Dennis Broe
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‘Fearless’ and ‘Perry Mason’: How to end and not end a season
August 27, 2020There was a lot of fanfare recently around the wrapping up of HBO’s remake of Perry Mason, which unfortunately has a botched ending.
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‘Black Suns’ at Louvre Lens: Coal mines transformed into gift shops
August 21, 2020This transformation is strikingly visible in the setting in which the painting is displayed, that is, in Lens’s transformation from mining to museum economy.
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‘Green Frontier’ and ‘Wild District’: Bolivarian vs. Bolsonarian revolution
August 19, 2020Two series from Colombia, Green Frontier and Wild District, both Netflix originals and both done by the same production house, Dynamo, stake out the left and right of Colombian politics.
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Comcast and NBC Universal’s Peacock: A strange bird
July 31, 2020These “hyperconglomerates,” media giants combining telecommunications, satellite systems, and digital delivery and transmissions, are often reactionary in nature.
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They stream movies, don’t they? ‘City of Tiny Lights’ and ‘Hamilton’
July 14, 2020For 4th of July weekend, Disney+ served up an exquisitely well-filmed but troubling version of the mega New York theater hit Hamilton about the country’s founding fathers.
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Perry Mason, then and now
July 7, 2020Matthew Rhys from The Americans is pitch perfect in the role of the talented but befuddled and mixed-up Mason.
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‘Space Force’: What could have been ‘Dr. Strangelove’ is instead ‘McHale’s Navy’
June 30, 2020Netflix’s Space Force is tepid, often unfunny, not skewering or lambasting but often romanticizing of what the U.S. is doing in space.
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Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Black Lives Matter meets ‘Rambo’ [spoilers]
June 25, 2020Self-conscious about the idiocy of the Rambo myth where Stallone returns to fight the war and this time to win, the film nevertheless falls into the same racist and imperialist Hollywood tropes.
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