "I did loads of things wrong and made the situation worse. I wasn’t a perfect person [back then], so there’s no point saying I was."

When Gadd debuted his one-man show at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, it had been two years since he had seen or heard from Martha. Three years earlier, while the stalking was still in full swing, he had won the festival's top prize for his comedy show Monkey See, Monkey Do , which explored his experience as a survivor of sexual violence. The Baby Reindeer Netflix series, which is currently at number two on the streamer's most-watched charts following its release last week, is an amalgam of the two stage shows.

"It felt like a risky thing—to do a 'warts and all' version of the story where I held my hands up to the mistakes I had made with Martha," Gadd wrote in a piece that accompanied the show's debut . "The foolish flirting. The cowardly excuses as to why we could not be together. Not to mention the themes of internalized prejudice and sexual shame that underpinned it all. The graphic details of the drugging and grooming and sexual violence I had experienced only a few years before...But equally I could not shy away from the truth of what had happened to me. This was a messy, complicated situation. But one that needed to be told, regardless."

Here's what to know about the true story behind Baby Reindeer .

What happened with Martha?

Jessica Gunning as Martha in Baby Reindeer

Similar to how the show begins, Gadd has said that the stalking started after he gave Martha a free cup of tea when she came into the London pub where he was working in 2015. “At first everyone at the pub thought it was funny that I had an admirer,” he told The Times . "Then she started to invade my life, following me, turning up at my gigs, waiting outside my house, sending thousands of voicemails and emails."

Over the next four and a half years, Gadd recounts that Martha sent him 41,071 emails, 350 hours' worth of voicemails, 744 tweets, 46 Facebook messages, 106 pages of letters, and a variety of strange gifts. Every email that appears in the Netflix series is a message that Gaad received in real life. She also harassed a number of people who were close to Gaad, including his parents and a trans woman (named Teri in the show and played by Nava Mau) whom he had begun dating shortly before the stalking began.

When Gadd tried to go to the police, he discovered that the laws surrounding harassment and abuse are, in his own words, "so stupid." Despite the fact that the show presents Martha as having been previously convicted on similar charges, Gadd was told he needed concrete evidence of direct threats for authorities to take any action.

"They look for black and white, good and evil, and that’s not how it works," he told The Independent . "You can really affect someone’s life within the parameters of legality, and that is sort of mad."

How do things stand today?

Richard Gaad as Donny Dunn in Baby Reindeer

In the show, Martha ultimately receives a nine-month prison sentence and five-year restraining order for stalking Donny. In real life, Gaad has never disclosed the details of how the situation was resolved beyond the fact that he had "mixed feelings" about it.

"I can’t emphasize enough how much of a victim she is in all this," he told The Independent . "Stalking and harassment is a form of mental illness. It would have been wrong to paint her as a monster, because she’s unwell, and the system’s failed her."

As for how Gaad's sexual assault has continued to impact his life, the finale culminates in a closing sequence in which Donny shows up at Darrien's home to confront him only to accept an offer to work on his new show instead. A distressed Donny then finds himself at a bar where he is offered a drink on the house in a moment that flips his first interaction with Martha on its head.

"I think that was almost the most truthful scene of the entire show. What abuse does is it creates psychological damage as well as physical damage," Gadd told GQ . "There’s a pattern where a lot of people who have been abused feel like they need their abusers. I don’t think it was a cynical ending, it was showing an element of abuse that hadn’t been seen on television before, which is, unfortunately, the deeply entrenched, negative, psychological effects of attachment you can sometimes have with your abuser."

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Harry potter's tv remake can finally adapt an epic moment fans have waited 24 years for.

Harry Potter’s TV remake has the opportunity to capture an epic moment that fans have been waiting 24 years to see properly adapted on-screen.

HBO's Harry Potter TV show has the opportunity to fix mistakes from the movies, delivering long-awaited epic moments with modern technology.
The Quidditch World Cup in Goblet of Fire was barely shown in the movies, leaving fans disappointed. The TV remake can do it justice.
The TV remake of Harry Potter can properly adapt the Quidditch World Cup, leveraging modern technology and longer runtimes to its advantage.

HBO's Harry Potter TV show has the chance to fix the mistakes of the movies, and this means it can deliver one epic moment fans have waited 24 years to see on-screen . Many book adaptations are getting second chances as TV shows in recent years, and Harry Potter will continue this trend when its HBO series debuts. Although the Harry Potter movies are generally well-liked, there are elements of the original adaptations that could be improved in the upcoming series.

