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Pikes Pick: Welcome back football with ‘Hard Knocks’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Hard Knocks” signals the return of football. Streaming now, the annual HBO series takes us inside the personal and professional lives of players during training camp, with this year’s focus on the Buffalo Bills. —…
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Pikes Pick: Netflix series explores the the life of a pro quarterback
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What’s it like to live and work in the most polarizing position in professional sports? The Netflix series “Quarterback” provides a window. Season two recently dropped, featuring Joe Burrow, Jared Goff and Kirk Cousins. —…
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Pikes Pick: Netflix documentary ‘Daughters’ tugs at heartstrings
You don’t know what they did to be in prison. You just know who they are: fathers. They are fathers preparing to see their little girls for a rare dance in the emotional Netflix documentary “Daughters.” — Seth Boster, The Gazette
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Pikes Pick: New documentary takes close look at Martha Stewart
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Martha” is no perfect documentary — some voices missing, I thought — and Martha Stewart is no perfect subject. And that is what makes it worth the watch on Netflix: For her legacy of perfection,…
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Pikes Pick: New documentary takes close look at Martha Stewart
“Martha” is no perfect documentary — some voices missing, I thought — and Martha Stewart is no perfect subject. And that is what makes it worth the watch on Netflix: For her legacy of perfection, it’s an interesting breakdown of her very human imperfections. — Seth Boster, the Gazette
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Pikes Pick: New documentary a musical ode to John Williams
There is a nostalgic pleasure to “Music by John Williams,” the documentary taking us to familiar scenes of “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park” and other moments of our memory, as well as less-familiar moments of the composer’s life. On Disney+. — Seth Boster
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Pikes Pick: Bear down with ‘Hard Knocks’
“Hard Knocks” is HBO’s annual stoke-raiser ahead of the NFL season, a series following a team’s training camp. Even better this year: The team is my Chicago Bears. Streaming on HBO Max. — Seth Boster, The Gazette
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Pikes Pick: Documentary explores wonderful, whimsical world of Muppets creator
Jim Henson had ideas far beyond the Muppets. So we learn from the new Ron Howard documentary, “Jim Henson: Idea Man.” Streaming on Disney+, it’s a moving tribute to the creator’s spirit and impact. — Seth Boster
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Pikes Pick: A wrestling tragedy, ‘Iron Claw,’ now available for rent
If you missed it in theaters, “The Iron Claw” is now renting on Amazon Prime and other platforms. It’s the story of the Von Erich brothers, who wrestled their way to the top. Then came a tragic fall. — Seth Boster, The Gazette
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Pikes Pick: Netflix documentary takes us inside ‘Greatest Night in Pop’
The Netflix documentary “The Greatest Night in Pop” relives the long, late night of 1985 when music’s biggest stars came together to record “We Are the World.” Correction on “relives” — we are all living it, joyously, for the first time. — Seth Boster Huey Lewis, left, and Michael Jackson in “The Greatest Night in Pop.” Netflix