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‘Power to the People’: John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s NYC Rent Party on the Big Screen

April 24, 2026April 27, 2026 Jim Allen 2 Comments 1970s music, Allen Ginsberg, anti war music, archival film, audience participation, avant-garde music, benefit concerts, Come Together song, concert documentary, concert films, counterculture, culture criticism, David Peel, Elephants Memory, experimental music, film criticism, Geraldo Rivera, Give Peace a Chance, glam rock, hippie era, Imagine song, Instant Karma song, John Lennon, live albums, live performance, Madison Square Garden, Melanie, Music Documentary, music performance review, New York City Music, One to One concert, Phil Spector, Plastic Ono Band, political music, post Beatles era, Power to the People, primal scream therapy, punk precursors, restored footage, Roberta Flack, rock history, Sean Lennon, Sha Na Na, Simon Hilton, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Vietnam War protest, Willowbrook State School, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono art

Expanded footage of a historic benefit show is manna for Beatlemaniacs

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‘IF’: Imaginary Friends and Real Ryan Reynoldses

April 19, 2026April 19, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments

John Krasinski’s 2024 bomb hits Netflix and explodes into life

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‘The Testaments’ Brings Us Back to Gilead

April 15, 2026April 27, 2026 William Schwartz 0 Comments book adaptation, Bruce Miller, Chase McKenzie, dystopian fiction, Elisabeth Moss, feminist dystopia, Gilead, Hulu, Lucy Halliday, Margaret Atwood, Mayday, political drama, prestige TV, series sequel, streaming TV, Television Review, The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments, TV criticism

In the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller take us to finishing school

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In ‘Cinematic Immunity,’ Film Crews Get the Final Edit

April 14, 2026April 17, 2026 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments behind the scenes filmmaking, Cinematic Immunity, cinematography stories, Cruising film, film crew interviews, film crews, film industry culture, film production, film set anecdotes, Gillian G Gaar, Hollywood labor, Hollywood vs New York, independent filmmaking history, Michael Lee Nirenberg, movie production history, New York filmmaking, oral history books, Saturday Night Fever, The Godfather, The Sopranos, union film crews

A new history of filmmaking brings stories of the sets

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Plastic is Shrinking America’s Dicks

April 12, 2026May 13, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments Cancer Alley, documentary film reviews, Dr. Shanna Swan, endocrine disruptors, environmental documentary, green chemistry, infertility crisis, John Warner, Josh Murphy, Louie Psihoyos, Mark Monroe, Netflix, petrochemical industry, plastic pollution, public health, Rise St. James, Sharon Lavigne, The Plastic Detox

‘The Plastic Detox’ tries to move the needle using shock tactics and reality TV tropes

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Houston, We Have Engagement!

April 8, 2026April 11, 2026 Dr. Carlos Flores 0 Comments Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Amy Farrah Fowler, Artemis II, Buzz Aldrin, Christina Koch, Gayle King, Howard Wolowitz, Illuminati, Jeff Bezos, Jeremy Hansen, Joe Rogan, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flyn, Lauren Sánchez, Leonard Hofstadter, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Netflix, Pedro Almodóvar, Pink Floyd, Raj Koothrappali, Reality TV, Reid Wiseman, Trekkies, Victor Glover

Netflix streams Artmeis II as a NASA reality show

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In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice

April 7, 2026April 10, 2026 Elaine Margolin 1 Comment American literature, autofiction, Ben Lerner, book reviews 2026, books about identity, books about language, contemporary fiction, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Jewish writers, literary fiction, new literary releases, novels about family, parent child relationships, psychological fiction, Transcription A Novel

Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but

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Taylor Tomlinson Looks for Faith and Punchlines in ‘Prodigal Daughter’

April 5, 2026April 8, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments after midnight, Bill Hicks, Christianity, comedy specials 2026, Doug Stanhope, Fountain Street Church, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Carlin, Grand Rapids Michigan, Netflix, Parfyon Rogozhin, Prince Myshkin, Prodigal Daughter, religion and comedy, religious satire, Stand Up Comedy, Taylor Tomlinson, The Idiot

In an age of disaster, maybe comedy and religion can collaborate on community

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A ‘Giant’ Arrives on Broadway

