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- Both my kids played soccer for years, with my son eventually joining a traveling team and both of them eventually growing out of it. But recently I was overjoyed to get World Cup updates from them both,...
What Happens To Storytelling In the Age Of Deepfakes?
The first season of the Peacock/BBC original “The Capture,” an excellent series starring Holliday Grainger, premiered in 2019 — by 2022, not only did it seem surprising that the series was returning to life after such a long delay, it came...
Film: The "Baby Assassins" Trilogy Finds Me.
I have been circling the Japanese “Baby Assassins” trilogy of films longer than expected. Checking notes, the number of urgent entries about needing to watch it go back a long, long time. Clearly, I had seen something that was a direct hit...
From Station To Station, No Direction Home.
Something On Sunday explores essays from the arts to existentialism to ziggurats.
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I was in an Uber, on a weekend, heading to Jimmy Kimmel’s house. Weekends are a much-needed wind down for him and...
"Legends" ends as one of 2026's best series, rewatching the brilliant "No Other Choice," plus "Alice and Steve" mostly wins the "wrong-com" idea.
It’s already been a strong year for television and it’s not quite half over, but of course we don’t really count what year a series came out when looking for quality around these parts.
That said, “Legends,” a British series set in the ear...
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