With the Hollywood strikes resolved, the new year promises a return to normal — whatever “normal” looks like these days.
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Film critic Nina Metz and sports writer Shakeia Taylor look back at “Slap Shot,” “A League of Their Own,” “White Men Can’t Jump” and “Bend it Like Beckham.”
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The series also wraps with a look at Queen Elizabeth contemplating — and rejecting — minor attempts to modernize the monarchy.
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Alan Ritchson plays the mountain of a man, with a taste for wandering and a moral center, who reunites with his old Army unit.
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Tony Shalhoub returns as the obsessive-compulsive crime solver he played on the USA series “Monk” for a one-off TV movie.
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Both the cast of "Good Times" and the show's co-creator Eric Monte pushed back on the show's depiction of Black people.
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Critic Nina Metz's picks also include the murder mystery "Poker Face" on Peacock and the sports drama "Swagger" on Apple TV+.
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The film is subtitled "Facing a Family's Secrets" and that's precisely what director Amanda Mustard is after.
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"Shetland" gets a new detective in Season 8, and "Crime" from "Trainspotting" writer Irvine Welsh returns for Season 2.
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There's less cerebral gamesmanship this time around, but Gary Oldman's Jackson Lamb remains as effectively grotesque as ever.
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