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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Megan Hillery Sunday |Sarah Gorr |Chris Ludovici
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>There’s probably something meaningful to say about the current state of politics and the seeming revival of the swords and sandals genre; unfortunately, Peacock’s new series Those About to Die engenders very little desire to engage with its material on any deeper level.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Megan Hillery Sunday
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>For a large segment of Gen X and Millennials, legal thrillers have an undeniable comfort food quality. These generational cohorts grew up as authors like Scott Turow and John Grisham rose to prominence, dominating best-seller lists. With that beachhead established, it wasn’t long before the legal thriller came to screens, large and small, via adaptations.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Megan Hillery Sunday |Gena Radcliffe
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>It is not typical when I review a new season of an established series that I find myself utterly lost and befuddled. Nonetheless, Sweet Tooth Season 3 earned that rare achievement. I retained the broad strokes. Gus (Christian Convery), a hybrid child, travels a US ravaged by the Sick with Big Man Tommy Jepperd (Nonso Anozie).
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Gena Radcliffe |Megan Hillery Sunday
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>I have to admit, I wasn’t really on board with Hollywood’s attempt to make Glen Powell the Next Big Thing. I thought there was something a little generic and forgettable about him, like he had been grown in a laboratory that specialized in manufacturing blandly handsome blonde actors. But I’m not too proud to admit that I was wrong, at least as far as Hit Man is concerned.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Peter Sobczynski |Megan Hillery Sunday |Gena Radcliffe
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>Two questions face most rational people when confronting the existence of Bad Boys: Ride or Die. To the first, why did the filmmakers give it such an anonymous title? Especially while the previous installment had the seemingly more apt name Bad Boys For Life? For that, there is no answer. To the second? Yes, there is a joke involving Will Smith and someone getting slapped.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Megan Hillery Sunday |Gena Radcliffe |Tim Stevens
Read also: popular streaming services that still offer a free trial>“Brief, they made a monk of me;I did renounce the world, its pride and greed,Palace, farm, villa, shop, and banking-house,Trash, such as these poor devils of MediciHave given their hearts to—all at eight years old.”So jovial monk Fra Lippo Lippi tells his listeners in Robert Browning’s poem of the same name.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Justin Harrison |Tim Stevens |Megan Hillery Sunday
Read also: the best live TV streaming services with free trial> The word for Rose Glass (Saint Maud) and Weronika Tofilska’s Love Lies Bleeding is “precise.” From the individual and combined performances of leads Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian (whose turn as a cunning Imperial agent was a bright spot in the often dreary third season of The Mandalorian) to DP Ben Fordesman’s chameleonic camera work and hair department lead Megan Daum’s wide-ranging design work, everyone on the project knew...
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Megan Hillery Sunday
Read also: the best live TV streaming services with free trial>The expression, “The book was better,” has become a truism in adaptation, an assumption where the few exceptions only prove the rule. But what’s a creator to do when the source material is deeply flawed? If you’re Apples Never Fall creator Melanie Marnich, you make several cosmetic changes to Liane Moriarty’s novel. The drama moves from Australia to West Palm Beach.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Lisa Laman |Tim Stevens |Megan Hillery Sunday
Read also: the best live TV streaming services with free trial>For the first time in a few years, it looks like the Best Picture race is sewn up before Oscar night. Granted, that’s just the sort of thing movie characters say just before they get gobbled up by a scientifically enhanced shark or are shot down one day before retirement. Still, this year’s award season seems to be pointing towards a major Best Picture victory for Oppenheimer.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
thespool.net | Tim Stevens |Megan Hillery Sunday |Clint Worthington
Read also: the best live TV streaming services with free trial>It might help some to think of The Regime less as satire and more as dark farce with political opinions. Yes, there’s nothing especially new here in the series’ send-up of a paranoid autocrat, Chancellor Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet), whose withdrawal from the larger world has brought an ever-decreasing grasp of reality. But sometimes, it is enough for a story to just make you laugh and feel sick with fear for the real world.
