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📺 Watch

Monsieur Spade is a period drama starring Clive Owen, reviving the character famously played by Humphre Bogart in The Maltese Falcon. The series, billed as ‘neo noir’ hasn’t received the same fanfare as a lot of the other shows out there, but I think it’s a worthwhile palette cleanser. 

A Murder at the End of the World is a really fun psychological thriller starring Brit Marling (who also created the show) alongside the beloved Emma Chamberlain as an amateur sleuth trying to solve a murder at an arctic retreat in Iceland.

What do you get when you mix Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, and Seth Rogan? Dumb Money, the film all about the GameStop short squeeze from back in January 2021. Remember that? Well this movie is the dramedy based on it. Add America Ferrera, Sebastian Stan, and Shailene Woodley, and you’ve got a sleeper hit. 

🎧 Listen

Sweet, bluesy folk/country: Sierra Ferrell - Long Time Coming

Incredibly soothing beats: Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

She’s still got it: Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2: 

📚 Read

North Woods, Daniel Mason’s 5th novel, is a brilliant historical fiction novel that follows the inhabitants of a single house in New England over the course of several centuries. 

Following the smashing success of Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid swings for the fences again with Come and Get It. If you like stories about messy relationships, desire, academia, and bad behaviour, you’ll gobble this one up. 

“Elly Conway” has been on the lips of many as the fictional author of the novel Argylle. Is Elly really Taylor Swift? I highly doubt it. “Elly Conway” is actually the name of a character in the upcoming movie Argylle, so there’s much mystery behind how the book ties to the film, out Feb 2. I’ll be watching it for sure….four words: Henry Cavill, Dua Lipa.