For one, modern technology can improve on the Harry Potter scenes the early 2000s weren't ready for. There are plenty of battle sequences that could look better in a more modern adaptation, and a television runtime allows any big moments to be expanded even further. Likewise, the upcoming Harry Potter remake can cover scenes and storylines that the movies skipped . This includes one epic moment that readers waited 24 years to see but turned out to be underwhelming in the original adaptations.

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The harry potter movies barely showed the quidditch world cup in the goblet of fire, the wizarding world sporting event should have been so much biggeer.

The Quidditch World Cup is a major part of Harry Potter and the Goblet of the Fire , but the movie adaptations simply don't do this event justice. While the films don't skip the Quidditch World Cup completely, they barely show any of the game the characters are there to watch. By contrast, the Goblet of Fire book gives a play-by-play of the match between Ireland and Bulgaria, making it nearly as epic as any real-world sporting event. This gets lost in the movie, which focuses more on the characters' reactions to the game and the aftermath of the Death Eater attack.

With readers looking forward to seeing the Quidditch World Cup on-screen since Goblet of Fire 's 2000 release, it's a shame the movies didn't capture the scope and excitement of the event.

With readers looking forward to seeing the Quidditch World Cup on-screen since Goblet of Fire 's 2000 release, it's a shame the movies didn't capture the scope and excitement of the event . But it was probably inevitable with a movie's limited runtime, along with budgetary and technological constraints. Fortunately, HBO's Harry Potter TV show has the chance to make up for the movies' underwhelming Quidditch World Cup. Its version of the Wizarding World event will probably be even better than the original adaptations'.

Harry Potter's TV Remake Can Finally Adapt The Quidditch World Cup Properly

Modern technology & a tv runtime will help bring it to life.

The Harry Potter reboot can finally adapt the Quidditch World Cup properly, and it has several advantages over the movie in this regard. To start, an HBO budget and more modernized technology will help bring Quidditch to life more impressively across the board. This means a bigger and better Quidditch World Cup, and it also means even better-looking matches while Harry is playing for his Hogwarts team. Although Quidditch doesn't look terrible in the Harry Potter movies, it'll be interesting to see what they can do with the game years later.

The Harry Potter reboot can finally adapt the Quidditch World Cup properly, and it has several advantages over the movie in this regard.

A TV show's runtime will also allow the Harry Potter remake to put a larger focus on the Quidditch World Cup , perhaps even making it its own episode. The event takes up a decent portion of the Goblet of Fire book, but the movie had to balance it with the Triwizard Tournament and other major events. A TV show won't have as much trouble striking this balance, allowing the Quidditch World Cup to be properly adapted. This is exciting news, especially after fans have waited 24 years to see the game in all its glory.

Why Fans Have Been Waiting To See The Quidditch World Cup Adapted

It's an epic sequence that builds on the importance of quidditch in the books.

It's shocking to think that Harry Potter fans have waited so long to see this book moment adapted, but there's good reason the Quidditch World Cup deserves a proper portrayal . For one, it's probably the longest and largest Quidditch game shown throughout the Harry Potter books . Quidditch plays a much bigger role in the source material than it does in the movies, and it's fascinating to see it explored on a professional level. The characters talk about professional Quidditch teams enough to warrant a match, and the excitement surrounding the World Cup is palpable.

That excitement would carry over to an adaptation, giving viewers as much reason to celebrate this event as a massive action sequence. There's no denying Harry Potter season 4 will be a gripping chapter of the HBO series with the Quidditch World Cup, Triwizard Tournament, and Voldemort's return. And it's the frequent excitement that keeps the later Harry Potter books compelling from start to finish. Adapted correctly, they'll help the TV series keep viewers hooked as well.

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Harry Potter is HBO's remake of the iconic Wizarding World film series that consisted of eight films between 2001 and 2011. Each season adapts a book from JK Rowling's popular series and provides more book-accurate details than the movies did. Upon the announcement of the Harry Potter TV show, the series received harsh criticism for the involvement of Rowling and for many thinking a reboot was unnecessary.

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Zendaya finally secures her place as a Hollywood superstar in one of the sexiest films of all time

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Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist as Patrick and Art in Challengers, with Zendaya in the foreground as Tashi Duncan

You’d have to have been hiding under a rock for the past several years to not have an inkling who Zendaya is – but Challengers is the film that finally serves up her star quality to an audience in the most undeniable way.

