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Writer, @SlateCulture. Member @NYFCC | @NatSocFilmCrix | @WGAEast Thinking about movies and cities.
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Netflix’s Documentary About the Michael Jackson Trial Is Essential Viewing Original

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By Sam Adams 
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Television By Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic originally opened with what the New Yorker’s Fuqua profile described as an “action sequence” depicting the 1993 police raid on Jackson’s Neverland Ranch—a sequence the film was forced to discard after it was discovered that Jackson’s settlement with the family of Jordan Chandler, whose family sued after Chandler accused Jackson of sexually molesting him when he was 13, forbade any depiction related to Chandler’s allegations.
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The Real Takeaways of Backrooms’ and Obsession’s Astonishing Box-Office Success Original

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By Sam Adams 
| Slate
Skip to the content Movies By Over the weekend, audiences flocked to see Backrooms, the new horror movie from 20-year-old YouTube sensation Kane Parsons, whose $81 million domestic gross made him the youngest director in history to open a film at No. 1. But in keeping with the film’s fascination with eerie, depersonalized spaces, some intrepid viewers sought out the most abandoned-looking place they could find to watch it in: a movie theater.
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Tina Fey’s Netflix Show Is Finding a Way to Keep Things Fresh as It Ages Original

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By Sam Adams 
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Television By There’s a saying among screenwriters that third-act problems are first-act problems, which is to say that if you’re having trouble with how your story ends, the issue is probably with how it began. The characters in The Four Seasons, whose second season is now streaming on Netflix, are, statistically speaking, entering their third acts, the period after youth and parenthood where their lives are once again their own.
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