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For Your Viewing Pleasure Featuring Classic Movies, Recent Hits, Full TV Seasons, and More Dec 23, 2020 By Mark Redfern and Austin Trunick Photography by Wendy Lynch Redfern Holiday Gift Guide 2020 If you were smart and careful, you spent much of 2020 indoors thanks to the deadly pandemic. With many movie theaters closed much of 2020, with bars and restaurants often unavailable, with live music an impossibility; we all turned to home entertainment and that often meant our screens. Netflix and other streaming services can only offer so many choices and few people subscribe to every ser...

Alerts Clockwise from top left: The Evil Dead (Screenshot); E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial (Image: Amblin Entertainment); Killer Klowns From Outer Space (Photo: Trans World Entertainment); She’s Gotta Have It (Screenshot); The Witches (Screenshot) Streaming libraries expand and contract. Algorithms are imperfect. Those damn thumbnail images are always changing. But you know what you can always rely on? The expert opinions and knowledgeable commentary of The A.V. Club. That’s why we’re scouring both the menus of the most popular services and our own archives to bring you...

Miracle Mile won’t be the one named. John Badham’s suspense thriller WarGames, Mick Jackson’s horrifically realistic BBC docu-drama Threads and Harry T Murakami’s animated drama When The Wind Blows are the more likely candidates in that respect. That’s in no way indicative of the quality of De Jarnatt’s film, however, because Miracle Mile is a classic. It just happens to have existed in a liminal space as a ‘cult’ or ‘overlooked’ classic, but that’s beginning to change. While the film has always been championed by hardcore admirers, it’s the recent extras-laden, re...

The 50-Year-Old Mystery of Why NBC’s Progressive Drama The Senator Got the Axe Vulture.com 12/14/2020 Mark Harris If you could create the perfect TV drama for the pending Biden era, what would it look like? Let’s agree that it would have to steer clear of the White House itself — neither the we’ve-got-this confidence of The West Wing nor the acrid contempt of Veep seems quite right for early 2021. What if, instead, a show focused on the institution that’s preoccupying many of us at the moment, the United States Senate? Imagine a drama that takes governing serious...