The latest film from Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino, Challengers examines the tightly interwoven relationship between three young tennis starsacross more than a decade.

Ably supported by The Crown ’s Josh O’Connor and West Side Story Bafta nominee Mike Faist , Zendaya’s mastery of her craft has never been more confident.

A former Disney Channel child star and singer, the 27-year-old has been making waves in Hollywood for a while thanks to her roles in The Greatest Showman, the Spider-Man franchise and the Dune film series .

She’s even scored a double Emmy win for her turn as recovering teen addict Rue Bennett in the headline-grabbing TV series Euphoria .

But it’s now, with Challengers, that it feels like her moment has truly arrived, breaking through from a Gen Z idol into mainstream success.

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Zendaya at Amazon MGM Studios' Challengers photo call in Los Angeles on April 20, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California

As Tashi Duncan, a hotshot in the sport destined for the biggest titles before she’s forced to retire after a career-ending injury, Zendaya gives us a nuanced, adult performance.

We watch her coach her less naturally talented husband Art (Faist) in the near present day, while jumping back 13 years to discover the start of her acquaintance with him and his close friend and doubles partner, Patrick.

Strategising for her husband’s comeback after a losing streak, things take a surprising turn when he must face off against Patrick – who is also Tashi’s former boyfriend – in a challengers match.

Of course Guadagnino has managed to infuse the film’s dialogue and sizzling chemistry with the intensity and rhythm of a game of tennis, as well as keeping the literal volleys, serves and backhands themselves engaging with energetic camerawork, accompanied by a pulse-poundingly stirring soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

Genuinely, it is no shade to anything else in the movie to call its music one of its standout features, alongside Zendaya.

Much has been made of the tease of a threesome between her and co-stars O’Connor and Faist in the trailer, but Challengers might possibly be one of the sexiest films you’ll ever watch without any actual sex scenes. Everything lives in the hornier but (mostly) clothes-on grey area of steamy make-out sessions and grinding.

There’s also an extremely graphic description of how Art and Patrick came to – ahem – know themselves as curious tweenagers. But a lot of the tension is saved, and utitlised, for the tennis court.

Zendaya excels at portraying the complicated temptation that lies between all three of them, gingerly dipping her toe into the boys’ friendship when they both first meet her.

Also – she’s funny. Her timing is exquisite when it comes to making scenes pop off the screen. There’s nothing especially humorous on the screenplay’s page about Tashi’s pauses during her first encounter with the boys, but Zendaya invites viewers into her thought process.

From left: Mike Faist as Art Donaldson, Zendaya as Tashi Duncan and Josh O'Connor as Patrick Zweig in Challengers

It’s also only fair to give the compliment of Challengers’ true love story really lying between Faist’s Art and O’Connor’s Patrick who, while they each boast sizzling chemistry with Zendaya, share a genuine rapport with one another onscreen that has an undercurrent of intriguing tension.

However, you still completely believe they would both be as head over heels as they are for Zendaya’s Tashi thanks to her undeniable charisma.

Among its many aces, Challengers’ only faults include the unconvincing age range its stars are required to play, going from 18 to 31 with only really their haircuts helping to mark the passage of time between jumps to flashbacks.

As well as not changing enough in the intervening years, to a distracting degree, none of them make particularly believable teenagers and Zendaya still reads a little too young to be playing in her thirties.

The film’s ending also feels a little abrupt, although once you reach Challengers’ match point, so to speak, it’s hard to see how it could finish in many other satisfying ways.

The rhythm of the movie is important to its narrative, and fans’ enjoyment, so the choice Guadagnino makes at least serves that.

Challengers’ publicity campaign was always built around Zendaya and her social following, with the studio even dropping out of a prime slot at the Venice Film Festival last September after the US Sag-Aftra actors’ strikes, pushing back the release until she’d be available for promo.

Zendaya will undoubtedly attract those younger fans, persuading them to visit the cinema (how quaint!), and just a fraction of her colossal 185,000,000 followers on Instagram checking out Challengers would make producers weep with joy.

However, older film fans should absolutely seek out the movie too, for a sexy, entertaining watch and the satisfaction of seeing an actress come into her own.

Let’s roll out the red carpet to welcome the arrival of Zendaya’s star.

Challengers is out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 26.

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David Kwong makes magic again.

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By Deb Amlen

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THURSDAY PUZZLE — David Kwong is a magician , and one of the things I like about his puzzles is that his enigmatist’s sensibilities and knack for illusion inform his crossword themes.

