Being a teen in high school is tough business. Hormones are going wild. Drama between friends is earth-shattering. Picking out the clothes you’re going to wear is a decision that would make Calvin Klein melt into a puddle of anxiety and fear. And the worst part? Your parents, they just don’t understand. Now, if you were to add a threat of your whole body randomly popping like a bloody pimple, you can understand why Mara just can’t take it anymore in the new film, “Spontaneous,” a surprisingly sweet, funny, and horrifically timely teen rom-com.

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You know what would be funny? A film about teens who go to school and then find out that there’s some mysterious illness that is causing them all to spontaneously combust. Well, at least the filmmakers behind “Spontaneous” think that’s the premise for a hilarious teen comedy, even if it does sound a bit horrific at first glance.

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In the new trailer for “Spontaneous,” a teen girl meets a teen boy and flirtation ensues.

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Netflix has plumbed the depths of teen TV. They have shows about autistic high schoolers and British sexuality and a girl who can explode football players with her brain. But they don’t often venture into full-tilt, high-budget fantasy yet. Their female protagonists rarely wield swords. Enter “Cursed,” the streaming service’s first dalliance with Arthurian legend.

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In this retelling, based on Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller’s novel of the same name, plenty of familiar names pop up: Merlin, Arthur, Morgana.

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What do you do when “13 Reasons Why” is over, “The Witcher” is on hiatus and you want to stay in both the Katherine Langford and swords and sorcerers business? If you’re Netflix, you combine the two, with “Cursed,” which is a re-imagination of an Arthurian legend and all features their fetching young star.

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Created by comic book legend and filmmaker Frank Miller and Thomas Wheeler, “Cursed” is a reimagining of the Arthurian legend told from the perspective of Nimue (Katherine Langford).

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Can you alter a legend? Netflix is willing to explore the answer as they bring to life the popular book “Cursed.” The usual Arthurian tales place the Lady of the Lake in the position of an enchantress, giving her a secondary role to King Arthur and his male counterparts. In this retelling, Nimue takes center stage as she finds herself gifted with a mysterious sword and the potentially dangerous aspects of a quest to find Merlin.

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The first ten-or-so minutes of Rian Johnson’s ingenious new whodunit “Knives Out” get right down to business. Johnson’s script briskly and efficiently introduces the major players in a murder investigation most foul, then assigns them each a plausible motive for the killing of mystery novelist Harlan Thrombrey (Christopher Plummer). His family tree has rot at the roots; it’s in his hot-tempered eldest daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her feckless husband (Don Johnson).

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**Massive spoilers for “Avengers: Endgame” below**

When you first experience “Avengers: Endgame,” it can be overwhelming. By the end of the film’s expanded run-time, you’re likely to have felt that you watched three separate movies, culminating in the biggest superhero battle ever seen before. So, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t process every little detail of what you saw, or more specifically, what you didn’t see.

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When Katherine Langford revealed that she wouldn’t be returning for the next season of Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why,” fans wondered where the young actress would be seen next. Well, after today’s news, combined with the recent report that she’s joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe in “Avengers 4,” fans shouldn’t worry about Langford finding any roles. Trust us, she’s doing just fine.

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THR reports that the actress is the latest to join Rian Johnson’s upcoming film “Knives Out.” The film, which is described as a modern take on the Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, stars Daniel Craig as a detective asked to solve a murder in a modern-day whodunit.

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Netflix‘s “13 Reasons Why” star Katherine Langford has reportedly joined the cast of “Avengers 4,” according to TheWrap. So do we add her to the list of Marvel heroes whose fate is still unknown?

According to TheWrap, Langford has already filmed her scenes, but her role in the film is still unknown. However, representatives for Langford have denied her involvement.

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There was an unforeseen elegance to the first season of Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why,” which married tragic melancholy and deeply sought for moments of hope, creating a series worthy the heavy (and lengthy) discussion that would follow. Based on the book by Jay Asher (who was recently accused of harassment), it made vast improvements to a source material that relied too heavily on the mystique of the “beautiful dead girl” trope and glorified suicide — all of which was unnervingly targeted primarily to teenagers.

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Netflix is notorious for not releasing their streaming numbers, but keen internet users have ways of guesstimating how many people are watching certain shows. One such way is to look at how many people are tweeting about it. Last year, the Netflix original “13 Reasons Why”saw more than 11 million tweets about it making it the most tweeted about show on 2017.  With those kinds of numbers, it was a no-brainer for Netflix to renew it for a second season.

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How is it 2018 and “Love, Simon” is the first major gay teen film from a studio? The film is at once groundbreaking and so long overdue that it’s embarrassing. For decades, teens have seen themselves on screen in characters such as Cady Heron, Kat Stratford, Lloyd Dobbler and Samantha Baker, and finally offering a gay lead character to stand among them is groundbreaking for teenagers who can identify with Simon Spier (Nick Robinson).

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The teenage coming-of-age/discovering yourself/love story genre is overflowing with entries, but few of them deal with what it’s like being gay in high school. That changes with “Love, Simon” which takes on the big subject of accepting and owning your sexuality, all within the familiar teen movie tropes.

Directed by Greg Berlanti, who knows this territory well as the hit TV producer behind tweenage fare like “Riverdale,” “The Flash,” and “Supergirl,”  the movie is based on the book by Becky Albertalli, and follows Simon, a closeted teenager who starts falling for anonymous classmate online.

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Greg Berlanti is mostly known as the hit TV producer behind “Riverdale,” “The Flash,” “Supergirl,” “Blindspot,” and countless other series. But he does have filmmaking aspirations too. His last big screen effort was 2010’s mostly forgotten “Life As We Know It” starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel, but now he’s back with something in his tweenage sweetspot with “Love, Simon.”

Starring Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Alexandra Shipp, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Miles Heizer, Keiynan Lonsdale, Logan Miller, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel, and Tony Hale, and based on the book by Becky Albertalli, the story follows a teenage who navigates the complications of coming out.

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One of the interesting things about Netflix and their original series is that the passage of what becomes a hit (seemingly: the streaming service still fiercely protect actual viewership figures, but it’s easy enough to tell from social media buzz and the like) is genuinely organic. “Orange Is The New Black” became a much bigger talking point than the infinitely more-hyped “House Of Cards,” “Bojack Horseman” gradually built fans to become a cult comedy, and last year, “Stranger Things” came from almost nowhere to become seemingly the streaming service’s buzziest show ever.

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The Bingeworthy Breakdown is an occasional look at new TV shows. An estimated 500 scripted seasons of TV will air in 2017, and to help you sort the wheat from the chaff, we’re going to look at the first episodes of the most notable of these to help you work out whether it’s worth tuning in every week for them, waiting to binge later, or using the time to finally catch up on “Sneaky Pete” or whatever else you’ve been waiting for.

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