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FATAL ATTRACTION

Paramount+ Original

Paramount

We remember seeing the original Fatal Attraction with Michael Douglas (Wall Street, The Game, Ant-Man franchise) and Glenn Close (Air Force One, Damages, Tehran).

We watched how emotions went from an illicit passion to aggression to stalking and how those involved navigate these relationships which made this an epic thriller!

The Fatal Attraction reboot brings these concepts and feelings together with Joshua Jackson (Dawson's Creek, Dr. Death, The Affair) and Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex, Party Down, Fleishman is in Trouble) pick up the characters of Dan Gallagher and Alex Forrest. Although the series is based on affairs, we see what happens after and how those involved deal with the fallout of his actions.

LOVE & DEATH

Max Original

HBO/Max + Spotify

This mini-series focuses on the true crime story of the death of Betty Gore by Candy Montgomery. Whether you saw Hulu's version, Candy or not, Love & Death is worth taking a look at how this story involving members of a small community interact with one another when this crime and murder trial took place. Elizabeth Olsen (Avengers franchise, Wandavision, Doctor Strange in the Mutiverse of Madness) and Jesse Plemons (Vice, The Irishman, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie) showcase these characters in another light.

We suggest that as you watch the 7 episodes, you also listen to the companion podcast of the same name as it brings insight to the series with those in front of and behind the camera. In partnership with Texas Monthly which reported the story when it came out during the trial, journalists share what took place to those involved after the trial, the Texas justice system, the culture at that time, and other insights.

THE FOXES OF HYDESVILLE

QCODE

Spotify

We always enjoy when QCODE drops a new series that takes us into another story that is guaranteed to be an immersive audio experience!

In The Foxes of Hydesville, we go back to the 1800's where Leah Fox (Carey Mulligan) has been estranged from her brother and teenage sisters. In this true story about the Fox sisters, we learn that they are not welcome in their town due to being mediums.

On the request of her brother, she takes them to where she lives and works to keep them safe while realizing that they have harnessed a power that is not only lucrative, but ultimately creates the social-religious movement of Spiritualism in the nineteenth century.

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TOWARDS AN ATHLETIC REBOOTING

by Ron Mwangaguhunga

Everyone nowadays is anxiously rebooting. And by rebooting I don’t quite mean a vigorous work wear boot. In the penultimate week of August, for example, Donald Trump rebooted his meandering, sour-grandpa campaign. The value add of data-driven Kellyanne Conway as the new Team Trump campaign manager signaled that, for good or for ill, the GOP standardbearer of the angry demographic feels the need to give it another try, to reintroduce himself to an already on-edge American public.

If politics is all about the strategic reset, then Hollywood nowadays is all about legacy-quels, the sequels and the reboots. The Woods was a stealth sequel to The Blair Witch Project. There will be a Blade Runner sequel in 2017, set decades after the 1982 original film. Also next year look forward to sequel/reboots of: Resident Evil, Trainspotting, John Wick, Wolverine and Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there any originality left in La-La Land? All this revisiting of past storylines is enough to give a movie-viewer a considerable case of Whiplash (nb: no sequel date yet set for that 2014 film about abusive drum instructors).

The word “re-boot” itself though apparently not the concept is a no-no among the cognoscenti, particularly on the left coast. So toxic is the term that The Rock – of The Fast and Furious franchise, rebooting in 2017 – recently made it perfectly clear that the new Jumanji is NOT a reboot. On Instagram he wrote: “for the record we are NOT making a reboot, but rather a continuation of the awesome JUMANJI story.” Whatever, Dwayne.

Economically as well, the pendulum swings.  “With economies all over the world growing too slowly and little scope left for new monetary stimulus, governments are turning their attention back to fiscal policy,” said recently the august Bloomberg View. What a sagacious way to say, essentially: reboot, reboot, reboot.

What is with all this rebooting and resetting? Whether or not The Trump or The Rock or even the Council of Economic Advisors want to admit it publicly, a reboot is a reboot is a reboot, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein. And this Olympian-level athletic contortioning of all kinds by the culturally, politically and economically powerful suggests strongly that something indeed is amiss in the land of milk and honey. But what?

The State of the Union, quite frankly, is gloomy. A Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll of the last several years shows a virtually unchanged amount of stress/worry among Americans from the Great Recession of 2008 to the present. Despite the bright economic indicators and rosy labor statistics we are still a very, very stressed out people. That might explain the rise of Trump, the various public reboots to get his message right. It might also explain, at least partly, why we keep going back to the movie theaters shelling out our hard-earned money for tickets to re-visit the same familiar characters and stories that we saw last year or the year before.

What is to be done? Stress is an inevitable aspect of life and, unfortunately, we live in a particularly stressful and turbulent era. While we cannot control the vast forces that influence us culturally, politically or even economically, we are stewards of our own physical real estate. As simple as it might sound, a good workout is a wellknown coping technique in a world gone antsy.

Reconnect with your body. Perhaps instead of a sequel or a reboot or the political circus on the cablers you might prefer to throw on some particularly fly athleisure gear and have a good workout or smooth yourself out with some restorative yoga? The most useful reboots do not involve politics, culture or the economy. Your body is calling. Say no to reboots and say yes, dear reader, to rebooty.ing

Ron Mwangaguhunga is a Brooklyn based writer focused on media, culture and politics. His work has appeared in Huffington Post, IFC and Tribeca Film Festival, Kenneth Cole AWEARNESS, NY Magazine, Paper Magazine, CBS News.com, and National Review online to name a few. He is currently the editor of the Corsair.