In his last puzzle in The New York Times , Mr. Kwong used elements of a common idiom as a cipher to describe other phrases. When I finally understood what was going on, I sat back and gasped like Mr. Kwong had just pulled a rabbit out of his hat. Not that Mr. Kwong would stoop to such a cliché. I’m not even sure he owns a hat.

Today’s puzzle solved like an exercise in misdirection: While I was busy looking at the grid one way, Mr. Kwong was palming a relevant bit of the theme and hiding it in a not-so-obvious place. It’s a lovely example of the kind of prestidigitation I like to see in his crosswords, and I’m happy that he’s back.

Today’s Theme

Asterisks, which are also called stars when they are included in crossword clues, are a fairly common feature in puzzles. They typically indicate that the clue and its answer are part of the theme.

In Mr. Kwong’s puzzle, the stars mean something else, and solvers must read the revealer at 63A in a different way in order to figure it out.

Can you solve this puzzle without doing so? Probably. Should you? In my opinion, no, because then you’ll miss out on all the fun.

The revealer clue is “Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle,” and the answer is A STAR IS BORN. The problem is that, as they are, the theme answers don’t really make much sense in relation to their clues.

For example, at 17A, the answer to the clue “*Allot time” is ELECTION DAY. Granted, we should all allot time to vote, but something about this is not quite right. Back to the revealer.

What if we parsed the movie title from 17A differently, as the clue asked? The only way I can see to make it six words is to write it as A STAR IS “B” OR “N.”

And that, my friends, is the key to the whole theme. We need to swap out those stars for either a B or an N. Using the example above, “*Allot time” would be “Ballot time,” and that makes much more sense as a clue for 17A.

Let’s do a couple more. At 53A, THE CRETAN BULL is clued as “*Ovid of Greek mythology.” Mr. Kwong can’t be talking about Ovid the poet because he was a real person, not a mythological character. But if you place a B where the star is, the clue becomes “Bovid of Greek mythology,” which is a better description of the BULL .

This last one took me a few minutes. At 40A, the clue for RIVIERA is “*Ice is found on it.” Replace the star with an N and the clue reads “Nice is found on it.” (That’s Nice, the city in France, although I’m sure the people on the RIVIERA are perfectly nice.)

Tricky Clues

13A. This measure of inflation does not refer to economics, but to the inflation of a tire: The answer is PSI, or pounds per square inch.

20A. I like the way this clue (“Account that is overdrawn?”) seems to be hinting at a bank account. The account in this puzzle is a SAGA. My guess is that it’s overdrawn because a SAGA is a long and drawn-out story.

5D. Now this is funny. Hands up if you immediately pictured underpants on a person’s head after reading the clue “Bloomers worn around one’s head?” Me too. These “Bloomers” are flowers, and the only three-letter word I can think of that refers to a ring of flowers (“around the head”) is LEI.

24D. I wrote in “rime” and “snow” for “Winter frost” before I realized that the answer was HOAR.

26D. The “Superman portrayer” is Christopher REEVE, not to be mistaken with George Reeves, who played Superman on television from 1952 to 1958.

27D. Mr. Kwong and the puzzle editors must have been absolutely thrilled with this clue, and I don’t blame them. It is so evocative of the kind of person Muhammad ALI was. Just picture them, sitting around a desk with their pencils behind their ears and coming up with this winner: “Athlete with the only vertically mounted marker on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so his holy name is not walked upon.”

34D. Beware the question mark clue; it can never be taken at face value. This means that “Sightsee?” does not refer to visiting places of interest. It means seeing along the sight of a gun, and the answer is AIM.

61D. If you are in the middle of a “Cross fit?” — two words instead of the one word that refers to an exercise program — you may be in a SNIT.

