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Scrapple TV

Saturday Night Scrapple

Television experiment Scrapple.TV injects some uniquely Philly content into your cable package.

John Simons

Jul 27, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

She's having his baby: Matt McGorry and Dascha Polanco in "Orange Is the New Black." (Photo by K.C. Bailey - © 2014 - Netflix)

'Orange Is the New Black' Season Two (second review)

When your choices don’t matter: The terror and appeal of 'Orange Is the New Black'

Orange Is the New Black portrays a world without an underlying order — a world where individuals’ choices don’t make much difference, and the characters struggle to survive anyway.

Alaina Johns

Jul 27, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

What will happen to Don Draper? (Photo by Michael Yarish/AMC)

2014-2015 television series finales

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Even the best TV show has to end eventually — the way it does so can make a difference to its legacy.

Paula Berman

Jul 19, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Knocking 'em dead at the Carlyle. (© Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival)

Elaine Stritch died yesterday, leaving the words of her favorite song, “I’m Still Here,” ringing in our ears. For me, she’s the epitome of show-business glamour. She glowed with the radiance of a performer who loved what she did, and she lived life to the fullest, without apology. She had sass, she had style, and she made a lot of people happy along the way.

Carol Rocamora

Jul 18, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Not an impenetrable art house flick: Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, and Octavia Spencer in "Snowpiercer." (Photo © 2013 - RADiUS/TWC )

Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer'

An allegory with ax fights

Snowpiercer is worth seeing not just because of its indictment of widening global inequality, but because it seriously examines the alternatives.

Jake Blumgart

Jul 12, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Moran Atias and Adrien Brody in "Third Person." (Photo by Maria Marin - © 2014 - Sony Pictures Classics)

Paul Haggis's 'Third Person'

Third person, removed

Third Person underwhelms in its attempt to tie together three separate threads. Its downfall is the very detachment implied by its title.

Kayleigh Butera

Jul 08, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

A journalist who created his own reality.

Roger Ebert’s ‘Life Itself’

The secret of Roger Ebert’s success

Life Itself is a documentary about a remarkable man who spent his entire life in movie theaters yet somehow managed to develop more humane relationships with more real people than most of us who inhabit the real world.