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If you have watched David Simon’s seminal The Wire- and liked it- We Own This City will probably keep you glued to the screen. The limited series is dripping with meticulous research and has a gritty, brutally honest approach to…
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Those Who Wish Me Dead feels like a throwback to 90’s films centered around natural disasters. Directed by Taylor Sheridan (who wrote Sicario, directed Hell or High Water and wrote and directed Wind River), it’s an entertaining thriller film that…
Frank Castle Embraces his Inner Monster in the Punisher’s Second Season
The Punisher’s second season is a complicated beast. In many ways, it starts out better than the first season, but it fumbles the pacing three-fourths of the way and lands a somewhat solid ending. It’s one of the last two…
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