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Mel Brooks 99 Year Old Man

‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ celebrates a hilarious career

Mel Brooks has a great sense of comic pacing and rhythm in his best movies. He knows when to get in and get out. “Mel

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TV 2025

John’s top 10 TV shows of 2025

I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even

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It Welcome to Derry

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ expands from King’s work in King-y way

Showrunner (and often director) Andy Muschietti knows how to make a sale. As with the “It” movies, but more so, he gets stellar performances out

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Peacemaker Season 2

Gunn’s ‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 is no joke, despite a lighter tone from the DCEU days

James Gunn is improving the quality of DC’s storytelling from within the Warner Bros. machine, ironically by telling an epic story about former government agents

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Fall TV Preview

Fall TV preview 2025: 10 shows I wouldn’t mind watching

Here’s a look at 10 television series on my radar in Fall 2025 plus a whole bunch of murder mysteries that I might sift through.

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2024 TV

John’s top 10 TV shows of 2024

Prestige miniseries and streaming franchise “content” ruled the roost, but traditional network TV surprisingly hung on to life this year – even if the format

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Caddo Lake

‘Caddo Lake’ an engrossing metaphysical mystery

“Caddo Lake” (Max) smartly taps into both emotions and metaphysics, along with the gorgeously foreboding bayou straddling Texas and Louisiana, in one of 2024’s minor

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High Potential

‘High Potential,’ ‘Brilliant Minds,’ ‘Penguin’ showcase diverse brains

2024 might be the pivotal year for neurodiversity on TV, as “High Potential,” “Brilliant Minds” and even “The Penguin” feature different types of mental spaces.

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Fall TV Preview

Fall TV preview 2024: 10 shows I wouldn’t mind watching

Is Fall TV still a thing in this era when new stuff starts and ends at all points on the calendar, seemingly at random? It

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Turtles All the Way Down

Green beautifully tackles mental illness in ‘Turtles All the Way Down’ (2017, 2024)

John Green does a magnificent job of getting into the head of a teen girl with mental-health struggles in “Turtles All the Way Down” (2017,

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