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The Muppets Mayhem Offers a Lightweight but Entertaining Peek Behind the Music
Nearly five decades after The Muppet Show debuted, The Muppets Mayhem — a new 10-episode Disney+ series — aims to flesh out those intriguing weirdos who’ve provided so much of the Muppets’ all-important music over the years: Dr. Teeth, Janice, Floyd, Zoot, Lips, and Animal, together known as the Electric Mayhem. The show’s not without…
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In Strawberry Mansion’s First Trailer, Pop-Up Ads Are Literal Nightmares
At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there were few stories quite as strange as co-directing/writing duo Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s Strawberry Mansion. The movie is about a world in which people’s dreams are taxed by the government, which often populates them with ads meant to fill their subconsciousnesses with the desire to buy consumer…