Aurora Amidon, Author at Consequence

Welcome to Chippendales: What’s Fact and Fiction In the New Hulu True Crime Series?

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:00:50 +0000

Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales is without a doubt one of the biggest surprises that TV has to offer this year. Following Chippendales founder Steve Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani), the show starts out as an exciting underdog tale about an Indian emigrant who goes on to create one of the world’s most…

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Welcome to Chippendales: What’s Fact and Fiction In the New Hulu True Crime Series?
Aurora Amidon

Welcome to Chippendales Is True Crime at Its Most Compelling and Unexpected: Review

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:00:43 +0000

The Pitch: If you don’t live under a rock, chances are you’ve heard of Chippendales: the elegant, trailblazing first-ever all-male strip-tease troupe that has been bringing delightfully scandalous thrills to audiences since the 1970s. What you may not know, however, is that the burlesque’s history is brimming with conspiracy, racketeering,…

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Welcome to Chippendales Is True Crime at Its Most Compelling and Unexpected: Review
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Mindhunter Tells Us Exactly Why We Love True Crime

Aurora Amidon — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:16:22 +0000

There’s no hiding from it: We are currently living in the era of mass serial killer content. From Ryan Murphy’s controversial new deep-dive into the life and deaths of Jeffrey Dahmer to the macabre, Netflix-produced Ted Bundy Tapes, it seems that a new psychopath-centered show is entering the zeitgeist every…

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Mindhunter Tells Us Exactly Why We Love True Crime
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A Friend of the Family Review: A Slow-Burn True Crime Series That’s Truly Harrowing

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:41:18 +0000

The Pitch: When Robert “B” Berchtold (Jake Lacy) moves with his family to a quaint, peaceful town in rural Idaho, he becomes an instant hit with the Broberg family. The Berchtolds and the Brobergs instantly become inseparable: they vacation together, dine together, and attend the Church of the Jesus Christ…

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A Friend of the Family Review: A Slow-Burn True Crime Series That’s Truly Harrowing
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Echoes Review: A Fascinating Story Gets Undermined by a Thirst for Twists

Aurora Amidon — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:00:33 +0000

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of Echoes, “Falls.”] The Pitch: What if two adult identical twins swapped places every year, unbeknownst to everyone in their lives? Such is the premise of Netflix’s Echoes, a show that opens on a shrewd and successful author named…

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Echoes Review: A Fascinating Story Gets Undermined by a Thirst for Twists
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How Only Murders in the Building’s Music Supervisors Perfected the Needle Drop

Aurora Amidon — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:48:55 +0000

It’s hard to think of an element of filmmaking that is as simultaneously critical and hidden as music. It is the unassuming link that binds a film together from moment to moment; it is the final piece of the puzzle that makes the whole experience that much more cohesive; more…

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How Only Murders in the Building’s Music Supervisors Perfected the Needle Drop
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Win Tickets to an Advance Screening of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Aurora Amidon — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:51:40 +0000

If you’re itching to watch A24’s Marcel the Shell With Shoes On but can’t wait until its general release on June 24th, today might be your lucky day. It’s been over ten years since our favorite stop-motion shell came along and stole our hearts. Directed by Dean Flesicher-Camp and co-written…

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Win Tickets to an Advance Screening of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
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Here’s Why Tim Allen Isn’t Voicing Buzz in the New Lightyear Movie

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 17:42:51 +0000

It’s hard to think of an animated character that is more iconic than Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear. Voiced by Tim Allen, Buzz is goofy, optimistic, relatable, and undeniably lovable. So when Pixar and Disney announced that Buzz was getting his own feature film, entitled simply Lightyear, fans were naturally overjoyed.…

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Here’s Why Tim Allen Isn’t Voicing Buzz in the New Lightyear Movie
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The 10 Most Brutal Stunts in Jackass 4.5

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 31 May 2022 19:07:03 +0000

Ever since 2002, the Jackass team has been responsible for some of the most brutal and hard-to-watch stunts on television. With six features and multiple spin-offs, the cast members have engaged in hundreds of stunts on camera, sometimes suffering serious injuries as a result. This year, the gang got back…

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The 10 Most Brutal Stunts in Jackass 4.5
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Oh God, We’ve Made a Playlist of Every Song Featured in a Marvel Movie or TV Show

Aurora Amidon — Wed, 18 May 2022 14:00:17 +0000

This article is part of Consequence’s Marvel Pop Culture Week, examining all the ways in which the MCU invokes our world’s pop culture and creates its own. Here, we compiled a definitive playlist of every song used in a Marvel movie or TV show, so you don’t have to. (Spoiler…

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Oh God, We’ve Made a Playlist of Every Song Featured in a Marvel Movie or TV Show
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Why Robert Pattinson Had to Get Weird Before Booking The Batman

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:05:37 +0000

The mysterious machine of stardom is a fickle, unpredictable thing. As long as Hollywood has been around, it has been known to mold and remodel careers in an exceedingly unpredictable manner. Perhaps the most outrageous example of this appears in the form of our beloved Robert Pattinson, whose time in…

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Why Robert Pattinson Had to Get Weird Before Booking The Batman
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Oscars 2022 Predictions: Who Will Win In Each Race?

Aurora Amidon and Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:17:24 +0000

The days right before the Oscars are maybe the most fascinating time of awards season, that calm before the storm when it feels like so much is certain — yet also not certain at all. Every year, the prognosticators do their best to say they definitely know who will win…

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Oscars 2022 Predictions: Who Will Win In Each Race?
Aurora Amidon and Liz Shannon Miller

Ariana DeBose: 5 Things to Know About the West Side Story Star

Aurora Amidon — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 16:13:03 +0000

Ariana DeBose has been gracing Hollywood with her presence for over a decade now, and she’s finally getting the recognition she deserves. After knocking audiences’ socks off with her dynamic, heartbreaking performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s highly-acclaimed West Side Story, DeBose has won a number of accolades, including a…

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Ariana DeBose: 5 Things to Know About the West Side Story Star
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Win Away Luggage, 20 Blu-Rays and More for Focus Features’ 20th Anniversary Giveaway

Aurora Amidon — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 15:00:16 +0000

From Downton Abbey to Brokeback Mountain to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the outstanding titles produced and/or distributed by Focus Features seem almost unlimited. When talking about the film business, it’s pretty hard to come up with production companies that have blessed the world with more modern classics, including…

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Win Away Luggage, 20 Blu-Rays and More for Focus Features’ 20th Anniversary Giveaway
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in Amazon’s Epic New Series

Aurora Amidon — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 20:20:11 +0000

Fans have been patiently, (or, let’s face it, impatiently), awaiting the release of the new series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power since Amazon bought the TV rights to the franchise for $250 million back in 2017. In the past couple of months, we’ve finally been rewarded for…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Cast and Character Guide: Who’s Who in Amazon’s Epic New Series
Aurora Amidon