Culture
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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‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’: A fine new documentary about a courageous life
July 6, 2020Elder Lewis told his young grandson that sometimes good trouble would be needed to do what is right.
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‘One Dyke’s Theater’ a monument to decades of lesbian life and creativity
July 6, 2020The book is suffused with an evident sense of accomplishment across a decades-long career, while at the same time showing moments of self-doubt and -criticism.
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‘The Twilight Zone’: ‘Meet in the Middle’ explores the price of human connection
July 2, 2020“What kind of compromise goes into a connection with another human being?” – ‘The Twilight Zone’
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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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