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New to streaming this week: Arcade Fire, 'Hatching,' Three Mile Island
May 2, 2022 6:00 AM - The Netflix documentary "Meltdown: Three Mile Island" hits the streaming service Wednesday, May 4; Hulu's "Hatching" and Netflix's "Along for the Ride" premiere on Friday, May 6; and the Arcada Fire's new album "WE" is available online Friday.
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PBS' 'Ridley Road' holds lessons to America from '60s London
May 1, 2022 7:30 AM - It took eight long years for Sarah Soleman to get a murky part of Britain's post-World War II history from the pages of a book to our TV screens. "Ridley Road," a four-part series that makes its U.S. debut Sunday, May 1, on PBS' "Masterpiece," takes viewers to a part of British history that they may not have known.
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French lovers find each other in 'Anais in Love'
Apr 29, 2022 11:15 AM - We first meet the intriguing heroine of "Anais in Love," appropriately enough, when she's rushing, but it's not clear to where. Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, the film's director and screenwriter, has crafted a portrait of a maddeningly headstrong yet aimless woman who's obsessed with finding love.
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'Petite Maman' easily one of the best movies about mothers and daughters
Apr 29, 2022 11:15 AM - Celine Sciamma's "Petite Maman" -- essentially about an 8-year-old daughter wanting to know her mother better -- may be short and stripped down, but its layers are many. It's easily one of the best films ever made about mothers and daughters.
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Broadbent, Mirren charm in art heist pic 'The Duke'
Apr 29, 2022 6:00 AM - The late British director Roger Michell imbues his last film, "The Duke" -- about a real-life art heist at Britain's National Gallery in 1961 -- with charm, wit and good storytelling. One of Michell's talents was to pick the right cast -- here Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren -- and let the chemistry shine.
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Elisabeth Moss once again gets to play an everyday superhero in Apple TV+'s 'Shining Girls'
Apr 29, 2022 6:00 AM - Battling the bad guy isn't easy, even for Elisabeth Moss. In her new series "Shining Girls" for Apple TV+ premiering Friday, April 29, Moss has her work cut out for her. She plays Kirby, a newspaper archivist in 1990s Chicago who is haunted and taunted by a serial killer, who is always steps ahead of his victims and the authorities.
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Paramount +'s 'The Offer' is one that shouldn't be refusedApr 28, 2022 9:25 AM - "The Godfather'" stands as an American cinematic masterpiece that has endured the test of time and enthralled generations since it hit theaters a half-century ago. And it almost didn't get made, according to the story told in the new limited series "The Offer" on Paramount+.
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The perils of perfectionism in Finland's 'Hatching'
Apr 28, 2022 9:12 AM - Hanna Bergholm's "Hatching" is a chilling critique of perfectionism wrapped up in a gruesome body horror.
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A tad familiar: Liam Neeson kills down 'Memory' lane
Apr 28, 2022 9:12 AM - "Memory" is an interesting title for the latest Liam Neeson thriller. If you come to "Memory" hoping Neeson is going to growl one-liners like "Commit THAT to memory!" -- you may be surprised to find a movie less interested in such action-star heroics than it is something murkier and more cynical.
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Musk's 'free speech' push for Twitter: Repeating history?
Apr 26, 2022 8:44 AM - Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is spending $44 billion to acquire Twitter with the stated aim of turning it into a haven for "free speech." There's just one problem: The social platform has been down this road before, and it didn't end well.
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