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The biggest news this past week is that Warner Brothers/Discovery have shelved the Batgirl movie, despite the fact that it’s been filmed and was already post-production.  They say it won’t ever be completed and released.  This absolutely breaks my heart for everyone invo

After four years away, Donald Glover’s series Atlanta finally returned this spring with a ten-episode third season.  Earn (Donald Glover), Darius (Lakeith Stanfield), and Van (Zazie Beetz) are all in Europe, accompanying Alfred/Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) on tour.  This does

I’m a huge fan of Guy Ritchie’s first two films: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000).  Mr. Ritchie followed that up with Swept Away in 2o02, which remains the only film Mr. Ritchie has directed that I haven’t seen.  It was brutally panned

The Last Blockbuster is a documentary film, directed by Taylor Morden and written & produced by Zeke Kamm, that chronicles the rise and fall of the once-ubiquitous video rental company Blockbuster Video.  It also shines a light on the very last Blockbuster that is still open and

I enjoyed the first two Thor films, though in hindsight I think both count among the weaker of the MCU films.  Thor: Ragnarok, directed by Taika Waititi, was a glorious surprise and a thrilling reinvention of the Thor character.  It was epic and exciting and also deliriously funny a

Ewan McGregor’s performance as Obi-Wan Kenobi was one of my favorite aspects of the Star Wars prequel films (films that I otherwise tmostly disliked).  But I loved Mr. McGregor’s depiction of a young Obi-Wan, particularly in Episode III, when Obi-Wan was at the height of

I quite enjoyed the first season of Hacks, which was created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky.  The show centered on the unlikely, oil-and-water pairing of Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a Las Vegas stand-up comic who had been a star for decades, and Ava (Hannah Einbin