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2026

Nov 5 Tinto Brass Dies at 93: The Grand Master of Italian Eros Was Also a Reader
Oct 31 European Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s: 43 Films to Watch, From Truffaut and Melville to Fellini and Bergman
Oct 28 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Book vs 1979 Series vs 2011 Film, and Why the Long Version Wins
Oct 27 Giallo Began with Yellow Crime Books and Became a Style of Italian Film
Oct 14 High and Low vs Animals: Two Kidnapping Thrillers With Opposite Moral Conclusions
Oct 6 Jeffrey Archer Dies at 86: A Tribute to Britain's Great Storyteller
Oct 4 East of Eden on Netflix: Good and Bad Are Transient States for Steinbeck's Characters
Sep 14 No News From God at 25: Díaz Yanes' Heaven and Hell Comedy Still Lands
Aug 30 Beauty in Black Is a Racist Show, and Tyler Perry Being Black Doesn't Change That
Aug 19 The Guns of Navarone and Point of Impact: When the Book Beats Even the Acclaimed Movie
Aug 19 Samurai Films Like 13 Assassins: Why 11 Rebels Is the One That Works
Aug 19 Pascali's Island: Barry Unsworth's Novel and the 1988 Ben Kingsley Film Are Both Excellent
Aug 18 The Death of Robin Hood Review: Hugh Jackman's Unforgiven Without the Pulse
Jul 21 IMAX Posts Record $52 Million Global Opening With Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
May 18 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and the Ethics of the Graceful Exit
May 10 Netflix Cancels Bandi After One Season Despite 40 Million Hours Viewed
May 9 Marshals (CBS, 2026): Brain Cells Died Watching This
May 3 The Midnight Train: Matt Haig Returns to the World That Made Him
May 3 The Horny Wuthering Heights HBO Everyone Is Talking About
May 3 The Four Seasons Season 2: Tina Fey Finds the Right Formula and Sticks With It
May 3 The Boroughs: Alfred Molina and Geena Davis Fight Off an Alien Threat in a Retirement Community
May 3 The Author of Lessons in Chemistry Returns — and She's Writing About Poetry
May 3 Sunrise on the Reaping Is the Hunger Games Film Everyone Has Been Waiting For
May 3 Spider-Noir: Nicolas Cage Gets His Superhero Redemption Arc
May 3 Remarkably Bright Creatures: Sally Field and an Octopus Carry the Year's Most Unlikely Drama
May 3 One Hundred Years of Solitude Part 2 Is Netflix's Most Ambitious Adaptation Yet
May 3 Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed Has Tatiana Maslany Investigating a Youth Soccer Murder
May 3 Lord of the Flies on Netflix Is the TV Adaptation That Probably Should Have Been Made Decades Ago
May 3 Kin by Tayari Jones: The Year's Best Novel So Far, According to the NYT
May 3 Kathryn Stockett Returns After Fifteen Years. The Wait Was Apparently Worth It.
May 3 John of John: Douglas Stuart Leaves Glasgow Behind, but Not His Themes
May 3 Jack Ryan Is Back. This Time It's a Movie, Not a Season.
May 3 Homebound: A Debut That Spans Six Centuries and One Computer Game
May 3 Freida McFadden's New Thriller Arrives on BookTok Schedule
May 3 Elizabeth Strout's New Novel Is Already Being Called One of the Year's Best
May 3 Dutton Ranch Is Yellowstone Season 6 in Everything But Name
May 3 Citadel Season 2 Has One Job: Fix What the First Season Got Wrong
Apr 9 The Arts as the Longest Running Argument for European Identity
Apr 4 The Sheridan Formula: Competence, Silence, and the Same Man in Different Hats
Apr 4 The Allure of the Zombie: Why the Dead Keep Coming Back
Apr 4 Death Wish Men: The Obsession Driving Taylor Sheridan’s Heroes
Apr 3 Why Tommy Shelby Kept Going Back to Alfie Solomons
Apr 3 When a Hunt Turns Inside Out — Traqués / The Hunt vs. Shoot (1973)
Apr 3 The Allure of Stephen Hunter's Swagger Dynasty: Three Generations Written in Precision and Consequence
Mar 30 Conclave Is a Thriller About the Only Institution That Still Believes in Secrecy
Mar 29 The Sheridan Universe: Where Men Suffer Beautifully and Women Barely Exist
Mar 29 The Iron Throne Rusted: How Game of Thrones Collapsed and Why Its Spinoffs Can't Revive It
Mar 29 Immortal Man: They Killed Peaky Blinders to Make Peaky Blinders
Mar 29 By Order of the Peaky Blinders: A Perfect Show That Forgot How to End

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Dec 7 Chasing Ghosts in the Fakahatchee: A Fresh Look at The Orchid Thief

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