Constructor Notes

Hello Puzzledom! I’m so excited to be back with another Thursday crossword. This one has been years in the making with lots of fun workshopping with the editorial team. First, I can’t help myself and I’d like to tell you about my original vision for this puzzle. The key theme answer A STAR IS “B” OR “N" was originally intended to create two clues with the same number — a Schrödinger gimmick for the clues, instead of for the answer. “*Ear’s opposite” would have yielded two different clues, both “Bear’s opposite” (bull) and “Near’s opposite” (far). I then proposed there be two clues for each entry in the grid. Fun, right? Nope, can’t do that. Apparently the programming can’t handle such wackiness. On to the next idea. Joel Fagliano, the senior puzzle editor, proposed that I rework the puzzle and focus on the most misleading clues that had a B or N missing. Mislead people? Gladly (I’m a magician)! I had two goals as I set out to do this: To create clues with the most “surface sense,” and to mess with pronunciation. I believe I achieved surface sense with all of them — my favorite being “*Ovid of Greek mythology.” I hope that earns equal gasps and groans. Also, I was dealing with a very, very narrow set of words to play with. Unlike in the puzzle’s original conception, I couldn’t have words that worked for both B and N. So as much as I loved the pronunciation change when *Ike became Nike, I couldn’t use it because of Bike. Last, I had one submitted grid that featured the following theme entry. I’m sorry it didn’t make it! “*Ones on TV can be found here”: THE ENTERPRISE. I hope you enjoyed the puzzle!

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Nov 5, 2019 Full Review Adam Mock Film Inquiry A family drama with a clever setup, One More Time, although not a ground-breaking film, is charming throughout. A top-notch cast, strong writing and ...
Once Upon a One More Time review: a charming Britney Spears musical
Once Upon a One More Time review: Justin Guarini and Briga Heelan charm in Britney Spears musical. A group of fairytale princesses discover there's a lot more to life than marrying a prince in the ...
'One More Time' (2023) Movie Review: Another teen comedy on Netflix
One More Time (2023) Movie Review. With a "Hollywoodish" starting point, One More Time revisits the teen comedy and the 80s theme we've seen so many times before. It does it with the grace of applying a photography of the 80s to reminiscent scenes. It's funny, yes… but it remains somehow in the picturesque, not working well enough to ...
Movie Review: One More Time (2015)
'Movie Review: One More Time (2015)' have 2 comments. April 6, 2016 @ 7:17 pm GirlhoundOne. Christopher Walken looks so tired in your lead picture. February 2, 2017 @ 8:01 am Oliver. Good review.I watched this short film and the story touched my heart. Please make a movie out of this story. All the characters were great and fit this story perfect.
One More Time
This is deadpan comedic Walken-ese at its best. Full Review | Nov 5, 2019. A family drama with a clever setup, One More Time, although not a ground-breaking film, is charming throughout. A top ...
One More Time
Aspiring rock star Jude (Amber Heard) is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard (Christopher Walken), an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback. As the two ...
One More Time Movie Review for Parents
One More Time Rating & Content Info . Why is One More Time rated TV-MA? One More Time is rated TV-MA by the MPAA for language . Violence: A person is hit by a car and nearly killed. Sexual Content: Teenagers frequently make out, with some detail. Profanity: There are frequent uses of moderate profanities and terms of deity. Alcohol / Drug Use: There are repeated scenes of teenagers drinking to ...
One More Time Movie Reviews
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One More Time (2015)
One More Time: Directed by Robert Edwards. With Christopher Walken, Amber Heard, Kelli Garner, Hamish Linklater. A New York City crooner plots his comeback.
'Abigail' Review: A Brutally Monotonous Genre Mashup
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Back to Black (2024)
Back to Black: Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. With Marisa Abela, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville. The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time.
Baby Reindeer: True Story Behind Surprise Netflix Hit
April 17, 2024 9:46 AM EDT. Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Netflix series Baby Reindeer. In his one-man play-turned-hit Netflix series Baby Reindeer, Scottish comedian Richard Gadd ...
Harry Potter's TV Remake Can Finally Adapt An Epic Moment Fans Have
HBO's Harry Potter TV show has the chance to fix the mistakes of the movies, and this means it can deliver one epic moment fans have waited 24 years to see on-screen.Many book adaptations are getting second chances as TV shows in recent years, and Harry Potter will continue this trend when its HBO series debuts. Although the Harry Potter movies are generally well-liked, there are elements of ...
Fallout Official Timeline Confirmed: How the Show Fits In With the
Officially the Fallout show is set in the year 2296, which takes place later than any other Fallout game currently released. For example, Fallout 4 takes place in the year 2287, while Fallout: New ...
One More Time
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Challengers review
Challengers Trailer 2. Zendaya has already impressed in Dune, Spider-Man and other films, but this is the one that squarely rests on her shoulders (Picture: Getty) As Tashi Duncan, a hotshot in ...
NYT Crossword Answers for April 18, 2024
The revealer clue is "Thrice-remade movie … or, when parsed as six words, a hint to the theme clues in this puzzle," and the answer is A STAR IS BORN. The problem is that, as they are, the ...