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The Show: As we've seen with the first three seasons of HBO's "Westworld," it's been a strange and wild ride that kicked off with a mildly-satisfying bang for its debut season, but quickly found itself in murkier waters as the writers developed a bit of a problem in terms of figuring out a compelling direction for the show to take. In fact, the second season, which was a bizarre exercise in structure over substance, felt like they put very little effort into the narrative at

The Film: "Don't Worry Darling" is one of those films that was covered in controversy well before it even came out. From the supposed firing of one of its stars to reports of on-set fighting to subsequent denials of unprofessional behavior, the production seemed to be bogged down with unfortunate issues, and yet despite all of this, the film got finished, with the marketing making it look like it could be a rather intriguing mystery. But could it possibly be nearly as interes

The Show: For the last several years, James Gunn has shown himself to be one of the strongest talents in the field of bringing comic books to the big screen, giving us not only a pair of great Marvel films with "Guardians of the Galaxy: Volumes 1 & 2," but also delivering the best DC Comics adaptation in the Post-Nolan era with "The Suicide Squad." With this string of grand successes, it seemed inevitable that the higher ups would want him to bring those talents to the smalle

The Film: Prolific filmmaker Spike Lee has had an incredible career stretching all the way back to the late '70s, with his two most popular works arguably being the highly-lauded "Do the Right Thing" from 1989, and the much more recent "Blackkklansman" from 2018, which earned him an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. 30 years ago, he made another little film that garnered some mild acclaim entitled "Malcolm X," a biopic about the well-known activist. To celebrate this milesto