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Survivor 45: Meet the Castaways Competing in the Grittiest Season Yet

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A super-sized season of “Survivor” is here! After 23 years — and 652 episodes! — CBS’ reality competition series is back. For the first time, “Survivor” will feature all 90-minute episodes, instead of the usual one-hour episodes, diving deeper into the the 18 players’ stories as they live stranded in Fiji. Read More...

The Most Delightful Things We Learned About Mr. Rogers in Wont You Be My Neighbor?

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“Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort,” Fred Rogers wrote in his 2003 book, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. And while we all know how everyone’s favorite neighbor helped raise generations of kids via his classic show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, the tenderhearted TV personality kept whatever insights he had into his own life to himself. So who was the ordained Presbyterian minister, the man who preached simple messages of love and kindness from his PBS pulpit for more than 30 years? Read More...

Theres No Heroism or Fantasy in John Woos Brutal Silent Night

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In his latest action thriller, the director foregrounds grief and pain over the balletic mayhem of his previous work. This review was originally published on December 1. We are recirculating it now timed to Silent Night’s digital release. John Woo’s latest, Silent Night, is being billed as his first Hollywood film in more than 15 years, and at first glance, it looks like it could even represent a return to the poetically charged, operatic gunplay of his Hong Kong golden age. Read More...