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Roy Crazy: Succession’s blockbuster return is a glimmer of hope for the monoculture

Roy Crazy: Succession’s blockbuster return is a glimmer of hope for...

You’d have to live under a cavernous metaphorical rock to miss the fact that HBO’s Succession returns tomorrow night after exactly two…
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‘No Time To Die’ almost solves the problem with Bond

‘No Time To Die’ almost solves the problem with Bond

Absolutely no series of films, certainly none that are 25 films and almost 60 years deep, feels as plug and play as James Bond. The girl…
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The 100 Best TV Episodes Of The Century

The 100 Best TV Episodes Of The Century

As television has made greater leaps towards becoming the dominant creatively-driven screen format, individual standout episodes have…
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The Most Exciting Things Coming Between Now And The End Of 2021

The Most Exciting Things Coming Between Now And The End Of 2021

It’s Autumn! And despite a Covid backlog yet to fully be unleashed — of films, albums and other stuff that got delayed because of…
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‘Mr. Corman’ understands that 2021 is the scariest thing in the world

‘Mr. Corman’ understands that 2021 is the scariest thing in the world

In the final episode of Apple TV’s Mr. Corman, a ten-part series created by and starring Joseph Gordon Levitt, a character proposes that…
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Bad Influence: The Big Lie of Blockbuster ‘Director Bullsh*t’

Bad Influence: The Big Lie of Blockbuster ‘Director Bullsh*t’

In a blockbuster ecosystem where studio mandate has final cut and control freak super-producers can seize the editing suite from a…
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The 10 Best Franchise Films Of The Century

The 10 Best Franchise Films Of The Century

Films can be great on different terms. Whenever someone puts together a list of ‘the best films’ in a given period, it’ll typically — and…
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Succession
‘Succession’ pits broken people against ‘attack children’ in its best episode yet

‘Succession’ pits broken people against ‘attack children’ in its best episode yet

The second season of Netflix’s brilliant animated comedy Big Mouth pulled a sad trick on the audience, distracting us with the male…
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“Arrested Development on coke”: HBO’s ‘Succession’ is the show of the summer

“Arrested Development on coke”: HBO’s ‘Succession’ is the show of the summer

Four uncooperative, inept siblings. One rich, possibly criminally-liable father. A buffoon son-in-law with a heap of insecurities. A naive…
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The 100 Best Films of the 2010s

The 100 Best Films of the 2010s

It happened pretty fast but the decade has entered its final stretch; we’re almost into the 2020s. As we head into Autumn we’ve decided to…
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The Best Television of the 2010s

The Best Television of the 2010s

We’re about a month away from the end of this fabulous decade that was 2010–2019, and after announcing the Best Films of the Decade far…
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