Culture
The business of streaming 2022: ‘The one where the whole thing nearly collapsed’
December 6, 2022The Big Three streaming companies, Disney+, Netflix and HBO, have all sustained losses in both subscribers and market valuation over the last year.
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‘Bad Sisters’ is very good!
December 2, 2022After Thanksgiving—it’s the perfect time to reconsider what should be done about the painfully obnoxious right-wing relative who casts a pall over family festivities!
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‘Run Sweetheart Run’ review: A therapeutic #MeToo must-see horror film
December 1, 2022This movie bottles up the frustration over the sputtering #MeToo movement and anger at a system embedded with sexism and hurls it at the screen in all its (literal) bloody glory.
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Despite the ban, queers made important contributions to U.S. Communist movement
December 1, 2022Bettina Aptheker knows whereof she speaks. The daughter of Party leader Herbert Aptheker, and a 17-year member of the Party herself, she adopts the “new journalism” approach to history.
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‘Ubu the King,’ a raunchy play from 1896, revived in Culver City
November 23, 2022Its fanciful lunacy won me over and I ended up quite enjoying this 40th anniversary revival and tribute to one of L.A.’s greatest theaters.
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