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The streaming platform uses “taste communities” – “broadly defined groups of subscribers who gravitate toward the same shows … Viewers in the same taste community may live on different continents, but they enjoy the same kinds of TV shows and movies” – to figure out how to drive new programming.

And how did HBO’s Sharper Objects not fall under the sway of the sequel season? Amy Adams wasn’t interested, basically – but the actors on The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies, and of course Game of Thrones certainly have been, and so have their networks.

What? The star died in 2016, but the studio says there’s enough leftover footage from the 2015 film The Force Awakens to include General Leia Organa in the next episode. “We were never going to recast, or use a CG character,” director J.J. Abrams said.

What’s good, Vida? “The show has provided plenty to talk about. There is lots of conflict and (impressive) sex. Plus, it is set in Boyle Heights, the historic Eastside neighborhood that has been the site of highly visible clashes over gentrification. But more significant, Vida is the ultimate Los Angeles show — one in which Hollywood sheds its misperceptions about Los Angeles (that we’re all bikini blondes and palm trees) in favor of portraying a more textured view of the city — in this case, a view that is resolutely Latina.”

True: “Though Hollywood is now seen (sometimes unfavorably) as a liberal bastion, it wasn’t always that way. For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, life in Hollywood up until the early 1990s — and perhaps, in some ways, still today — was a game of smoke and mirrors, hiding parts of themselves in public for fear of losing their jobs, being harassed by the police or worse.” That’s why Scotty Bowers pimped for the queer men and women of Hollywood for years.

Speculation says that showrunner Kenya Barris has jumped ship for warmer waters at Netflix, but that’s unconfirmed. And “Barris will remain an executive producer on all of his ABC Studios shows,” including black-ish spinoff grown-ish.

When television, movies, magazines, and news sites don’t reflect reality, some people turn to Instagram. That includes Afro-Latinx people: “We are purposely recognizing one another in ways we’ve never found in popular media representations and sharing images and stories that redefine the narrow Eurocentric definition of Latinidad.”

“‘My husband’s books, his letters from celebrities, all the texts that authors had dedicated to him’ were destroyed in the fire, Phoebe Angelopoulou told local television. … The filmmaker, who won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1998 for Eternity and a Day, often spent summers with his family at the house in Mati, east of the capital.”

If every new invention begins as a miracle, turns into a necessity, and ends up as a vice, the art of filmmaking is in the restoration of its miraculous aspect. In recent years, great movies have been made with a varied range of devices, including consumer-grade video cameras, toy cameras, iPhones, and even pieced together from footage borrowed from the Internet. But whether a movie is made with grand Hollywood equipment or with ordinary devices, there’s nothing banal about a great cinematic image