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The Talkies
The Talkies
by | Nov 14, 2022

On an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the best sitcom of the 1970s, Ted Baxter (Ted Knight), the…

by | Nov 7, 2022

The only new movie that I had planned to see this month was Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (not really). But…

by | Oct 28, 2022

Five hours, baby. Of course, by Netflix standards, it’s the flicker of an eyelid, the flap of a hummingbird’s wing,…

by | Oct 9, 2022

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;…

by | Oct 5, 2022

What’s amusing about Bros — the new gay romantic comedy from the makers of blockbuster straight romantic comedies — is…

by | Oct 4, 2022

When a film intended as an exercise in cultural criticism fails, it is almost always because the director overinvests in…

by | Oct 4, 2022

Marilyn Monroe is such a well-covered tragic figure, especially for the obvious dichotomy between her sex goddesshood and purer Norma…

by | Sep 30, 2022

“It’s the smell, Jeff. I keep getting complaints.”  – Landlord of convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer In the first episode…

by | Sep 27, 2022

This commentary (I won’t call it a review) requires this preliminary disclaimer: I have a business connection with the Norwegian…

by | Sep 19, 2022

Many years ago, I lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for over a decade, and during that period…

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