'Eternals': A Marvel movie for everyone who complains about Marvel movies
Updated: 2021-10-30 11:00:25
Indie director Chloe Zhao's influence is all over the new Marvel outing, a marked departure from the familiar MCU formula.
Welsh Incident
Updated: 2021-10-30 10:34:52Richard Burton was Welsh. Clearly then there’s no better than he to read Welsh Incident by Robert Graves (1895-1985). His baritone is perfect to convey the mood and the mystery. Welsh Incident 'But that was nothing to what things came… Continue reading →Her Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh
Updated: 2021-10-28 13:55:08
“Her Majesty’s Government”, also known as the United Kingdom Government, is certainly not all evil but considered comprehensively across the centuries and around the world, it is as evil as governments get. “Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service” administer civil… Continue reading →In 'Last Night In Soho,' Edgar Wright Goes Wrong
Updated: 2021-10-28 12:49:05Edgar Wright delivers a technically proficient but punishingly contrived genre mashup involving romance, time travel, murder, sex work and nostalgia.The Belmarsh Tribunal
Updated: 2021-10-26 19:26:39
What’s the Belmarsh Tribunal? Begin quote from Progressive International: Just after the bombshell revelations about the CIA plot to kidnap and assassinate WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange while he sought political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, the Progressive International… Continue reading →Epictetus the Stoic
Updated: 2021-10-26 14:02:59
Epictetus[1] summarized the Stoic attitude of taking responsibility for what was within one’s control thus: “I must die. If forthwith, I die; and if a little later, I will take lunch now, since the hour for lunch has come, and… Continue reading →'Succession' recap, Season 3, Episode 2: The sibling summit and the Trojan horse
Updated: 2021-10-25 02:11:26Kendall's siblings all gradually make their way to his headquarters to consider whether to join him against their father. Meanwhile, Logan negotiates with the only person he really fears.Morsing
Updated: 2021-10-22 10:39:47Percussion player from South India, Pirashanna Thevarajah plays ghatam and mridangam exceptionally well. Here he introduces another percussion instrument used in Carnatic classical music — the morsing.[1] NOTES: [1] It’s the same as jew’s harp. The wiki entry says: There… Continue reading →'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Ep. 6: Alex is gone, and so is Bradley's privacy
Updated: 2021-10-22 10:00:20Alex has vanished after Vegas, and the whole team wants to know where she went. Bradley and Laura find their relationship outed, and Stella struggles to find her footing.Let’s Go Brandon
Updated: 2021-10-21 13:22:17FJB'The French Dispatch' is a love letter to 'The New Yorker' — and to love itself
Updated: 2021-10-20 22:00:24Wes Anderson's meticulously-constructed tenth feature adopts the format of a New Yorker-like Sunday magazine supplement to tell three very different, but equally idiosyncratic, love stories.Change
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Isaac Asimov (1920 -1992) is arguably one of the greatest writers in the English language of the 20th century CE. He was prolific: “so prolific and diverse in his writing that his books span all major categories of the Dewey… Continue reading →'Succession' season 3 premiere recap: The Roys are racing to hell. Who's leading?
Updated: 2021-10-18 02:10:51The third season of Succession kicks off with the entire Roy family, plus some of their associates, on the road to ruin. We rank the characters in order of the speed at which they are hurtling along.'Dune': A sweeping, spectacular spice-opera — half of one, anyway
Updated: 2021-10-17 03:00:52Denis Villeneuve's take on Frank Herbert's novel of galactic intrigue and revolution manages to be both epic and introspective, though it doles out its story with gravid deliberateness.The joys of surprising yourself with 'The Last Duel' ... and 'Succession'
Updated: 2021-10-16 10:00:24There's a kind of satisfaction that comes from something living up to your expectations. But there's a different kind of pleasure that only being surprised by your own reactions can bring.What's making us happy: What you should watch, read and listen to this weekend
Updated: 2021-10-15 20:59:31Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Spirit Halloween videos, the podcast Suspect, and more.'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 5: What happens in Vegas
Updated: 2021-10-15 10:01:10Alex has pain and is a pain, Bradley works her way through her new relationship, Cory experiences a very late conversion to having a conscience, and Mitch wears cozy clothes in quarantine.Superman's son comes out as bisexual in a new comic. It's a big deal — sort of
Updated: 2021-10-11 15:15:00DC Comics announced that Superman's teenage son will be romantically involved with a male friend in a comic to be published in November. It's a growing trend.What's making us happy: A guide for your weekend watching, listening and reading
Updated: 2021-10-08 18:00:54Each week, the guests and hosts on Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. Today it's a new French horror movie, Titane, Netflix's Midnight Mass, and the web series Dimension 20.'The Morning Show' recap, Season 2, Episode 4: Why drag Neil Diamond into this?
Updated: 2021-10-08 10:00:25Bradley and Laura are sitting in a tree, T-A-L-K-I-N-G. Alex doesn't want to moderate the debate, and even though Bradley and Daniel both desperately want to moderate it, Cory only wants her.'Black Lady Therapists' are still a TV trope. But now they have more depth
Updated: 2021-10-08 09:00:00Ted Lasso, In Treatment and The White Lotus have demonstrated how to subvert this tired stereotype.'Ted Lasso' Season 2 finale recap: A big game, a big decision and a heel turn
Updated: 2021-10-08 07:00:55It's a wrap on Season 2, as Ted leads his team through one last game, Roy and Keeley feel their way through some challenges, and Sam makes a decision.