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"...Thought I'd take a break from Cop Talk this week (don't worry, there's plenty more to..."

"...We don't know yet if the killer was a cop, or a cop's kid, or if the cops kept..."

"...The charm and momentum of Rae and Nanjiani’s performances alone should be enough to inspire a future generation of..."

"...One of the first musically inclined bars to reopen was..."

"...line between genuine empowerment and exploitation is a thin one, and often a source of heavy debate and reappraisal...."

"...ordinary people making extraordinary wishes and living – for good or ill – with the consequences...."

"...the Chitlin' Circuit. Entering teenhood as the Beatles and Stones upended the musical universe, he observed South Central denizens..."

"...use the term "exquisite" about any film, never mind one based on a 17th century pop science book about..."

"...of 2019 included some unexpected shockers and some long-anticipated milestones, but they all have one thing in common: They're..."

"...Clint Eastwood has authority issues. As squinting cop "Dirty" Harry Callahan, he brandished a .44 Magnum to..."

"...and hopefully I learned something. I am not a cop with the license to visit lethal force upon black..."

"...disc jockey. In the silence following each flat-footed joke, one right after the other, you can hear oxygen molecules..."

"...can do – more aggressively than it already has done – in defense of the planet...."

"...institutional power, and economics – are probably more than one second-tier action movie could hope to unpack; the best..."

"...combat homelessness – Topic A all summer long, and one often framed as a core question of public safety...."

"...were working to cover up the group’s activity. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Ching To fears the mole is..."

"...satires have had a thorny history (Life is Beautiful, anyone? How about The Day the Clown Cried?), but FF..."

"...degradation. There are shades of gray, of course. The ill-reasoned response to sociopolitical pressures or personal affront. Mitigating circumstances...."

"...as possible before August shows up like a nosy cop asking all the wrong questions. So each week, we’ll..."

"...winning an Oscar for The Barbarian Invasions, he name-checks one of his earliest works, 1986’s The Decline of the..."

"...there at UT in 1974, a cool four and one-half decades ago. Cheap Trick, birthed a year earlier, thus..."

"...A conversation with the seasoned action writer/director (Smoking Aces, Narc, and modern wilderness survival..."

"...reactionary filmmaker. Simply by casting Mel Gibson as racist cop Brett Ridgeman, and teaming him with noted conservative Vince..."

"...Iron Man being notable exceptions to the rule. The bone-crunching, rib-cracking, and head-bashing Kick-Ass comically subverts the myth in..."

"...The first part of the discussion with Zell Miller..."

"...Every year around this time, I make New Year's..."

"...Asger Holm (Cedergren) is not a good cop. That's made abundantly clear in the opening moments..."

"...love, death, white privilege, black disadvantage, and the seemingly foregone conclusions that the system is rigged against those at..."

"...One of the best things about ridesharing is how uniquely..."

"...Sixth Street and thinking to myself, someday, very soon, someone is going to say, 'Fuck the system, we're going..."