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Stream On: This is us, having a ton of fun—‘Modern Family’
One big (straight, gay, multi-cultural, blended, traditional) happy family.
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Stream On: Ernest Hemingway vs. Darryl F. Zanuck—‘The Sun Also Rises’
“We were part of that spectacular lost generation of young people who continued to live as though they were about to die.” Okay, sure.
Jul 19
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Stream On: Ernest Hemingway vs. Darryl F. Zanuck—‘The Sun Also Rises’
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Stream On: No country for young men—‘King’s Row’ puts the yikes! in melodrama
Where’s the rest of me? The dark side of provincial American life through the eyes of children as they grow up at the turn of the previous century.
Jul 12
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Stream On: No country for young men—‘King’s Row’ puts the yikes! in melodrama
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Stream On: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ takes up where ‘Life on Mars’ left off
Is she mad, dead … or has Detective Alex Drake really travelled back in time? Have we been here before?
Jul 5
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Stream On: ‘Ashes to Ashes’ takes up where ‘Life on Mars’ left off
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June 2024
Stream On: ‘Life on Mars’ is even stranger than its title
Is he mad, in a coma … or has Detective Sam Tyler really travelled back in time?
Jun 28
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Stream On: ‘Wodehouse in Exile’—was he equipped for his nasty little century?
English Humorist P.G. Wodehouse broadcasted from Germany during WWII. It was no joke.
Jun 21
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Stream On: ‘Wodehouse in Exile’—was he equipped for his nasty little century?
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Stream On: ‘The Forsyte Saga’—progenitor of the British costume dramas
The 1967 series that inspired the creation of ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ and similar series was rebooted in 2002.
Jun 14
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Stream On: ‘The Forsyte Saga’—progenitor of the British costume dramas
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Stream On: What if we already know the ending? ‘Day of the Jackal’
‘The Day of the Jackal’ (1973) is still one of the most suspenseful yarns on the big screen.
Jun 7
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Stream On: What if we already know the ending? ‘Day of the Jackal’
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May 2024
Stream On: The best ‘Sherlock Holmes?’
There is something uncanny in Jeremy Brett’s brilliant portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.
May 31
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Stream On: the battle of the British costume … dramas?, part three—‘Blandings’
The winner? ‘Blandings,’ from P.G. Wodehouse’s series of comic stories, may be the antidote to ‘Downton Abbey.’
May 24
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Stream On: Moose and squirrel through the years
“Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” “Again?” The persistence of Rocky and Bullwinkle
May 17
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Stream On: Outsiders, ‘In Cold Blood’ and ‘Capote’
In 1960, Truman Capote, inspired by the Time magazine article “Kansas: The Killers,” a story about the murders of the Clutter family, wrote his great…
May 10
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