‘The American Experiment’ Review: Netflix’s Tom Hanks-Produced Doc Featuring Hillary Clinton and Mike Pence Inspires and Irritates

‘The American Experiment’ Review: Netflix’s Tom Hanks-Produced Doc Featuring Hillary Clinton and Mike Pence Inspires and Irritates

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, knows well the complaints from some (including this presidential administration) that his museums focus too much on what is painful or ugly about the country’s history at the expense of what might be hopeful or uplifting about it. But as he sees it, the two…

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Ricky Gervais’ ‘Alley Cats’ Netflix Trailer: And You Thought Heathcliff Terrified the Neighborhood…

Ricky Gervais’ ‘Alley Cats’ Netflix Trailer: And You Thought Heathcliff Terrified the Neighborhood…

Ricky Gervais‘ spirit animal is undoubtedly a cat. He’s used that to conjure up new Netflix adult animated comedy series Alley Cats. Alley Cats follows “a group of feral British cats from all walks of society, who seek companionship while ruminating on everyday life,” its synopsis reads. “From the funny to the absurd, the series…

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Netflix Wins ‘Sesame Street’ Movie Rights

Netflix Wins ‘Sesame Street’ Movie Rights

 Netflix has cookies to nom, nom, nom on. Coming on top of a two-company bidding war, the streaming giant has landed the feature film rights to Sesame Street, the long-running and iconic children’s educational television show. Rideback, the production company behind the billion-dollar live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, and run by Jonathan Eirich and Michael…

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