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This post contains spoilers for the Picard series finale, “The Last Generation.” When this third and final season of Picard debuted earlier this year, I wrote that while on the one hand it was shameless fan service, on the other this was exactly what Star Trek fans wanted and needed …

O n an island in Venice, about a 20-minute boat ride from the mainland and several million light years away from the arid desert planet of Arrakis, there’s a small garden overlooking the water. It’s a green oasis located within a sprawling hotel complex that covers the entire area, complete …

All television shows are collaborative creations, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows add a few layers beyond what’s normal. For Loki head writer Michael Waldron, that meant not only coming into the job with the series already having a premise — a variant of Loki, who was plucked from the …

Soleil Moon Frye became the ultimate Eighties child star on Punky Brewster, at the age of seven. She played America’s favorite wise-cracking moppet, wearing mismatched high-tops and extolling the virtues of Punky Power. The show was eventually cancelled in 1988 — and that’s when Frye started toting a video camera …

At the tail end of Time — the feature-length documentary that, since its heralded Sundance debut last year, has deservedly made its director, Garrett Bradley, one of the film world’s women of the hour — an extraordinary thing happens. The movie follows a black family living in the shadow of …

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are Grammy winners. Oscar winners. Rock stars. Bringers of sonic nightmares. They are not, however, always great on their first attempt at a piece of music. When Damon Lindelof commissioned the longtime collaborators and Nine Inch Nails bandmates to write a score for his HBO …

At the end of a recent appearance of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert asked his guest, Run the Jewels rapper Killer Mike, what white people could do to be better allies in what has become a serious moment of reckoning in our country. The artist’s answer: go watch the …

This post contains full spoilers for the Mr. Robot series finale. The Mr. Robot finale was a big, beautiful mirror. It forced the series’ main character to reflect on exactly who and what he was — which was not, it turned out, Elliot Alderson, but an unnamed, angry alternate personality …

With the spotlight on the Stonewall uprising’s 50th anniversary this month, several treasured landmark LGBTQ documentaries have been restored and are being re-released for a limited time in theaters, including Jennie Livingston’s Paris Is Burning and the era-defining Before Stonewall. But among the gifts to be cherished from this renewed …

There’s no better time to curl up a couch while the snow falls outside your window — or to sneak away while your extended relatives bicker over presents and politics — and stream TV shows, movies, specials etc. to your heart’s delight. (Please note that watching, say, the new Michael …