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Ever since seeing A Complete Unknown at my local multiplex in early 2025, I've found myself on a serious Bob Dylan jag. Inspired by Decider contributor Jordan Hoffman's excellent essay on ACU companion pieces for the Dylan-curious, I fired up Dont Look Back (no apostrophe!), the 1967 documentary by D.A. Pennebaker that mostly focuses in on Dylan's...
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Netflix's No Good Deed has every opportunity to be bad. Any time your cast is as talented as this show's is -- the main ensemble includes Ray Romano, Linda Cardellini, Lisa Kudrow, Owen Wilson, Denis Leary, and more -- it's my kneejerk reaction to wonder what they're trying to cover up by infusing it with star power. Shockingly, not a concern...
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The 1981 Wonderland Massacre is one of the most lurid true crime tales of our age, not simply because of the viciousness of the crimes — 4 people found bludgeoned to death in an apartment in the Hollywood Hills — but because of the tangled web of illegal drugs, pornography, organized crime, and celebrity that it spun out of. The crime inspired ...
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At face value, Disclaimer feels like a run-of-the-mill drama series about a woman who did something so terrible two decades ago, only for it to come back to bite her in the ass later in life. Under the surface, however, the Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline-led drama is layered and intricate, only revealing itself in the final episode as a story...
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The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece on PBS knows exactly what it is and that is the coziest of cozy murder mystery shows. Set in the affluent town of Marlow, the series opens with retired archeologist Judith Potts (Samantha Bond) overhearing something dreadful during a swim in a tributary. Her neighbor has been shot! When the police drag their...
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CBS's new Matlock series is not your typical lazy reboot. Sure, Oscar-winner Kathy Bates plays a lawyer named Madeline "Matty" Matlock and she's got a pocket full of Werther's, but the joy of Matlock is how it subverts your expectations at every turn. Created by Jane the Virgin mastermind Jennie Snyder Urman, Matlock's very first episode reveals...
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Network TV is having a moment, and Elsbeth is leading the charge. The CBS procedural, which premiered last year and returns for Season 2 tomorrow, October 17, is a spin-off of both The Good Wife and The Good Fight that follows Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) as she moves on from her successful career as an attorney in Chicago to oversee a...
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