Amazon Prime’s Good Omens: An Ominous Good Time
Bart Sullivan (compiled & edited, with footnotes of an educational nature and precepts for the wise) It all started with an apple—that, and the lending of a flaming sword. Years […]
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Cobra Kai Waxes (On and Off) Nostalgic
In the summer of 1984, moviegoers were introduced to a young everyman by the name of Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) in The Karate Kid. LaRusso, having moved from the east to […]
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Larson’s Unicorn Store Has Everything You Need
As some people age, there are always things they wish could have been different, things they wish they could have had in their youth because it may have changed their […]
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Lighting HBO Films on Fire: Fahrenheit 451
One important question surrounds the recent HBO Films adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451: how did actors the caliber of Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon working with celebrated […]
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Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
It’s possible that John Krasinski’s name will never be mentioned without also mentioning Jim Halpert, his character in the U.S. version of The Office, but he continues to take on roles […]
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Pastiche Triumvirate: Netflix’s When We First Met
Ari Sandel’s When We First Met—a 2018 Netflix comedy film starring Adam Devine of Workaholics fame—is equal parts Bedazzled (2000), Groundhog Day (1993), and Big (1988). Although this may sound a bit disjointed, Sandel seems to have found a […]
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Veena Sud’s Seven Seconds: A New “Limited Series” on Netflix
Veena Sud rose to prominence in 2011 as the creator of AMC’s The Killing, which started out as a dark crime procedural that came off like Twin Peaks without the surrealism. The dead […]
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Mrs. Maisel’s Second Season Is Golden
There are few instances of television series creators succeeding with multiple series, but Amy Sherman-Palladino & Daniel Palladino, after their success with Gilmore Girls, have once again created a powerful cult […]
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