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Everybody’s in Showbiz: The ‘80s Downtown Actors of Miami Vice

Philip Michael Thomas, Miles Davis and Don Johnson in the Miami Vice episode "Junk Love” (courtesy of NBCUniversal)

Between 9 and 11 p.m. on Friday, September 27, 1985, after Knight Rider and before the late local news, one of every five American TV sets was tuned to NBC to see the theatrical impresario who would send his casts… Read more

By Mark Asch Apr 8, 2021

Choose Your Own Future: Adam Curtis’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head

Can’t Get You Out of My Head (courtesy of the BBC)

While Adam Curtis has been making films since 1983, he first gained a kind of international recognition that once might have been termed “cult” with The Century of the Self (2002) and The Power of Nightmares (2004). These films source-coded… Read more

By Brendan Byrne Apr 8, 2021