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TV Episode Review: “Doctor Who” “The Magician’s Apprentice” (09.01, 2015)
“Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand. So here’s what you do: forget about the thousand, and concentrate on the one.” Steven Moffat has always been capable of a great turn of dialogue. He’s had an excellent sense of when to let them play out as melodrama (The “remember every black day…
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TV Series Review: “Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell” (Toby Haynes, UK 2015)
In 2004, Susanna Clarke unleashed her debut novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, a sprawling, 1000-plus-page epic fantasy on the world. Neil Gaiman hailed the novel as “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last seventy years,” a time period that notably includes The Hobbit and all of The Lord of…
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Movie Review: “Love & Mercy” (Bill Pohlad, USA 2014)
The most important songwriters in rock history are Jon Lennon, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, and Brian Wilson. There are plenty of other greats and plenty of others who are important, but I think that’s pretty clearly the top group. I’ve heard many times over the years of the concept of stripping a song…
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