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A memo to pop stars: If you're filming a highly stylized visual album and you...
I've watched Beyoncé's Lemonade visual album only once, when HBO Go had the streaming rights to the visual album for just one day (I'm not a Tidal subscriber, and $9.99 a month is too steep for my...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, now streaming on Showtime...
From November 20, 2015, here's a repost of my discussion of the 1971 film Le Mans, the subject of Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans, an intriguing 2015 documentary that premiered on Showtime on...
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Other than whitewashed Asian characters, my least favorite thing lately is...
Natalie Morales and Natalie Morales, who would both probably have a less aggravating time on social media if one of them just added her middle initial to her nameIn 2014, New York Times columnist...
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Rest in power, the Minority Militant, a.k.a. Keon Enoy Munedouang
Keon Enoy Munedouang (1980-2016)If you regularly read several blogs written by Asian American authors or you're active in the Asian American blogosphere, you're going to be hearing a lot in the next...
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Accidental Star Trek Cosplay is my new Tumblr about the fascinating subject...
The Star Wars franchise had quite an artistic comeback last winter. Not everyone was over the moon of Yavin about The Force Awakens, but when even my former colleague Richard von Busack--the Metro...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Bob's Burgers, "Best Burger"
The cast and crew of Bob's Burgers celebrated the show's 100th episode with a cake that was cut by the perfect person to be seen handling such a ceremony: samurai movie fan Louise Belcher, a.k.a....
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Archer, "Deadly Velvet: Part II"
Occasionally on Friday, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. Stream "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," my one-hour mix of...
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The late Muhammad Ali lives on in compelling docs ranging from the...
(Photo source: RogerEbert.com)I was too young to catch the late Muhammad Ali in his prime as a boxer and civil rights activist. So it wasn't until the 1996 release of When We Were Kings, Leon Gast and...
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Samantha Bee and Larry Wilmore delivered the most satisfying late-night...
Last Saturday's terrible massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub, the worst mass shooting on American soil, led to a range of mournful responses from late-night TV hosts the following Sunday and Monday...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Yes, Virginia, there is a better version of Supercop,...
The following is a repost of my June 8, 2015 discussion of one of my favorite threequels of all time, Police Story 3, a.k.a. Supercop.Disney's recent decision to scrap its Tron threequel may be due to...
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Variety shows aren't my thing, but Jiminy Glick terribly interviewing...
I don't care for variety shows, except for Muppet Show clips (or the occasional Carol Burnett Show sketch clip) and sometimes SNL, which, if you think about it, is really just a '70s-style variety...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Archer, "Fugue and Riffs"
Shortly after the conclusion of Archer's seventh season, a largely satisfying season that rebooted Adam Reed's profane spy spoof as a private eye genre spoof, FX announced last month that it has...
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Larry Wilmore perfectly rips apart the idiotic "All Lives Matter" crowd
For a couple of years, whenever moments of appalling racism would dominate the news cycle for an entire week, I'd think to myself either "I can't wait to hear what Totally Biased has to say" or "What...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Mr. Robot season 1 brought us a summertime mystery as...
Mr. Robot creator/showrunner Sam Esmail and his actors picked up the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series earlier this year.The second season of Mr. Robot begins this Wednesday on the USA network, three...
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Laura Benanti's Melania Trump impression on Colbert is the funniest satirical...
Like I've said before, whenever there's a news story that involves race, I've lately found myself saying, "I can't wait to hear what Larry Wilmore has to say." The controversy over Melania Trump's 2016...
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I'm bored with doing this Blogspot blog, especially when my new Tumblr blog...
I'm bored. I'm the chairman of the bored. I'm a lengthy monologue. I'm living like a dog. I'm bored. I bore myself to sleep at night. I bore myself in broad daylight 'cause I'm bored. Just another...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Currently a tough assassin in Suicide Squad, Will Smith...
The following is a repost of my October 1, 2014 discussion of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, particularly "Def Poet's Society."I've been sent music journalist Brian Coleman's second Check the Technique...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: The Simpsons, "Simpsorama"
(Photo source: FY Springfield)The following is a repost of my November 14, 2014 discussion of the Simpsons/Futurama crossover. Futurama is back in the limelight again, after Dan Lanigan, a reality TV...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Margaret is a very mid-'00s movie about post-9/11...
This famously angry person on Twitter should never be allowed near either Twitter or the nuclear codes.The following is a repost of my May 30, 2014 discussion of the director's cut of Margaret.Because...
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AFOS Blog Rewind: Tron: Uprising, "Isolated" (from July 10, 2012)
The following is a repost of my July 10, 2012 discussion of "Isolated," an episode of Disney XD's short-lived Tron: Uprising. I hate the listicle structure, and his piece could have easily gone without...
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