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‘The Casual Vacancy’ Review: J.K. Rowling Adaptation Tackles Politics In...
In The Casual Vacancy, an HBO/BBC three-part miniseries adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s coolly received first post-Harry Potter novel, the dark forces threatening the idyllic English village of Pagford...
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The Young And The Brainless: E!’s ‘Rich Kids Of Beverly Hills’ Provides...
Every single frame in E!’s season 3 premiere of Rich Kids of Beverly Hills was completely insufferable, bursting at the seams with the narcissism and absolute privilege of its titular subjects. I was...
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‘Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck’ Review: Intimate, Powerful Look Inside Nirvana...
Director Brett Morgen has managed to create one of the most incisive, revealing rock documentaries I’ve ever seen with HBO’s Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. I’ve always loved Nirvana – Nevermind was one...
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‘Odd Mom Out’ Series Premiere Review: Bravo’s New Sitcom Is Limp Satire
Ah, how exasperating it must be to inhabit the lowly world of Manhattan’s merely affluent when one’s in-laws reign supreme in the stratosphere of unfathomable wealth and power. Such is the setup for...
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The Vicious Hypocrisy Of The Duggars: Deflection Of Responsibility At Its Finest
When the story about sexual abuse in the Duggar home recently came to light, I can’t say I was surprised. A hyper-patriarchal family system wherein children are viewed as arrows in God’s quiver — why...
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‘Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’ Review: Legendary Troupe Dazzles At...
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is one of the most celebrated and iconic dance companies in the history of contemporary American dance, and their latest performance at the David H. Koch Theater...
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‘Orange Is The New Black’ Season 3, Episodes 1-3 Review: Mostly Strong Start...
Orange Is The New Black, Netflix’s greatest achievement in original programming thus far — no offense, Frank Underwood, please don’t push me into the path of an incoming train — has returned for its...
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‘The Making Of The Mob: New York’ Premiere Review: AMC Trots Out Lazy...
With The Making of the Mob: New York, AMC and producer Stephen David go where so many have gone before – just with less style, insight, entertainment value or any memorable performances. It tries to...
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Hail To The Trump: Imagining The 2016 Republican Primary Debates
“The Republican 2012 primary debates” – if you’re in need of a quick, cheap laugh at the expense of our nation’s plutocrats, you could always type those words into YouTube. Who could forget such...
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‘True Detective’ Season 2 Premiere Review: Disappointing Start To A New Season
“This is my least favorite life,” an ultra-depressing singer-songwriter declares in a dimly lit bar during the season two premiere of HBO’s True Detective. Well, I can relate – this was probably my...
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‘The Brink’ Series Premiere Review: Comedy That Doesn’t Make You Laugh,...
If you’re going to satirize America’s foreign policy in the Middle East and the geopolitics of our uneasy relationship with Pakistan, you better be willing to go for the jugular and delve into some...
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Yellow Journalism 101: Fox News Unashamedly Propagandizes Charleston Shooting
To anyone with a functioning brain and heart and the ability to spend five minutes undergoing even a cursory examination of the facts, it was quickly made clear that the recent murders at the Emanuel...
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‘Mr. Robot’ Series Premiere Review: USA Introduces Bold, Timely Hacker Thriller
“What I’m about to tell you is top secret — a conspiracy bigger than all of us. There’s a powerful group of people out there that are secretly running the world. I’m talking about the guys no one...
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‘Amy’ Movie Review: Harrowing Documentary Depicts Amy Winehouse’s Tragic Fate
If ever there was a contemporary entertainment icon that exposed the heart of darkness that lies deep within our celebrity culture, it was Amy Winehouse. Like Kurt Cobain before her, whose own tragic...
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The Amy Schumer Controversy: ‘Washington Post’ Op-Ed Leads The Witch-Hunt
“This rhetoric isn’t just ugly. It contributes to a worldview that justifies a broken immigration system, mass incarceration, divestment from inner city communities, that rationalizes inequality and...
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‘Primates Of Park Ave’ Review: Tale Of Upper East Side Mothers Makes For Easy...
With Primates of Park Ave: A Memoir, author Wednesday Martin has attempted to capitalize on the resurgent fetishization of Manhattan’s enclaves of extreme wealth and privilege to create a hybrid...
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Bill Cosby’s Utter Fall From Grace: Why Just Him And Not Other Abusive Men In...
As the Bill Cosby scandal continues to unfold, with the recent release of excerpts from a 2005 deposition of Cosby revealing that he admitted to procuring Quaaludes with the intent of offering them to...
View Article‘The Jim Gaffigan Show’ Series Premiere Review: Lighthearted Sitcom Hard Not...
With the series premiere of The Jim Gaffigan Show, famous comedian Jim Gaffigan has successfully mined his unconventional, food-obsessed stage persona to create a much more conventional, staid sitcom...
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‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Series Premiere Review: Everything From The Title To...
As soon as Dave Grohl opened his bearded mouth to proclaim that without The Heathens, the fictional rock band fronted by Johnny Rock (Denis Leary) — yep, his last name is Rock — in FX’s atrociously...
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‘Mr. Robot’ Mid-Season Review: How Does The Summer’s Surprise Hit Measure Up...
Mr. Robot seemingly came out of nowhere to become this summer’s most exciting, talked about show. With the end of season five of Game of Thrones and the disappointing second season of True Detective,...
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‘Death Of The Persian Prince’ Review: Powerful New Play Exposes The Tragic...
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, homosexuality is not just a cultural taboo that causes a gay person to be ostracized, disowned by one’s family and friends and subjected to discrimination and violence...
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‘The Absolute Brightness Of Leonard Pelkey’ Review: Entertaining,...
I have a confession to make – I’ve never seen a one-person show before, and I never thought I would be much inclined to, if I’m being honest. Why watch one person exert the heroic amount of energy and...
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‘_Jailbreak!_*tm’ Review: An Absurd Comedy And Revelatory Examination of Freedom
There are great things happening in the DIY arts and performance scene in Bushwick, Brooklyn, where a close-knit, egalitarian community of artists of all mediums produce and perform content with...
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