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Stream On: Revisiting the ‘Frasier’ reboot
Now that I’ve watched both seasons, I can report that 'Frasier' 2023 is just as smart and funny as 'Frasier' 1993.
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Stream On: The best of Father Brown
As with the Granada TV series ‘Sherlock Holmes,’ faithful to Conan Doyle, the 1974 ITV ‘Father Brown’ stories are my favorites.
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Stream On: ‘Mad Men’—Society talking to itself
‘Mad Men’ is about those who worked in advertising from 1960 to 1970—a decade which saw societal change as never before.
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Stream On: There are 8 million stories in ‘The Naked City’
This highly influential 1948 neorealist thriller was shot on location in the streets of New York City.
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November 2024

Stream On: Home for the holidays, on ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’
John Hughes’ 1987 road-trip comedy is a Thanksgiving tradition for me.
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Stream On: What have we here? ‘Detectorists’
An existential comedy about the quirky lads and lasses of the metal-detector community in a small English town.
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Stream On: ‘The Big Clock’ is hard-boiled poetry
Poet Kenneth Fearing’s fourth novel “The Big Clock” achieved much popularity and was released as a fine film noir by Paramount in 1948.
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Stream On: Deadlier than the male. ‘Lioness’
Lioness follows the life of Joe while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror.
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Stream On: is ‘Heaven’s Gate’ one of the worst—or best—movies ever?
The 2012 Criterion Collection cut of Michael Cimino’s 1980 box-office bomb is actually quite binge-worthy!
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October 2024

Stream On: Is it ever thus? ‘Gangs of New York’
It’s a little strange comparing ‘Gangs of New York’ to Scorsese’s more famous “gangs of New York” films, like ‘Goodfellas,’ but it stands up.
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Stream On: ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’—the un-filmable book
It might take thirteen hours to read the novel. Clint Eastwood made a two-hour film from it.
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Stream On: the armed robbery that made Atlanta the ‘Black Mecca’
‘Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist’ is the true story of Muhammad Ali’s return to boxing in 1970 and the notorious robbery at an after-party in…
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