When I read the news that Jane Birkin had died, my first thought was of the scene in Agnès Varda’s “Jane…
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How does one sum up a life as momentous as that of Tony Bennett? He won 20 Grammys, two Emmys,…
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You just can’t kill Philip J. Fry. When Matt Groening premiered “Futurama” on FOX back in 1999, he probably foresaw…
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Genre television has always been on the outs. While many have maintained strong ratings and critical success, more often than…
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It is quieter at San Diego Comic-Con this year. The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes mean that the headline-making events in…
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The seven films Randolph Scott made with Budd Boetticher, five of which for Columbia with producer Harry Joe Brown, are…
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When it first premiered on HBO in the spring of 2022, “Minx”—a comedy set in 1970s Los Angeles about the…
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For all the pre-release speculation about how analog epic-maker Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” would re-create the explosion of the first atomic bomb, the film’s most…
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The Harlem Festival of Culture, a three-day festival celebrating Black music and artistry sparked by Questlove’s Oscar-winning documentary, “Summer of Soul”,…
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It takes a certain kind of person to be a free diver. All need not apply. Not everyone wants to…
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