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Tag: Netflix
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Things to keep you entertained while social distancing
Here are a few things I’ve been watching, reading, listening to and playing while I ration my toilet paper and wash my hands for the tenth time today.
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‘The Irishman’ struggles under the weight of its runtime
Take legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and give him one of the strongest casts you could imagine—Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and even Joe Pesci—and ‘The Irishman’ has to be one of the best films of the year, right? Well, it’s complicated.
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Stranger Things returns for season 3 on July 4
Stranger Things dropped a new trailer this morning for the third season, which hits Netflix July 4. The plucky gang are now teenagers and soon they’ll have to face off against something even worse than the otherworldly creatures we’ve seen before. Check out the trailer here.
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ saves the day for TV comic adaptations
‘The Umbrella Academy’ is a character-driven family drama about superheroes in a sea of action-driven epics, and that makes it a tremendously satisfying watch that hooks you from the start and keeps you engaged through the end credits of the final episode.
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‘Pee-wee’s Big Holiday’ a genuine delight
This week, the nostalgia gods at Netflix delivered Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, which sees the titular hero befriending Joe Manganiello and going on a road trip. The movie’s funniest moments aren’t a snarky nod to dated nostalgia, they’re genuine and played with conviction, reminding us why we’ve loved Pee-wee Herman for three decades and counting.
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‘The Battered Bastards of Baseball’ Premieres on Netflix July 11th
The Battered Bastards of Baseball is one of baseball’s last great, unheralded true stories. In 1973, Hollywood veteran Bing Russell (best known for playing Deputy Clem on “Bonanza”) created the only independent baseball team in America at the time, the legendary Portland Mavericks. Bing operated without a Major League affiliation while playing in a city…
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Guilty of loving ‘Orange Is the New Black’ season 2
On a beautiful summer day, there are a million things we could all be doing, but some of us may choose to be in lockdown for the second season of Orange Is The New Black. Sorry friends and family, but season one made me a junkie for this show, and Netflix just brought me my…
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Do the time for ‘Orange is the New Black’
The new Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is The New Black held me prisoner for two days as I binge-watched this addicting new series, based on the book of the same title, written by Piper Kenman. The book and the series are loosely based on Kenman’s real life experiences during her time in prison.
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HBO Go a step in the right direction
There are a million different ways to watch TV these days. You can record a show on your DVR, watch it on-demand on your cable box, view it on your computer or iPad using Hulu, Amazon Instant Video or Netflix and even go old school and buy it on DVD and Blu-Ray. And these are…
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Do you like monkey movies?
Netflix has introduced a new way of sorting films and saving preferences. The new model involves rating a giant series of keywords and categories so that their system can determine the exact type of movies you are most likely to add when you see them as suggestions. Here’s a sample of some of the new…
