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TV and film
Bad Monkey Developed by Bill Lawrence (Apple TV+, 2024) Bad Monkey is an incredibly novelistic TV show. This is unsurprising, given that it is an adaptation of...
The Apprentice Directed by Ali Abbasi (Briarcliff, 2024) For all the obvious effort that went into making it, The Apprentice doesn’t seem to be a film that...
Butch Patrick, who portrayed Eddie, the son in a literal family of monsters on the 1960s sitcom The Munsters, recently made a public appearance at a horror...
Jim Henson wasn’t interested in making children’s shows. That is one of the big surprises in Ron Howard’s new celebratory documentary Jim Henson: Idea Man...
Kidnapped Directed by Mario Bellocchio (IBC Movie, 2024) In the eyes of a child, Catholicism can be bizarre, a point driven home to me recently when, mid-Mass...
Sadly, the final season of Vera is just over the Northumberland horizon. In 2025, the beloved BBC police drama will air its last and 14th series. The show is...
Inside Out 2 Directed by Kelsey Mann (Pixar, 2024) Inside Out 2 is Pixar’s highest-grossing film of all time. And for good reason. It’s loaded with vocal...
In the early 1990s, America was obsessed with violent inner-city crime, especially if it was committed by young Black men. The crack cocaine epidemic was...
One of the more intriguing questions about the new Flannery O’Connor film Wildcat is how it came about in the first place. Directed and co-written by actor...