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(CNN)Virtual question mightiness beryllium the safest mode to question astatine the moment.
But, acknowledgment to streaming services, we tin inactive caput disconnected to distant lands.
Case successful point: "Emily successful Paris" play 2 has the American visiting the Palace of Versailles, St-Tropez and different très chic locations successful the South of France.
Even if you're conscionable wanderlusting for a interruption from family, determination is plentifulness of contented that feels merry and bright.
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'Emily successful Paris' Season 2
Emily is "coming successful haute."
The 2nd play of the Netflix bid has Lily Collins returning arsenic the stylish American selling executive, inactive surviving it up successful Paris and dealing with the fallout of a determination from past season.
Has our miss officially go French? Because the mode her emotion beingness is rolling is precise overmuch giving joie de vivre.
You tin drawback play 2 of "Emily successful Paris," streaming now.
'The Matrix Resurrections'
We volition person what Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are having.
The brace hardly look overmuch older successful the 4th movie successful the Matrix franchise than they did successful the 1999 original.
Both are inactive doing the astir erstwhile it comes to the action-packed scenes, too.
So far, the reviews are mixed (our ain Brian Lowry didn't emotion it), but if you are into it, the movie is successful theaters and streaming connected HBO Max. (CNN and HBO are some portion of WarnerMedia.)
'Being the Ricardos'
Life down the scenes for Lucille Ball (played by Nicole Kidman) and Desi Arnaz (Javier Bardem) is the taxable of this biopic, acceptable during a clip the mates was battling a governmental smear and taking connected taste taboos.
Kidman has said she almost passed up the relation aft backlash implicit her casting, but acknowledgment to the enactment of the film's writer and manager Aaron Sorkin, she dived (red) caput archetypal into the portrayal of the analyzable idiosyncratic and nonrecreational narration of the mates who would marque "I Love Lucy" an iconic sitcom.
It's playing successful theaters and streaming connected Amazon Prime.
Bonus: CNN workfellow Kendall Trammell and I discussed immoderate of the 2022 films we are astir looking guardant to being released connected the latest occurrence of my play show, Pop Life Pop Off! You tin presumption it here:
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If I were doing a "best podcasts of 2021" list, this 1 would decidedly person to beryllium connected it.
"Storytime With Seth Rogen" is based connected the premise that everyone has a brainsick communicative to archer — and who amended to assistance archer it than Rogen?
The histrion works hard astatine it, which is evident successful the large stories that person been featured, similar the communicative of a antheral who fought a grizzly carnivore and lived to archer the tale.
The Earwolf Podcast Network task tin beryllium recovered wherever podcasts are available.
I'm including this 1 successful the hopes that we get a caller occurrence soon.
The episodes of Michelle Obama's podcast were released sporadically, and the past 1 came retired successful April.
But what we bash person are deep-dive conversations with the radical successful her lives that are gold.
We cognize you are busy, Mrs. Obama, but a instrumentality to the podcast would beryllium a great Christmas present.
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'Tis the play for vacation movies.
Whether it's Hallmark oregon Netflix, determination is astir thing for everyone successful presumption of contented for this clip of the year.
But however astir we punch it up a bit?
So play away!
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I can't fto "Insecure" extremity without sharing a tribute.
The HBO series, starring and created by Issa Rae, has meant a large woody to Black women for its realistic portrayal of friendships, emotion and life.
I've been riding with Rae since I archetypal stumbled crossed her endowment a decennary agone via her YouTube series, "The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl."
Now, aft 5 seasons, the bid is ending Sunday, and I americium going to miss it. And portion determination has been a large woody of involvement successful who Rae whitethorn oregon whitethorn not extremity up with romantically successful the series, for me, her existent loves volition ever stay her closest friends — Molly, Kelli and Tiffany.