The Brainerd Dispatch TV Week February 12th 2023

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Von Miller holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy after Super Bowl LVI

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Across

1. Star Wars letters

4. Fitness ratio

7. Cinematic Baggins portrayer

11. She played Ginger in “Gilligan’s Island”

13. Vacation spot

14. German money

15. In the movies

17. Eye affliction

18. Add-on to an email

20. Actor Aykroyd

21. Actor Keanu, who’s starred in many films that have won 12 Downs

25. Former sitcom “Green ___”

28. “All My Children” vixen

29. Ode or haiku

30. You name it

31. 2017 biographical film that won a 12 Down: “I, ___”

33. Musical key

34. “Citizen Kane” (1941) actor Everett

36. Take a wrong turn

37. “The Perks of Being a ___” (2012 film)

42. Hollywood star Idris

45. Relating to the heart

46. ___ de force

47. “Wheel of Fortune” buy (2)

48. Triumphant cry

49. Hourglass contents

50. Cinematic villain Kylo

51. 100 yrs.

Down

1. Ancient gathering place

2. Effort or force

3. Research facil.

4. Hollywood star Michael, of “Aliens” (1986)

5. Memory: Prefix

6. Word with ear or peace

7. Film nominated for a 12 Down “All Quiet on the ___” (2)

8. Horror film that won a 12 Down: “Get ___”

9. Access suffix

10. Anonymous Jane

12. Trophy celebrating excellence in film

16. Some TV’s

19. Once known as

22. Six-stringed instrument

23. O.A.S. member

24. Director Gus Van ___, who received a 12 Down nomination for “Good Will Hunting” (1997) and “Milk” (2008)

25. Places for rent: Abbr.

26. Self-assurance

27. Gambling mecca

32. “Wheel of Fortune” purchase (2)

33. He sang of Alice

35. “MacGyver” actor Dana

36. Netflix series “Down to Earth with Zac ___”

38. Like Silver’s rider

39. W.W. II server

40. Earth, to Mahler

41. 1998 film that won 5 12 Downs:

These

“Saving Private ___”

42. Sci-fi figures

43. Hawaii’s Mauna

44. Dog holder

Solution on page 12

The Fabelmans

After being taken to see his first film — “The Greatest Show on Earth” (1952), directed by Cecil B. DeMille — by his parents, Mitzi (Williams) and Burt (Dano) Fabelman, young Sammy Fabelman (LaBelle) becomes enchanted with cinema. Sammy aspires to become a filmmaker and begins to document his typical middle-

(Gyllenhaal) returned to the land of Avalonia with a mysterious energy-producing green plant. In the 25 years since his father’s disappearance, Searcher has transformed the plant — now named Pando — into a fuel source to power the town. But when Callisto Mal (Liu), the president of Avalonia, informs Searcher that the power of the Pando is failing,

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class suburban Jewish family. When the family moves to Phoenix in 1957 for Burt’s new job — and with Mitzi insisting that Burt’s business partner, Bennie Loewy (Rogen), join them — Sammy’s love of filmmaking is tested and he is torn between compromising his art for his family.

Director:StevenSpielberg.Stars: MichelleWilliams,GabrielLaBelle,PaulDano,JuddHirsch,Seth Rogen,JuliaButters,SophiaKopera,JeannieBerlin,Keeley Karsten,RobinBartlett.2022.151 mins.Drama.

Strange World

After family patriarch Jaeger Clade (Quaid) went missing while on an adventure, his son Searcher

Searcher, his wife, Meridian (Union), their teenage son, Ethan (Young-White), and their dog, Legend, embark on a journey to save Avalonia.

Directors:DonHall,QuiNguyen. Stars:JakeGyllenhaal,Jaboukie Young-White,GabrielleUnion, DennisQuaid,LucyLiu,Karan Soni,AlanTudyk.2022.82mins. Family.Animation.

Savage Salvation

Following the death of his beloved new fiancé, Ruby Red (Fitzgerald), from an overdose, Shelby John (Huston) — a recovering addict himself — vows swift justice for the junkies and dealers who are responsible for selling Ruby Red contaminated drugs. When John’s quest for ven-

geance overwhelms the entire town, only grizzled Sheriff Mike Church (De Niro) and Detective Zeppelin (Williams) can rein in the violence before John does irreparable damage with his nail gun. Director:RandallEmmett.Stars: JackHuston,RobertDeNiro,John Malkovich,WillaFitzgerald, MeadowWilliams,Quavo,Swen Temmel,WinterAveZoli.2022.81 mins.Action.

Paul Dano, Gabriel LaBelle and Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans”

Our

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Late Laughs

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

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“Honey, we’re spending too much on entertainment so either we cancel one of our streaming services or I shove your grandpa into the river. Which is it: Netflix or P-Pop?”

changing their official font from Times New Roman to Calibri. It feels like this is the government’s attempt to be like, “We’re fun. We’re naughty.” Yep, our government is changing fonts. Yep. When you heard that, President Zelenskyy was like, “Still here. This is still happening. We’ll take anything. We’ll take tanks, missiles, slingshots, boomerangs.”

changing their official font from Times New Roman to Calibri. It feels like this is the government’s attempt to be like, “We’re fun. We’re naughty.” Yep, our government is changing fonts. Yep. When you heard that, President Zelenskyy was like, “Still here. This is still happening. We’ll take anything. We’ll take tanks, missiles, slingshots, boomerangs.”

