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In the featurette below, premiering exclusively on Billboard, Sink is a traveling troubadour in a wasteland communicating with her music, but runs afoul of a charismatic dictator, Plutonovich, played by Bartlett.
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
In a featurette from the forthcoming digital release of A Complete Unknown, which Entertainment Weekly can share exclusively above, star Timothée Chalamet discusses his extensive vocal and musical preparation to portray a young Dylan on the rise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
In fact, White teased the possibility of more Greg in a featurette accompanying that season’s finale.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
Bonus content will be available on the disc, including special features and a featurette.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
In a featurette from the forthcoming digital release of A Complete Unknown, which Entertainment Weekly can share exclusively above, star Timothée Chalamet discusses his extensive vocal and musical preparation to portray a young Dylan on the rise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
In fact, White teased the possibility of more Greg in a featurette accompanying that season’s finale.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
Bonus content will be available on the disc, including special features and a featurette.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for featurette
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Plus, from documentaries to a comedy, here's what else is on this week.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
18 Apr. 2025
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The episode calls to mind a similar controversy from more than 30 years ago involving PBS and POV, when a documentary short called Stop the Church was abruptly dropped from the network’s programming two weeks before its scheduled broadcast in the summer of 1991.—
Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Department of Education appears to have removed a key new feature of the StudentAid.gov website that has allowed borrowers to track their student loan forgiveness progress.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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The ability of car companies to charge users to activate some features is effectively the only reason the car’s systems need to communicate with cell towers.—
Dell Cameron,
Wired News,
28 Apr. 2025
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The Guardian newspaper reports that the former Doctor Who star – who appeared in the 2005 film adaptation of Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – gave his opinion of Rowling in answer to questions posed by a group of neurodivergent young adults in ITV’s show The Assembly.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2025
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Minaret Station | New Zealand’s South Island Those who watched the Lord of the Rings film series will recall the raw, ever-changing beauty of New Zealand’s South Island.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
27 Apr. 2025
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It was featured at the Beijing festival along with his two other features and five shorts.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2025
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New stories are expected, but excitingly, the teams behind the three most celebrated shorts from the first anthology have had a chance to revisit those worlds and tales, as The Duel, The Village Bride, and The Ninth Jedi are all getting follow-up shorts.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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The actress, who had shaved her head in 2024 for a movie role, managed to keep her lack of hair hidden until the awards show.—
Brittany Talarico,
People.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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What might work in a fantasy show, or a campy horror movie, comes off as weirdly goofy here.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The first time Kurt Russell met Val Kilmer was when the Hollywood homegrown was hanging out with Cher on the set of Silkwood, a 1983 docudrama.—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
2 Apr. 2025
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The filmmaker broke out with his 2023 docudrama BlackBerry, charting the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone, which premiered to critical raves at the Berlinale and was named by the National Board of Review as one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2023.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
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Other kids spent Saturday mornings watching cartoons.—
Leena Tailor,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Apr. 2025
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The logo contains a yellow circle, and inside the shape is a sunglasses-wearing cartoon duck dressed in a green shirt and red bowtie.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Featurette.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/featurette. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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