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Thursday, February 25, 2021

Eating

Eating Out at the Movies

February 25, 2021 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Andre Gregory, Babette's Feast, Barry Levinson, Bill Murray, Coffee & Cigarrettes, COVID-19, Diner, Five Easy Pieces, Groundhog Day, Jack Nicholson, Jack White, Jim Jarmusch, Meg White, My Dinner With Andre, Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, The Trip, Wallace Shawn

With many restaurants and bars closed permanently, let’s live our day vicariously through these classic scenes

Muppet Show

Featured Stories TELEVISION

Is ‘The Muppet Show’ Racist?

February 24, 2021February 25, 2021 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Debbie Harry, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, Jim Henson, Johnny Cash, Julie Andrews, Lena Horne, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, The Muppet Show, The Swedish Chef

A Disney+ disclaimer creates a cultural uproar

Land

Give Me Land, Lots of Land

February 24, 2021 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Gareth Jones, Land, Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester’s history of people’s endless thirst for real estate

Allen v. Farrow

DOCUMENTARY Featured Stories FILM

One-Sided HBO Documentary Convicts Woody Allen

February 23, 2021February 24, 2021 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Allen v. Farrow, Amy Ziering, Dylan Farrow, Harvey Weinstein, Kirby Dick, Manhattan, Mia Farrow, Roman Polanski, Ronan Farrow, Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen

Film about abuse charges doesn’t pretend to be impartial

Nubia

COMICS Featured Stories

Brand New Nubia

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments DC Comics, LL McKinney, Nubia, Robyn Smith, Wonder Woman

DC gives Wonder Woman’s Black twin sister a new teen graphic novel

I Care A Lot

‘I Care A Lot’

February 22, 2021February 25, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Dianne Wiest, Elza González, I Care A Lot, J Blakeson, Peter Dinklage, Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike rips off the elderly in a wicked Netflix movie that can’t quite nail down its genre

Willy's Wonderland

Chuck E. Cheesy

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 Pablo Gallaga 0 Comments Nicolas Cage, Willy's Wonderland

In the schlocky ‘Willy’s Wonderland’, a mute Nicolas Cage goes nuts in a haunted kids’ restaurant

Barb and Star

‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar’

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Annie Mumolo, Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar, Jamie Dornan, Kristen Wiig

A genuinely silly 1980s-style comedy from Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo

Freaks and Geeks

‘Freaks and Geeks’: Lost and Found

February 18, 2021February 23, 2021 Michael Giltz 0 Comments American Dreams, An American Family, Blair Brown, Brittany Snow, Busy Phillips, David Straithairn, Ernie Kovacs, Freaks and Geeks, Genndy Tartakovsky, Holocaust, Hornblower, I'll Fly Away, Ioan Gruffud, James Franco, Jason Segal, Jay Tarses, Linda Cardellini, Louise Lasser, Mary Hartman, Meryl Streep, Molly Dodd, Moonlighting, Police Squad!, Regina Taylor, Sam Waterston, Seth Rogen, The Clone Wars, The Monkees, The Zucker Brothers, Timothy Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh

With ‘Freaks’ and ‘The Muppet Show’ finally streaming, here are some other great shows we want to see back in the rotation

young adult

Featured Stories FICTION Young Adult

An Exciting Year For Black Young Adult Authors

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 Lily Moayeri 0 Comments Camryn Garrett, Debbie Rigaud, Fast Pitch, Ilyas'a Shabazz, Instructions for Dancing, Jay Coles, Leah Johnson, Love is a Revolution, Muted, nic stone, Nicola Yoon, Off the Record, Renee Watson, Rise to the Sun, Sharon Flake, Simone Breaks All The Rules, Tami Charles, The Awakening of Malcolm X, The Life I'm In, The Skin I'm In, Things We Couldn't Say, Tiffany Jackson

Great new narratives from returning favorites

freezing

FILM TELEVISION

Some Great Movies About Freezing Your Ass Off

February 17, 2021February 19, 2021 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Charles Martin Smith, Ciaran Hinds, Dr. Zhivago, Fargo, Frozen, Jack Nicholson, John Carpenter, Leonardo DiCaprio, Never Cry Wolf, Steve Buscemi, The Revenant, The Shining, The Terror, The Thing

We have problems in Texas right now, but at least we don’t have these problems. Or do we?

Slough House

All the Slow Horses

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Christopher Farnsworth 0 Comments Mick Herron, Slough House, Slow Horses

‘Slough House’, the seventh book in Mick Herron’s series about disgraced exiles from British intelligence

Trump

Politics TELEVISION

Memories of the Trump Show

February 17, 2021February 23, 2021 Mia McCullough 1 Comment Anthony Scaramucci, Bill Barr, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, John Kelly, Kayleigh McEnany, Mike Pompeo, Paul Manafort, Rex Tillerson, Robert Mueller, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, Sean Spicer, Stormy Daniels

After four gripping and appalling seasons, how can we go back to regularly-scheduled programming?

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

February 12, 2021February 18, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Boots Riley, Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons, Jordan Peele, Judas and the Black Messiah, Lakeith Stanfield, Martin Sheen, Shaka King, Sidney Lumet

A solid, straight-laced, Oscar-friendly film about a Black revolutionary movement

Valentine's Day

It’s Valentine’s Day, Charlie Brown!

February 12, 2021February 17, 2021 Bill Thomas 0 Comments

And no one loves you

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