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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

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‘The Baby Sitters Club’ Will be Your Best Friends Again

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 Kristin Clifford 0 Comments Marc Evan Jackson, Rachel Shukert, The Baby Sitters' Club

A modern TV update, but so much is still the same

The Secrets of ‘Floor is Lava’

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Floor is Lava, Wipeout

An interview with the hit game show’s executive producer

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Black Content That’s Not Just About Trauma

July 1, 2020July 3, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments A Black Lady Sketch Show, Ashley Nicole Black, Barack Obama, Eddie Murphy, F. Gary Gray, Gabrielle Dennis, Hollywood Shuffle, Inside Man, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michelle Obama, Omar Epps, Queen Latifah, Quinta Brunson, Robert Townsend, Robin Thede, Set It Off, Southside With You, Spike Lee, Taye Diggs, The Fits, The Watermelon Woman, The Wood, Vivica A. Fox

Sketch comedies, family dramas, surrealist horror, and a couple of heist flicks

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‘Shaun the Sheep’ Will Keep You Safe at Home

June 24, 2020June 25, 2020 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments Aardman, Chicken Run, Early Man, Nick Park, Shaun the Sheep, Tales From Mossy Bottom, Wallace and Gromit

All the Sheeple should be watching Aardman animation while the world burns

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‘365 Days’: the Weird Polish Soft-Porn Movie Dominating Netflix Right Now

June 17, 2020June 24, 2020 Laura Roberts 0 Comments 365 Days, 365 Dni, 50 Shades Of Grey, Atlantics, Duck Butter

A dark sexual fantasy that ignores the real-life rules

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‘8:46’: Dave Chappelle Stops Joking

June 15, 2020June 23, 2020 Michael Patrick Welch 0 Comments 8:46, Candace Owens, Dave Chappelle, Don Lemon, Laura Ingraham, Paul Mooney

A socially-distanced YouTube comedy special, with little comedy, is the culture right now

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Netflix, We Don’t Need Your ‘Help’

June 8, 2020June 17, 2020 Mia McCullough 0 Comments 13th, Criterion Collection, Just Mercy, Katherine Stockett, Netflix, The Help, Viola Davis, When They See Us

The distressing popularity of the ultimate white savior movie

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Is #BlackAF Black AF Enough?

May 14, 2020May 15, 2020 Michael Patrick Welch 0 Comments #BlackAF, Esa Lewis, Helen Kreiger, Kenya Barris, Rashida Jones

An interview with two of Kenya Barris’s writers

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‘Never Have I Ever’ Flips the Teen-Sex Comedy Script

May 13, 2020May 15, 2020 Paula Shaffer 0 Comments Andy Samberg, John McEnroe, Lang Fisher, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Mindy Kaling, Never Have I Ever

Mindy Kaling celebrates horny girl power

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‘Extraction’: Hemsworth Brings the Pain

May 8, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Anthony Russo, Chris Hemsworth, Extraction, Joe Russo, Rudhraksh Jaiswal

Stern faces, grim action in the most-popular Netflix movie ever

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Once Upon a Time in ‘Hollywood’?

May 7, 2020May 12, 2020 Lani Gonzalez 0 Comments Darren Criss, David Corenswet, Dylan McDermott, Holland Taylor, Hollywood, Ian Brenna, Jake Picking, Jeremy Pope, Jim Parsons, Joe Mantello, Laura Harrier, Patti LuPone, Ryan Murphy, Samara Weaving

Ryan Murphy’s latest series is a woke fantasy of postwar Tinseltown

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‘After Life’ Ponders Whether Life is Worth Living

May 4, 2020May 6, 2020 Maya Sinha 0 Comments After Life, Bill Murray, Extras, Groundhog Day, Kerry Godliman, Ricky Gervais, The Office

The Ricky Gervais Netflix comedy asks the tough questions

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‘Crip Camp’ Tells the Story of the Birth of the Disability Rights Movement

May 4, 2020May 8, 2020 Mia McCullough 0 Comments Barack Obama, Camp Jened, Crip Camp, Jim LeBrecht, Michelle Obama, Nicole Newenham

A life-affirming vision of social progress

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‘The Last Kingdom’ Has Arrived to Rescue Us

April 30, 2020May 7, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Alexander Dreymon, Bernard Cornwell, David Dawson, Game Of Thrones, Millie Brady, The Last Kingdom, Uthred, Xena

Destiny is all

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Scandinavian Noir is the Dark Escape We Need

April 30, 2020April 30, 2020 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments

Getting Hygge with Nordic TV

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