Aug 19 2019
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In 2008, documentarians Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert filmed the final days of an Ohio GM plant for the…
Noel Murray
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Lives in Arkansas, writes about movies, TV, music, comics, and more. Bylines in The A.V. Club, The Week, The Verge, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.
Aug 13 2019
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For its first 15 minutes, Viktor Kossakovsky’s documentary Aquarela plays like a combination of sobering…
Jul 16 2019
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By all rights, David Crosby should’ve died sometime in the 1980s. From his emergence in the mid-’60s as a guitarist…
Jun 18 2019
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Calling Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ documentary Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am just a “biography” of the Pulitzer-…
Jun 17 2019
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The cable and subscription streaming business lately seems determined to reinterpret an old saying: These days,…
May 30 2019
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One of the biggest mysteries of this first season of The Twilight Zone hasn’t had anything to do with alien…
May 28 2019
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It’s hard to believe there’s never been a true Elton John movie before Rocketman. Since starting his career as a…
May 23 2019
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This week’s The Twilight Zone, “The Blue Scorpion,” is the second to be credited solely to writer Glen Morgan, who’s…
May 22 2019
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One could argue—and I have—that the closest analogue to the great Norman Lear sitcoms of the early ‘70s wasn’t other…
May 16 2019
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The two best episodes of this new Twilight Zone so far have been “Replay” and “A Traveler,” neither of which have…
May 9 2019
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In the opening sequence of this week’s The Twilight Zone, an entry-level employee at a high-pressure company…
May 2 2019
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Some of the best Twilight Zones of the Rod Serling era are enduring classics not just because of what they were…
Apr 25 2019
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As far as the people who write movies and television are concerned, all children are either six or sixteen. The…
Apr 18 2019
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The first three episodes of the new Twilight Zone have all seen writers and directors wrestling with the legacy of…
Apr 11 2019
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It’s too bad The Twilight Zone didn’t debut last week with “Replay”… or didn’t at least choose it over “Nightmare At…
Apr 1 2019
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The latest iteration of the groundbreaking, influential TV classic The Twilight Zone takes some big chances with its…
Mar 4 2019
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Feb 27 2019
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Shutting down conspiracy theorists probably wasn’t high on director Todd Douglas Miller’s to-do list when he was…
Feb 25 2019
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In one of my favorite issues of one of my favorite superhero comics, Astro City—in volume one, #2, “The…
Feb 18 2019
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