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Noel Murray
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Lives in Arkansas, writes about movies, TV, music, comics, and more. Bylines in The A.V. Club, The Week, The Verge, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone.
Feb 11 2019
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In its first two episodes, I Am The Night had clear, classic L.A. noir antecedents: a lot of James Ellroy, a bit of…
Feb 4 2019
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The best Los Angeles-set noir films—The Big Sleep, Chinatown, L.A. Confidential—serve as a shadow-history of the…
Jan 28 2019
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Over the past ten years, Chris Pine has played Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek reboot, the vintage comic book…
Nov 19 2018
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Sam Esmail is hardly the first person to bring a little visual panache to television. In the decade after The…
Nov 4 2018
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The other day, while channel-surfing, I stumbled across Martin Scorsese’s 1973 breakthrough film Mean Streets, a…
Oct 28 2018
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Because next week brings The Deuce’s second season season to a close, it’s tempting to spend this recap speculating…
Oct 21 2018
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About two-thirds of the way through this week’s episode of The Deuce, Officer Danny Flanagan bashes his prostitute…
Oct 14 2018
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I’m sure The Deuce creators David Simon and George Pelecanos wish they could travel back in time and shoot their…
Oct 7 2018
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By the end of this week’s The Deuce episode, “All You’ll Be Eating Is Cannibals,” Eileen’s finally ready to roll on…
Sep 30 2018
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In 1986, Broadway songwriting legend Stephen Sondheim and dramatist James Lapine turned Bruno Bettelheim’s…
Sep 23 2018
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Jun 4 2018
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In the 15 years since Fred Rogers died, the television pioneer has enjoyed a second life as an internet celebrity.…
Apr 13 2018
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Elvis Presley probably spent more time in front of a movie camera than any other rock star of his era. He made young…
Apr 10 2018
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“Before there was CGI, there was Andre The Giant.” So says David Shoemaker, wrestling historian, trying to describe…
Mar 22 2018
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Although Jack White was the primary creative force in The White Stripes, the three albums he’s made since officially…
Jan 22 2018
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One of the sweetest and funniest scenes in Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird lasts 47 seconds, and has six cuts between four…
Dec 26 2017
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This week’s question comes from A.V. Club alum Becca James:
Dec 20 2017
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2017 didn’t improve much on 2016. If anything, the horror and dread of last year only seemed to take root and…
Dec 18 2017
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Bad movies were the least of anyone’s problems in 2017. But at a time when art seems uniquely vital as a way to…