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New HBO Series Offers People the Chance to Rehearse Big Life Changes

by Charles Bramesco July 11, 2022July 11, 2022

Nathan Fielder’s new show deepens his weird, discomfiting, and hilarious investigation into the line between what’s fake and real.

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A Meta Remake-of-a-Remake Muses on the State of Cinema

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel June 27, 2022June 27, 2022

Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good.

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A Timely Documentary Revisits the Time When Abortion Was Illegal

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel June 5, 2022June 3, 2022

The Janes interviews former members of Chicago’s underground network that helped people secure abortions.

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Exploring the Baffling Popularity of Kenny G

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel December 21, 2021December 21, 2021

Penny Lane’s Listening to Kenny G finds fascinating layers to the cult of the smooth jazz icon.

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How John Wilson Turns Thousands of Hours of Video Into Unique Explorations of New York

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel December 12, 2021December 13, 2021

The filmmaker talks to Hyperallergic about the second season of his HBO show How To with John Wilson and going down every rabbit hole he can find.

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What is the Point of HBO’s Remake of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage?

by Forrest Cardamenis October 5, 2021October 5, 2021

This update brings the star power of Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, but can’t match the emotional intensity of the original.

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Raoul Peck’s Frustratingly Incomplete Treatise on Colonialism

Avatar photo by Aditya Iyer June 13, 2021June 14, 2021

For all its bluntness, Exterminate All the Brutes never once utters the words “rape” or “capitalism.”

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Fake It ’Til You Make It: A Documentary Peels Back the Veneer of Online Influencers

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian February 25, 2021March 2, 2021

The crew of Fake Famous generated followers for aspiring Instagram celebs, demonstrating the artifice of internet success.

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A Premature Celebration of the Ascension of Black Artists

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney February 17, 2021March 2, 2021

Black Art, HBO’s documentary on Black visual artists, unwittingly demonstrates what a community gives up when it strives toward the mainstream.

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When a Con Artist Tried to Sell the “Car of the Future”

by Juan Barquin February 12, 2021March 2, 2021

The HBO true crime miniseries The Lady and the Dale argues that it’s just as important to highlight trans outlaws in addition to role models.

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Finding the Profundity in Pigeon Swarms, NYC Scaffolding, and More

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 5, 2020December 8, 2021

HBO’s weird and wonderful How To with John Wilson mines footage of everyday life for funny and surprising insights.

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Stream Your Heart Out: Emmy Nominations Are In

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell July 28, 2020November 5, 2020

Here are a few of our favorites, including Watchmen, Pose, and more.

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