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Millennial Trash: Buffy “Once More With Feeling”

When all of Sunnydale inexplicably bursts into song and dance numbers revealing their secret thoughts, it's up to Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her gang of Scoobies to put an end to the musical madness. Recently revived from the dead by her friends, Buffy discovers that she misses the peace and quiet of the grave. Filled to the brim with strange sing-alongs and punchy one-liners, "Once More, with Feeling" truly delivers the campy fun.

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Millennial Trash: Cruel Intentions

At an elite New York prep school, amoral debutante Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) enlists her ruthless stepbrother Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe) to seduce an ex's naive new girlfriend Cecile (Selma Blair). But Sebastian has also set his sights on a bigger challenge: deflowering the headmaster's virginal daughter Annette (Reese Witherspoon). The two place a bet and begin a vicious game of romantic rivalry. This unabashedly trashy adaptation of the 1782 French novel Dangerous Liaisons is one of the sleaziest films ever made for a teenage audience. With its sordid tale of sexual one-upmanship and Gellar's wickedly campy performance, Cruel Intentions has become both a guilty pleasure and a cult phenomenon.

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Women’s Work: Worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin

Ursula K. LeGuin moved her first steps as a writer in the male-dominated literary industry of the 50s. She was then one of the very first women writing science fiction, a genre held in disregard by the Hemingway-loving editors of the time. Rebellious and determined to prove that another kind of literature was possible, LeGuin kept conjuring up alternative worlds and universes that finally were acclaimed as a literary revelation by an increasing number of readers. Arwen Curry’s directorial debut is a careful reflection on LeGuin’s legacy as a world-builder and the result of an almost decade long conversation with contemporary authors such as Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and China Mieville as well as Ursula K. LeGuin herself.

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