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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

DeLillo

Don DeLillo Breaks The Silence

September 23, 2020 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Cosmpolis, David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo, Midnight in Dostoyevsky, The Body Artist, Time To Destination

Should a revered author be speaking at this point in his long career?

Ratched

Netflix TELEVISION

Bad Nurse

September 22, 2020 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Cynthia Nixon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ryan Murphy, Sarah Paulson, Tached

‘Ratched’ is the latest cultural product to make a hero out of a villain

China

CREATORS Featured Stories FILM

Big Trouble in China

September 22, 2020September 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments

An interview with media executive Chris Fenton, author of ‘Feeding the Dragon’.

TIFF

The Virtual TIFF Previews the Virtual Oscars

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Chloe Grace Moretz, François Ozon, Mads Mikkelsen, MLK/FBI, One Night In Miami, Regina King, Shadow in the Cloud, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival

Big woke awards contenders and Midnight Madness close out Toronto

Political

Featured Stories FILM Politics Uncategorized

Seven Movies About Living Under Political Conflict

September 21, 2020September 22, 2020 Matt Hanson 0 Comments Black Girl, David Straithairn, Edward R. Murrow, George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck, Howard Zinn, Ingrid Bergman, Jimmy Stewart, John Carpenter, John Ford, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Ousmane Sembene, Roberto Rossellini, Rome: Open City, Rowdy Roddy Piper, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, The People Speak, They Live, Yves Montand, Z

Nothing we’re going through is new

Microwave

FICTION NON-FICTION

Please Stop Microwaving Your Library Books

September 21, 2020 Katie Smith 0 Comments CDC, Free Library of Philadelphia, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Library Book, microwave, RFID, twitter

A COVID-era public service announcement

Fast Times

Actors CREATORS YouTube

The ‘Fast Times’ Table Read Reminds Us that COVID-19 Culture is the Worst

September 20, 2020September 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Billy Crystal, Brad Pitt, Carol Kane, Cary Elwes, Dane Cook, Fast Times, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Jennifer Aniston, John Legend, Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Morgan Freeman, Robin Wright, Shia LaBoeuf, The Princess Bride

Famous people being famous, and one weird stoner

movie

Featured Stories FILM Politics

Where Are All the Movie Theater COVID Cases?

September 18, 2020September 20, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Coronavirus, COVID-19, movie theater, movies, South Korea, Venice Film Festival

Not one reported case, anywhere in the world

Movie theaters

I Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies Yet

September 18, 2020September 21, 2020 Sara Stewart 1 Comment AMC, Bill and Ted, Cinemark, COVID-19, Movie theaters, Mulan, Tenet

A career critic says: Stay away

Raised By Wolves

Bleak New World

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 Scott Gold 0 Comments Raised by Wolves, Ridley Scott

‘Raised By Wolves’ gives us space travel, monsters, androids, and a grim sci-fi pioneer story that you won’t want to miss

Away

Netflix TELEVISION

Down, Down and ‘Away’

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 G.L. Ford 0 Comments Away, Hilary Swank, Josh Charles, Mark Ivanir, Vivian Lu

Netflix show trades the thrill of a Mars expedition for soapy backstory

TIFF

TIFF Goes Virtual

September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Chloé Zhao, David Byrne, Frances McDormand, Michel Franco, New Order, Night of the Kings, Nomadland, Phillipe Lacôte, Spike Lee, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival

Binge-watching the Toronto International Film Festival from home

Cuties

FILM Netflix Politics

Much Ado About ‘Cuties’

September 16, 2020September 22, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Cuties, Damien Chazelle, Donald Trump, First Man, Josh Hawley, Maïmouna Doucouré, Netflix, Ted Cruz, The Last Temptation of Christ, Tulsi Gabbard

How GOP lawmakers came to target a French film distributed by Netflix

Christie

Evil Under the Blu-Ray

September 15, 2020September 20, 2020 Michael Giltz 1 Comment Agatha Christie, Angela Lansbury, Death on the Nile, Elizabeth Taylor, Evil Under the Sun, Gal Gadot, Hercule Poirot, Kenneth Branagh, Miss Marple, Murder On The Orient Express, Peter Ustinov, The Mirror Crack'd

Why are Agatha Christie movies so bad?

Grown

FICTION Young Adult

Groomed

September 15, 2020 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Grown, Tiffany B. Jackson

YA novel ‘Grown’ highlights the dangers for teenage Black girls in relationships with older men

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