Warner Bros. was one of five studios that joined forces with Wall Street investors to gobble up independent theaters and movie producers in the 1920s.
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Though Netflix has always cultivated an image as television’s great disruptor, the company has persistently adopted, adapted and copied the conventions of legacy television.
Stranger Things proves that even in an era filled with sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots, it’s still possible for a new story to launch a major franchise.
The cast of Stranger Things in season five.
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The show’s representation of Jewish women has slightly improved in series two, but still affords them little nuance.
Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.
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From a new ABC drama to a Biggest Loser documentary, here’s the best of what’s streaming now.
Comedy can be a useful tool to help tackle challenging topics. In Netflix’s ‘Mo,’ characters deal with immigration, war, poverty and memories of Palestine.
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‘Mo’ uses the comedy-drama format to address difficult and divisive issues such as immigration in America and the Israel-Gaza war in an accessible format.
It may not have a soul, but AI has learned the mathematical recipe for the sights and sounds that most people find moving.
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