Alfonso Cuarón’s new film, Roma, released on Netflix, follows approximately a year in the life of a young woman, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) who serves as a maid for a family in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City in the 1970’s.  The film is based on Mr. Cuarón’s mem

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Set twenty-five years after the original Mary Poppins, the new film Mary Poppins Returns picks up the story of the Banks children, Jane and Michael, now all grown up.  Michael has three children, but his wife has recently passed away.  Jane has basically moved in with him, but still

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Because (or perhaps despite) The Wire ruining television for me forever (because nothing will ever be as good), I am a forever fan of writer and showrunner David Simon, and I will follow him to whatever projects he undertakes.  I have never once regretted it.  The Deuce, which Mr. S

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Looking at my “to-read” bookshelf a few months ago, I realized that I had a backlog of unread Star Trek novels from the past few years.  Most of these were stand-alone novels set during the Original Series era.  It wasn’t that I was uninterested in reading those no

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In Netflix’s new film The Outlaw King, actor Chris Pine reunites with 2016’s Hell or High Water director David Mackenzie for this tale of Robert the Bruce’s rebellion against the British in the 1300’s.  The film opens with the surrender of several Scottish lor

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I am not a huge Rocky fan.  I’d seen and enjoyed the original Rocky, but to this day I’ve never seen any of the sequels.  I wouldn’t have expected that I’d even have gone to see a Rocky spin-off, let alone that I’d have enjoyed it.  But I was blown awa

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