April 5, 2026April 8, 2026 Michael Washburn 1 Comment 1983 setting, American vs British Jews, Antisemitism, author controversy, Aya Cash, book publishing crisis, Booker Prize history, British theatre, class dynamics Britain, Farrar Straus, freedom of speech vs responsibility, Giant play, Great Missenden, Holocaust survivor narrative, Israel criticism, Israel Lebanon conflict, Jessie Stone character, jewish identity, John Lithgow, Lebanon War 1982, Literary adaptation, Mark Rosenblatt, Middle East politics, PR crisis, public backlash, publishing industry, Roald Dahl, The Witches, Tom Maschler

A new play about the Roald Dahl scandal lands stateside after sold-out West End run

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Everything That’s Streaming in April 2026

March 31, 2026April 6, 2026 Jake Harris 0 Comments adaptation, animation, Apple TV Plus, beef, Charlize Theron, Comedy, Criterion Channel, Disney Plus, documentary, drama, Elle Fanning, entertainment guide, Euphoria, Fantasy, Hacks, HBO Max, Hulu, Jonah Hill, Keanu Reeves, Malcolm In The Middle, Netflix, Paramount Plus, Peacock, Pop Culture, Prime Video, Sci-fi, season premieres, series premieres, Shudder, Stranger Things, Streaming, Television, The Boys, thriller, yahya abdul-mateen ii

Malcolm is back in the middle, available alongside ‘Hacks,’ Siths, Heroes and FIFA World Cup tie ins

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‘The A.I. Doc’ Explores the Perils and the Promise of AI

March 27, 2026March 31, 2026 Stephen Garrett 1 Comment

Doomers and believers all have their say in this timely documentary

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Guys Like Us, Baby We Were ‘Born to Bowl’

March 25, 2026March 30, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments A24, A24 television, Americana, Anthony Simonsen, Ben Stiller, blue collar America, Born to Bowl, bowling, Brian Lazarte, Cameron Crowe (bowler), Chicago, documentary series, E.J. Tackett, Hard Knocks, HBO, HBO documentaries, James Lee Hernandez, Jason Belmonte, Kyle Troup, Liev Schreiber, McMillion$, niche sports, professional bowling, Red Hour Films, sports documentary, underdog sports, White Sox, working class stories

A Ben Stiller produced documentary series follows a bunch of pro-bowlers

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Why ‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ is More Moving Than You’d Expect

March 24, 2026March 26, 2026 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980s music, addie brik, alternative rock history, anthem band, anthony kiedis, artist friendships, band brotherhood, band origin stories, ben feldman, biographical documentaries, drug culture in music, fairfax high school, flea, founding members rhcp, freaky styley, funk rock, gary allen performance artist, George Clinton, grandmaster flash the message, hillel slovak, jack irons, los angeles music scene, music biopics, music documentaries, music history documentaries, Netflix documentaries, red hot chili peppers, rock band documentaries, rock documentaries, rock nostalgia, what is this band

Friendship, fame, and fatality are part of the band’s origin story

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The Sci Fi Short Story That Rocked Wall Street

March 22, 2026May 13, 2026 Dan Friedman 0 Comments ai agents, ai and labor, ai disruption, ai economy, AI ethics, ai risk, artificial intelligence, automation, capitalism, citrini research, consumer economy, Darwin, dystopian fiction, financial commentary, financial markets, Freud, future of work, Galileo, ghost gdp, H.G. Wells, John Wyndham, Jonathan Swift, King Kong, market panic, science fiction, speculative fiction, Taylorism, the 2028 global intelligence crisis, unemployment, Wall Street, white collar jobs

Citrini became famous overnight by its dystopian tale of artificial intelligence

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Sanderson Fandom in Turmoil as Iconic Soundtrack Faces Takedown

March 20, 2026March 23, 2026 J. Barnes 3 Comments Apple TV Plus, black piper, book soundtrack, Brandon Sanderson, cosmere, dragonsteel, fan backlash, fandom culture, fantasy adaptations, film adaptation, genre fandom, intellectual property, kaladin soundtrack, michael bahnmiller, Mistborn, music rights, shallans lullaby, spotify streaming, stormlight archive, stormlight archive adaptation, streaming rights, the way of kings, tv adaptation

After Apple bought the rights to The Stormlight Archive, lawyers have threatened a beloved fan ‘book soundtrack’