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Final Season of “Hacks” Ends a Perfect Run for HBO Max Hit
Great stars always leave the fans wanting more.End with your best joke, so they’re still laughing when the lights come up. While there’s a temptation to lament losing a great comedy, “Hacks” hasn’t lost a step since its...
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AMC’s “The Audacity” Keeps Aiming for Big-Tech Mockery, But Mostly Bums Us Out
In the wake of shows like “Succession,” “Industry,” and “Billions,” it makes sense for the big cable networks to continue mining data for novel ways to explore the absurdity and nihilism of today’s tech-fueled apocalypse. It’s an environment writer...
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“The Boys” Remains the Most Pressing Superhero Show of Our Time With Electric Final Season
In recent years, tentpole television has played it painstakingly safe with its final seasons. Instead of pushing boundaries and leaving dedicated viewers with something worthwhile to chew on, shows like “Stranger Things” and even “Game of Thrones” have relied...
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“Star Wars” Keeps Its Animation on the Dark Side (Literally) with “Maul – Shadow Lord”
With the “Star Wars” galaxy now under the leadership of Lucasfilm president and former animator Dave Filoni, it’s only fitting that his era’s first output is an animated series that he created about a legacy fan-favorite character. That, of...
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Comic/filmmaker and star Julio Torres spins immigration stress into satire
Torres talks about the obstacles he faced in the immigration system after he came to the U.S. from El Salvador in his 20s. His new HBO Max show is Color Theories. Originally broadcast...
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Season 2 of “Your Friends & Neighbors” Serves Another Course of Hamm-Flavored Suburban Malaise
Jon Hamm’s impressively varied and prolific career outside of “Mad Men” has leaned heavily into roles where he’s enforcing the law, breaking it, or doing both at once. Whether Hamm is playing FBI agents in “The Town,” “Bad Times...
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Full Schedule for Ebertfest 2026 Released and Individual Tickets Now On Sale
Individual tickets for Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, widely known as Ebertfest, are now on sale. The festival’s 27th and final edition, “The Last Dance,” in Champaign, Illinois, will take place Friday, April 17th, and Saturday, April 18th. Presented by Century Law Firm,...
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Hulu’s “The Testaments” Returns to Gilead For Another Timely Tale About Privilege and Complicity
They say that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Hulu’s first Margaret Atwood adaptation, the award-winning “The Handmaid’s Tale,” became a cultural phenomenon when it premiered in 2017, its exploration of extreme misogyny, authoritarianism, and the battle...
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“It Became a Dark Place”: Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear on “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Cinematic depictions of Native tragedy have historically been fraught with questions over authenticity, realism, and empathy; this was doubly true of Martin Scorsese‘s most recent film to date, 2023’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which dramatized David Grann’s eponymous...
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What the US military could do if Iran fails to meet Trump’s ultimatum
But Trump has backed himself into a corner with threats that the US military can't feasibly carry out in...