Melvin Van Peebles 1932-2021
R.I.P. to the Godfather of Black American Cinema
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Watch List Digest 11/21/25
The Compleat (Almost) Werner Herzog, 1980s Skinemax movies, faux-documentaries and some really good films on demand. Check it out.
What to Watch: "Train Dreams," "Listers" and more
One of the year's best comes to Netflix and a scrappy home-made documentary about birding takes YouTube by storm. Plus: Reviews of "Rental Family," "Wicked: For Good" and some bleak humor for a time of ICE.
One Good Film: "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets" (+ new to VOD)
The Ross brothers's 2020 ode to a Las Vegas dive's last stand is warm, funky and trickier than it seems.
Max and Cheese
In which the author bites into the bittersweet Proustian madeleine of a youthful gig picking T&A movies for a major pay cable service.