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“The Marine Corps is the greatest offensive line in the history of football,” a character declares in Peter Berg’s The...
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The change from a name ending in “paw” to one ending in “star” gives a cat a public history. Apprenticeship, adulthood and leadership become audible whenever another clan member addresses you. Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest inherits this useful device from Erin Hunter’s books: identity belongs partly to the individual and partly to the community that recognizes them. Becoming a warrior means entering an existing order, with territorial obligations, a shared code and ancestors whose authority survives their deaths. For a readership accustomed to inventing warrior names and original characters, the character creator offers a natural extension of that...

Marisa’s support for her adopted children’s search gives Abandoned an unusually generous understanding of parenthood. Ramón, Ricard and Elvira want to discover who brought them into the world and why those people disappeared. Marisa remains a steady, cautious presence as they investigate, attentive to the pain that answers might bring. Her participation leaves room for a desire that a possessive account of family would treat as disloyalty. The four-part documentary allows her security as a mother and her children’s uncertainty about their origins to occupy the same emotional space. The photographic montage of their childhood with Marisa and Lluís gives...

Bobbie assumes that Isabella will welcome an office of her own. Isabella assumes their shared office has become an irritation to Bobbie. Neither interpretation is malicious, yet between them they turn a practical arrangement into a question about belonging. In “Office/Space,” the third-season premiere of Happy’s Place, giving someone room to work becomes unexpectedly difficult for people accustomed to treating proximity as proof of affection. For NBC’s Reba McEntire vehicle, that difficulty has a useful second meaning. An ensemble built around an established star needs its supporting characters to develop purposes that occasionally pull them away from her. Isabella’s separate...

Kath Ward cleans the house she is preparing to abandon. Her husband, Matthew, sells the last of their cattle. John Carlin gives these preparations time in Lie of the Land, allowing the work of leaving to register before anyone starts fighting to stay alive. The predawn light drains the County Antrim farm of pastoral comfort, while an apprehensive score makes an ordinary task feel like a countdown. Kath has kept her late mother’s room pristine after caring for her through Alzheimer’s disease. Packing up this household means interrupting habits that have survived the person who required them. Matthew can imagine...

The unmarried couples caught in the raid on Hotel Lovely give Ajay Nirvit exactly the leverage he needs. Under the pretext of suppressing prostitution, the Delhi sub-inspector pressures the proprietor for a larger police share. Ritesh Shah’s Gajab Raat establishes corruption through this practical arrangement: the customers’ fear of exposure becomes an asset the officer can exploit. Public morality provides the language, private income supplies the purpose, and Manoj Bajpayee plays Ajay with the ease of someone conducting familiar business. There is little uncertainty about his relationship with the uniform. He knows what it can earn him. His superior, SHO...

The Explorer in Beyond the Dark: Nightwatch can search a room, pick up an object, and open a door, but the person best placed to judge the danger may be watching another screen. This two-player horror game gives one participant a first-person view inside a mysterious house and puts the other behind its surveillance system. The Overseer tracks the creature Gloam, checks information, and helps direct the search for an escape. Neither role has enough control to operate comfortably alone: the Explorer supplies the hands, while the Overseer supplies a wider, imperfect view. The relationship becomes especially interesting when the...
“The Marine Corps is the greatest offensive line in the history of football,” a character declares in Peter Berg’s The...
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Read moreDetailsEric Bauza, the Emmy-winning voice actor who gave Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck their modern voices, died Sunday at his Los Angeles home. He was 46. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner attributed his death to hypertensive cardiovascular disease. His family announced the news in an Instagram statement and described...
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Read moreEric Bauza, the Emmy-winning voice actor who gave Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck their modern voices, died Sunday at his Los Angeles home. He was 46. The Los Angeles County...
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The change from a name ending in “paw” to one ending in “star” gives a cat a public history. Apprenticeship, adulthood and leadership become audible whenever another clan member addresses...
Marisa’s support for her adopted children’s search gives Abandoned an unusually generous understanding of parenthood. Ramón, Ricard and Elvira want to discover who brought them into the world and why...
Bobbie assumes that Isabella will welcome an office of her own. Isabella assumes their shared office has become an irritation to Bobbie. Neither interpretation is malicious, yet between them they...
Kath Ward cleans the house she is preparing to abandon. Her husband, Matthew, sells the last of their cattle. John Carlin gives these preparations time in Lie of the Land,...
The unmarried couples caught in the raid on Hotel Lovely give Ajay Nirvit exactly the leverage he needs. Under the pretext of suppressing prostitution, the Delhi sub-inspector pressures the proprietor...
The change from a name ending in “paw” to one ending in “star” gives a cat a public history. Apprenticeship,...
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