📺 The media guide S6E17

Another week has officially begun... and Friday seems so far away...

But our first writing contest is officially coming to a close as we’ve announced the winners, paid our finalists and judges—a total well over $600—and are preparing to publish the three finalists next week.

But until then, we have a ton of new movies to talk about this week.

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📺 The American Revolution (PBS)

My wife and I have been spending a lot of time recently watching Ken Burns’ documentaries on PBS. So the timing for his latest couldn’t be better for this six-part, 12-hour docuseries about the war and founding of America.

💽 Through This Fire Across from Peter Balkan by The Mountain Goats

I’m not actually much of a Mountain Goat fan. At all. But I found myself really, really enjoying this one for some reason. It's an easy listen, but it's also quite melodic, and it gives off this sense that they had some grand plan when they went into the studio to record it and nailed every note. Plus it was a really lackluster week of new music...

🦸 DIE: Loaded #1 (Image)

Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans are back with the sequel to their previous 20-issue series. Die was a really interesting concept and Hans' painterly art was beautiful, but I found the story to drag on a bit. Still, I’m intrigued to see how they dive back into this world a year after the previous one.

🎥 Keeper

Osgood Perkins’ second movie of the year is out this Friday, following The Monkey and last year’s Longlegs. I have much higher hopes for this one, starring Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) as neither of those felt like they fully delivered on being a complete film.