Judy Berman

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Someday, Josh Holloway should play Matthew McConnaughey’s brother. There’s an obvious physical resemblance; born within months of one another in 1969, both actors are tall and lean but muscular, with angular features and, often, light, chin-grazing hair. They share a relaxed energy and the hint of a Southern twang—attributes that seem inextricably connected. But there’s a subtle difference in their default temperaments. McConnaughey is the affable golden boy with a dark side waiting to be unearthed.

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Judy Berman

Taking the sting off that GTA 6 delay, Rockstar leaker says GTA 4 could get a modern port this year, with Max Payne 3 to followWhile we're all-in on GTA 6 thanks to the new trailer, there's still another year and change to wait thanks to the most recent delay, which pushed …

6 days ago | time.com | Judy Berman

Two teenagers meet at a party and fall truly, madly, hastily in love. Then life—specifically, their families—gets in the way. It’s a tale at least as old as Shakespeare, whose tragedy Romeo and Juliet has resonated with and been reinvented by every generation for more than four centuries. But it is also the premise of Judy Blume’s 1975 YA classic Forever, a novel grounded in its second-wave feminist era that still feels authentic and audacious 50 years later.

1 week ago | time.com | Judy Berman

In an early scene of Bad Boy, an award-winning Israeli drama series that has just arrived on Netflix, Tamara Scheinman opens her front door to find the hallway of her apartment building crowded with police. Dawn has yet to break, but they’ve already secured a warrant to search the harried single mom’s home and arrest the older of her two sons, Dean (Guy Manster). “I asked them not to come,” Tamara (Neta Plotnik) insists to the social worker accompanying the cops.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Judy Berman

Synnøve Karlsen, left, and Patsy Ferran in <i>Miss Austen</i> Credit - Robert Vigalsky—Bonnie Productions and <i>Masterpiece</i>No novelist in the English language is more closely associated with the marriage plot than Jane Austen. That literary trope turned rom-com convention gives structure to all six of her masterworks—which goes to show that the romance genre, far from mere escapism, can be an ideal lens through which to observe a society’s values.