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Streaming Picks: July 2023
Programming Note: Paramount+ has merged with the Showtime app, but subscribers don’t automatically get access to all Showtime programming without paying an additional fee. So while the app will henceforth be known (clunkily) as Paramount+ with Showtime, I’m only using … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews, Television
Tagged amazon, disney, hulu, knock at the cabin, max, netflix, paramount, peacock, prime, showtime, what we do in the shadows
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Streaming Picks: June 2023
FILMSTop PicksTár – Prime Video 6/6Avatar: The Way of Water – Disney+ and Max 6/7While I wouldn’t consider Lydia Tár a “Strong Female Lead,” Cate Blanchett gave one of last year’s best performances in one of the best movies of … Continue reading
The List: Top 10 ‘The Office’ Episodes
The Office ended 10 years ago this week. I was an early champion of the show, but fell off in its third season when the show sent Jim to Stamford, then back to Scranton with his new girlfriend Karen (Rashida … Continue reading
The List: Top 10 ‘Happy Endings’ Episodes
One of the finest sitcoms of the 2010s ended 10 years ago this week. Happy Endings took the same set-up and premise as Friends, but updated it for Millennials, tripling the number of jokes per minute. Yet it constantly seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Television
Tagged happy endings
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Streaming Picks: May 2023
Programming Note: On Tuesday, May 23, HBO Max will become Max. Warner Bros. Discovery has promised a seamless transition, so theoretically anything added to HBO Max this month will also be on Max thereafter. But there’s always a possibility some … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews, Television
Tagged amazon, babe, documentary now, great, hbo max, hulu, i think you should leave, man called otto, netflix, paramount, peacock, prime, tim robinson
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20 After 20: 2002
20. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (dir. Joel Zwick)In the running for my most rewatched film ever, Nia Vardalos’s sweet-natured rom-com has endured. While it lacks the sophistication of some of the genre’s masterpieces, its comic timing and sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Best Of, Film
Tagged 13 conversations about one thing, 24 hour party people, 25th hour, about schmidt, adaptation, bowling for columbine, catch me if you can, chicago, far from heaven, grey zone, lord of the rings, monsoon wedding, my big fat greek wedding, pianist, punch drunk love, quiet american, road to perdition, signs, spirited away, talk to her, y tu mama tambien
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Oscar Re-Do: 2012
You know the drill: Winners in bold, then we break it down. BEST PICTUREAmourArgoBeasts of the Southern WildDjango UnchainedLes MisérablesLife of PiLincolnSilver Linings PlaybookZero Dark Thirty Should have won: Zero Dark ThirtyNot even nominated: Cloud Atlas One of the best … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Reviews
Tagged amour, django unchained, les miserables, lincoln, master, silver linings playbook, skyfall, wreck it ralph, zero dark thirty
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Oscar Guide 2023
If you asked me this time last year if a movie starring a mostly Asian/Asian-American cast, directed by the guys who made the (admittedly awesome) farting corpse movie, would be sweeping the Oscars, I’d have laughed in your face. But … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews
Tagged all quiet on the western front, avatar, babylon, banshees of inisherin, black panther, elvis, everything everywhere all at once, hbo, navalny, netflix, pinocchio
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