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Sunday, January 26, 2020

‘Color Out Of Space’ Brings Back Cosmic Horror

January 25, 2020January 24, 2020 Pablo Gallaga 0 Comments Color Out of Space, H.P. Lovecraft, Mandy, Nicolas Cage, Richard Stanley

And Director Richard Stanley

The Turning Mackenzie Davis Finn Wolfhard

FILM

‘The Turning’ Screws Its Audience

January 24, 2020 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Brooklynn Prince, Deborah Kerr, Finn Wolfhard, Floria Sigismondi, Little Women, Mackenzie Davis, The Florida Project, The Innocents, The Turning

A Very Bad Updating of a Classic Story

FILM

‘The Gentlemen’, Another Ludicrous British Crime Cartoon From Guy Ritchie

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Bugzy Malone, Charlie Hunnam, Colin Farrell, Eddie Marson, Guy Ritchie, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant, Matthew McConaughey, Michelle Dockery, The Gentlemen

Plus It’s Racist Against Chinese People!

Actors CREATORS Directors FILM TELEVISION Writers

Terry Jones: The Method Behind the Madness

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Rob Kutner 3 Comments

How “The Adorably Horrifying One” Spewed Vomit Into Comedy Gold

FILM TELEVISION

Each Best Picture Nominee Rated By the Linearity of Its Narrative

January 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments 1917, Academy Awards, Best Picture, Christopher Nolan, Ford Vs. Ferrari, Greta Gerwig, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Little Women, Marriage Story, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Oscar, Parasite, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Sunset Boulevard, The Irishman, Watchmen

Introducing ‘The Murph Scale’

Netflix TELEVISION

Alexa & Katie, BFFs

January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Alexa & Katie, Dan Schneider, Isabel May, John Green, Paris Barely

Despite Laugh Track, Teen Cancer Sitcom Continues to Rise Above the Genre

CREATORS FILM Remembrance TELEVISION

Terry Jones (1942-2020), RIP

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Trevor Seigler 0 Comments Eric Idle, John Cleese, John Oliver, Justin Trudeau, Michael Palin, Monty Python, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

His Colleagues Honor the Comedian, Scholar, and Naked Organ Player

FILM History TELEVISION

Little Women, Big Anachronisms

January 22, 2020 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments Downton Abbey, Dress In The Age Of Jane Austen, Hannah Greig, historians, Historians At The Movies, Howard's End, Iron Man, Kiera Knightley, Little Women, Mark Rothko, Motherless Brooklyn, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. #HATM, Philip Chavez, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Poldark, Pride And Prejudice, The Favorite, The Patriot

For Experts in the Art, Fashion, and Material Culture of the Past, Minor Historical Inaccuracies Can Ruin a Perfectly Good Film

FICTION

‘Girl, Woman, Other’

January 22, 2020January 23, 2020 Michael Giltz 0 Comments Bernadine Evaristo, Girl Woman Other

A Symphony of Women’s Voices in Last Year’s Booker Prize Winner

TELEVISION

‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Meets #MeToo

January 21, 2020January 22, 2020 Neal Pollack 2 Comments #MAGA, #metoo, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jeff Garlin, Larry David, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson

And Yes, Jeff Garlin Looks Like Harvey Weinstein

MUSIC Poetry

‘The ABCs Of Metallica’

January 21, 2020January 22, 2020 Kevin L. Jones 0 Comments Enter Sandman, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Kiss, Lars Ulrich, Master Of Puppets, Metallica, The ABCs Of Metallica

A Picture Book That Teaches Kids How to be Heavy-Metal Sellouts

Netflix TELEVISION

The Devil and Leslie Jones

January 20, 2020January 21, 2020 Michael Patrick Welch 0 Comments Bill Burr, Chris Rock, Dave Chappell, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Jones, Louis CK, Pete Davidson, Time Machine

Her Standup Special ‘Time Machine’ Finds the Comedian Totally in Her Element

FILM

Black Oscar Snubs–The Egregious History

January 20, 2020 Kyra Jones 0 Comments #OscarsSoWhite, A Raisin In The Sun, Academy Awards, Angela Bassett, Ava DuVernay, Billy Dee Williams, David Oyelwo, Denzel Washington, Diana Ross, Hidden Figures, Janelle Monae, Lady Sings The Blues, Malcolm X, Octavia Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar, Richard Pryor, Ruby Dee, Ryan Coogler, Samuel L. Jackson, Selma, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Smith

#OscarsSoWhite Through the Decades

FILM

The Doctor is Insane

January 19, 2020January 18, 2020 Jonpaul Henry Guinn 0 Comments Antonio Banderas, Dolittle, Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent, John Cena, Michael Sheen, Octavia Spencer, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr., Stephen Gaghan

What is ‘Dolittle’, Even?

CREATORS Remembrance

Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments C.S. Lewis, Christopher Tolkien, J.R.R Tolkien, Middle-earth, The Inklings, The Lord Of The Rings, The Silmarillion

Keeper of Middle-earth’s Legacy

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