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Atlanta Season 3, Episode 9 Is A Mixed Bag Of Disappointment
The show’s interpretation of Blackness is limited in the same way that the episode is attempting to critique other people’s myopic definitions of what it means to be Black, and it shows. By the episode’s end, Aaron is “acting Black” in a way he wasn’t before, and so he declares that he’s “never been more […] More
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Halo Episode 8: Allegiances Are Forged And Shattered As Halo Finally Hits Its Stride
With all these seeds planted throughout the episode, the climax is effectively set up to bring everything crashing down on top of our main characters. Having stolen her daughter Miranda’s biometrics during her last visit 2 episodes ago, Halsey uses this clearance to contact Makee and set the wheels in motion for her escape. Bringing […] More
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The Time Traveler’s Wife Review: A Troubling Tale Of Love And Loss That’s Too Shallow To Thrive
The best moments of the series use time travel as a jumping-off point to zero in on its characters — interactions between Henry and his older self as he battles self-hatred or stares his future right in the face; the question of what he must do to survive when thrown back in time, lost and […] More
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The Kids In The Hall Review: The Canadian Quintet Returns Mostly To Comic Form
If there is any point during which “The Kids in the Hall” tiptoes perhaps a little too close to feeling like a complaint about the current state of humor, the type of grouchy early-Boomer grousing about what is or isn’t allowable to be funny anymore, it comes during these various sketches. In one, the big […] More
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Gentleman Jack Rekindles An Old Flame In ‘Tripe All Over The Place, Presumably’
“Tripe All Over The Place, Presumably” sets a few potential disasters in motion. But before things get bad, they actually go pretty damn well. Turns out Anne wasn’t kidding about her grand scheme to visit all the Walker relatives and change the narrative surrounding her and Ann — two gal pals who are definitely just […] More
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Better Call Saul Season 6 Leaves Us ‘Black And Blue’ With Another Tense Episode
If you were wondering where Lalo has been during the last few episodes of “Better Call Saul,” we now have an answer: Germany! And no, he’s not there for Oktoberfest. Instead, Lalo is still gathering definitive proof that Gus Fring is up to something (beyond the whole “fast food franchise owner moonlighting as a drug kingpin” thing, […] More
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Half Of A Fun Sam Raimi Movie
Doctor Strange, meanwhile, goes back home but learns that when he, too, used the Darkhold and put himself in his dead corpse (who was previously a ponytailed version of himself seen in the opening moments), there was a price for him to pay … in the form of a literal third eye bursting out of […] More
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Gene Pushes Back In This Week’s Satirical Episode Of Barry
Back on the set of “Laws of Humanity,” we see the big scene being filmed for the first time, as Barry (in his role as a pharma executive) apologizes to Gene (as the widower) for his misdeeds. (It is here I will note that the lead character of this show is apparently named Hugh Manity. […] More
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Billy Crystal Dances And Sings Within His Comfort Zone On Broadway
Beginning with an old washed-up Buddy performing stand-up at retirement homes, the show is set in a 1994 New York City and has flashbacks from the late 1940s to early 1950s. In the adapted book of Crystal’s screenplay with his original co-screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, new and old materials settle in. The funniest […] More
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Paper Boi Is Canceled In Atlanta Season 3 Episode 8, ‘New Jazz’
Inside the building, he sees a weeping white woman on the floor, bathed in a pale spotlight set against the otherwise dark room. At this point, it’s important to remember that Al is probably high as a kite, so we have no way of knowing if what he sees is real or some sort of […] More
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‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Is the MCU at Its Most Ambitiously Imperfect
An entirely valid criticism of modern blockbuster filmmaking is that it’s all become far too safe, with the desire to keep churning out facsimile franchise fare guaranteed to make big bucks at the box office regularly taking precedence over the desire or ambition to take risks. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been complicit at […] More
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Halo Episode 7 Puts The Master Chief On The Backburner For A Detour Into The Desert
Never before has Kwan Ha, once such a promising character at the beginning of the series, felt more like an afterthought — ironic, given that this episode was clearly meant as her moment to shine. To Yerin Ha’s credit, the actor is tasked with carrying the vast majority of the hour with very little in […] More