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‘Angel From Montgomery’: The story of John Prine’s most unforgettable song

As John Prine tells it, he just couldn’t write another song about old people. “I said everything I wanted to in ‘Hello In There,’” Prine recalled saying roughly 50 years ago to a friend as the pair brainstormed song ideas together in a Chicago apartment. “I can’t do it.” But Prine, then a letter carrier […]

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In Starz’s enjoyably escapist ‘Outlander,’ a relevant story line about finding the cure

For the greatest escape in times of unsettling emotional needs, what embrace could feel more satisfying than that of Starz’s romantic, time-hopping drama series “Outlander?” Fans have been saying as much for years, happily falling into the attentive, 18th-century arms of Scottish highlander Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). Or into the arms of his brilliant wife, […]

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Review: Creepy cult drama ‘The Other Lamb’ spins a beautiful but murky parable of female revenge

The young actress Raffey Cassidy has a gaze that is somehow both inquisitive and ferocious; it poses questions that could cut through glass. If you saw her in “Vox Lux” or “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” you might recall her presence more than anything else, her watchful intelligence and eerie, preternatural calm. She’s as […]