arts and entertainment
‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’
September 15, 2020All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.
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‘The Boys’ take on corporate superheroes for hire in comic TV adaptation
September 9, 2020The Boys is rip-roaring action fun, but also a very dark comedic look at U.S. corporate capitalism and mass-media politics.
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‘Crash Landing on You’: An axis of evolution
September 8, 2020A romantic comedy about North Korea? The country that wants to bomb us back to the stone age?
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Perry Mason and the Case of the Careless Remake
September 3, 2020The Perry Mason brand is the third most popular book series of all time, a show that ran in some form for over 35 years, and now the flagship production for HBO’s summer lineup.
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‘Epicentro’: Getting centered on Cuba in a new documentary film
August 31, 2020Epicentro is Sundance Award winner and Academy Award nominee Hubert Sauper’s vibrant, elegiac postcard from Cuba—its past, present and future.
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