A review of the Fargo Season Four finale, “Storia Americana,” coming up just as soon as I tell you I’m a demented hag… “The old way for the old world. Brothers, uncles, cousins. We live in the new world now. We need a new way.” —Ebal “Storia Americana” opens with …
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Every Frederick Wiseman documentary that I’ve seen to date has … something. It isn’t easy to define. But his films, which are often long — his newest feature, City Hall (streaming online via Film Forum’s virtual cinema), runs a stark four-and-a-half hours — offer it in abundance. Moments, faces, images, …
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Sacha Baron Cohen offered some fascinating behind-the-scenes details from the making of Borat Subsequent Movie Film — including how that infamous Rudy Giuliani scene came about — during an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Monday, October 26th. To start, Colbert asked Baron Cohen to respond to Giuliani’s …
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When a documentary’s opening title card is “Flint, Michigan,” your instinct might be to assume that this will be a certain stripe of downbeat, sociological, living, tragic history — a story already pre-written by the headlines you’ve read about the place. But Roni Moore and James Blagden’s Midnight in Paris …
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Quibi, the short-form streaming service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, is shutting down after six months, as Wall Street Journal reports. Launched in April, Quibi’s shows were designed to be watched on a phone, with all episodes, called Chapters, running less than 10 minutes. It kicked off with two dozen shows. …
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Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and other late-night hosts questioned the efficacy of adding a mute button to cut down on interruptions during this Thursday’s presidential debate. As Colbert explained on The Late Show, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced it would mute the microphones of Donald Trump and Joe Biden …
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HBO will air two special episodes of Euphoria ahead of the show’s second season, Variety reports. The first, “Trouble Don’t Last Always,” will air December 6th on HBO before streaming on HBO Max. A title and release date for the second episode has yet to be announced. Both episodes were …
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A review of “Rewind 1921,” this week’s episode of Lovecraft Country, coming up just as soon as I tell you the ingredients for “road rash”… “I got ya, kid.” —Tic “Rewind 1921” debuts about a week shy of the one-year anniversary of the Watchmen series premiere, which put the Tulsa …
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More unexplainable deaths, strange disappearances and supernatural occurrences await in the new trailer for Volume 2 of Netflix’s Unsolved Mysteries. After the first half of the rebooted series debuted this summer, Unsolved Mysteries returns with six more episodes, premiering October 19th. The upcoming season includes episodes focused on the bizarre …
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UPDATE (10/5):The release date for Dune has been pushed from December 18th all the way to October 5th, 2021. ** The trailer for Dune — the latest adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science-fiction epic — has finally arrived. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the film is out on December 18th. Set …
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