Sport documentaries are timeless. It's precisely why—even though the new Netflix tennis docuseries, Break Point, won't return until June—I'm still glued to the TV for any true-story treatment I can find. And while I am always quick to argue that the ol' talking heads format needs an update, the reality is that I'll watch just about anything that continues to celebrate wonderful athletes such as Rafael Nadal, Michael Jordon, and Simone Biles. Thankfully, many of Netflix's sports docs keep the action moving, retelling unbelievable stories that will inspire even the laziest among us to rise from the couch and take on the impossible.
Sport documentaries are timeless. It's precisely why—even though the new Netflix tennis docuseries, Break Point, won't return until June—I'm still glued to the TV for any true-story treatment I can find. And while I am always quick to argue that the ol' talking heads format needs an update, the reality is that I'll watch just about anything that continues to celebrate wonderful athletes such as Rafael Nadal, Michael Jordon, and Simone Biles. Thankfully, many of Netflix's sports docs keep the action moving, retelling unbelievable stories that will inspire even the laziest among us to rise from the couch and take on the impossible. |
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Kyle Edward Ball lifts the curtain on the most viral film the horror genre has seen in years. |
| Whether you're newly dating, happily married, or anywhere in between. |
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This likely isn't the first thing you've read about Tyre Nichols, and likely won't be the last. It's not the first you've read about a police "killing"—the word we use until murder has been proven in court or when, despite evidence, a court says it hasn't—and it surely won't be the last. What more can be said? Death, video, outrage, repeat. Once I watched a woman watch her son murdered on repeat on her living room TV. Each time she'd pause at what she said was a different moment, but it was always the same moment, right before he died. "See?" she'd say. She'd point to a blossom of smoke from the barrel of a policeman's gun: the bullet not yet arrived. What did she see in that moment? We all know by now the truth and illusion promised by such a video. The facts of a killing, but also the cycle, the way we spin video round, as if such facts in themselves equal justice, and as if justice—the bullet or the fatal blow never arriving all—could be made possible by hitting pause. |
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I walked into the Regal Union Square at 12 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon. My soul is still stranded there. |
| In our latest 'How I Take a Loss' column, the Phillies slugger opens up about his recovery from Tommy John surgery—and what he thinks of that 'Chosen One' cover story, all these years later. |
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Finally, Apple is returning the Mac to its roots. Once again the mega name is creating powerful, well-designed, practical products. With the new MacBook Pro and Mac mini, and the M2 chip powering these models, we're back to paying for power instead of brand with Apple. Back between the early 2000's to the mid 2010's, you either had or knew someone who had an iMac in the family computer room. It was cool. It was ahead of its time. There was a reason for that. Mac OS may be rigid compared to some more open source operating systems, but that's what makes it such a great family computer. It's easy to use, powerful, and was a great preliminary creative teaching tool for kids and adults alike. The problem was that for the last five to seven years (not that we're counting) Apple, as a whole, had a sort of fall from grace. |
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