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

his team sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting that they unblock his account. I’m actually surprised Trump wants to get back on Facebook. ... Isn’t Facebook just an unpleasant annual reminder that Don Jr. and Eric were born? Facebook said they are going to “look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.” This is like Jurassic Park saying they’re going to ask around to see if it’s cool to let the raptors out again.

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The Taliban — they’ve been making headlines this week after they started buying blue check marks on Twitter. That is not good. I don’t want that. Now Twitter might be full of awful men saying terrible things about women.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

The U.S. has reached its

The Taliban — they’ve been making headlines this week

$31.4 trillion debt ceiling. Now, normally Congress automatically raises the debt limit as needed, but House Republicans are refusing in order to “leverage the standoff to extract major spending cuts ... on social programs ... including Social Security and Medicare.” That is an insane negotiating tactic. That’s pretty drastic. That’s like a husband saying,

$31.4 trillion debt ceiling. Now, normally Congress automatically raises the debt limit as needed, but House Republicans are refusing in order to

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

“Honey, we’re spending too much on entertainment so either we cancel one of our streaming services or I shove your grandpa into the river. Which is it: Netflix or P-Pop?”

A new poll found that President Biden’s approval rating has not been affected by the classified documents scandal. Today, Biden said, “In that case, there’s another 100 documents stashed in the pool house. Let’s just get that out.”

The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy Fallon

A new poll found that President Biden’s approval

Fortunately for Brett Maher, the Cowboys won [on Jan. 16]; it’s the first time they ever beat Tom Brady. He was 7-0 against Dallas, lifetime. Now he’s 7-1. Brady was reportedly so upset after the game he ate a carb. Just one, but, you know, those things will kill you. This could turn out to be Tom Brady’s last game for Tampa Bay.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Fortunately for Brett Maher, the Cowboys won [on Jan. 16]; it’s the first time they ever beat Tom Brady. He was 7-0 against Dallas, lifetime. Now he’s 7-1. Brady was reportedly so upset after the game he ate a carb. Just one, but, you know, those things will kill you. This could turn out to be Tom Brady’s last game for Tampa Bay.

George Santos, despite being exposed as a fraud — this guy has an almost comical list of lies to his name now — was assigned to not one but two committees. New speaker Kevin McCarthy put him on the Science Committee and the Space and Technology Committee, which makes sense because he’s the only congressman who found a cure for cancer and successfully manned a mission to Mars, all this year alone.

Meanwhile, [Donald Trump is] desperately trying to get back on Facebook. You know,

George Santos, despite being exposed as a fraud — this guy has an almost comical list of lies to his name now — was assigned to not one but two committees. New speaker Kevin McCarthy put him on the Science Committee and the Space and Technology Committee, which makes sense because he’s the

his team sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg requesting that they unblock his account. I’m actually surprised Trump wants to get back on Facebook. ... Isn’t Facebook just an unpleasant annual reminder that Don Jr. and Eric were born? Facebook said they are going to “look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.” This is like Jurassic Park saying they’re going to ask around to see if it’s cool to let the raptors out again.

Late Night With Seth Meyers

According to a new poll, President Biden would defeat former president Trump in a hypothetical 2024 election rematch by eight points. Pretty bad, but not as defeated as I feel hearing about that poll. Can we not do this yet? It’s January. The only thing I want to hear less than a presidential poll is a Christmas carol.

Late Night With Seth Meyers

According to a new poll, President Biden would defeat former president Trump in a hypothetical 2024 election rematch by eight points. Pretty bad, but not as defeated as I feel hearing about that poll. Can we not do this yet? It’s January. The only thing I want to hear less than a presidential poll is a Christmas carol.

In a series of posts yesterday on Truth Social, former president Trump pushed back against claims that he illegally stored classified files at Mar-a-Lago and accused federal agents of planting documents inside of empty folders he had taken. Oh, you are trying anything. That’s like telling the police, “Someone else put the cocaine there. I just collect tiny plastic baggies.”

In a series of posts yesterday on Truth Social, former president Trump pushed back against claims that he illegally stored classified

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CHANNEL GUIDE

STREAMING NOW

“You” - Season 4, Part 1

The skin-crawling story that took the digital world by storm returns to Netflix with its fourth season Thursday, Feb. 9, when the first five episodes of “You” drop with a bloody bang. Keep an eye out for Part 2, set to drop in March. Based on “What would you do for love?”

Caroline Kepnes’ bestselling novel, the series so far has followed dangerously obsessive and brilliant book store manager Joe (Penn Badgley, “Gossip Girl”) as he becomes transfixed by women, doing everything in his power to become central to their lives before the story comes to a bloody conclusion. This season, however, is set to turn the story on its head, as Joe may have finally met his match. While adjusting to his new life as a professor, Joe tries to make amends with a woman he stalked from halfway around the world and avoids becoming the target of another killer. Meanwhile, he appears to have found a kindred spirit in Rhys (Ed Speleers, “Outlander”), one of his students, whom he calls a “good man in a cruel world” (per the show’s official Instagram). But fans will have to wait to see how exactly their relationship unfolds. Created for Netflix by Greg Berlanti (“The Flash”) and Sera Gamble (“Supernatural”), the new season also stars Tati Gabrielle (“The 100”), Charlotte Ritchie (“Ghosts”), Lukas Gage (“The White Lotus”), Adam James (“Vigil”), Sean Pertwee (“Gotham”), Tilly Keeper (“EastEnders”), Stephen Hagan (“Lucky Man”) and Amy-Leigh Hickman (“The Dumping Ground”).

“10 Days of a Good Man” (2023)

The first film of a planned trilogy based on the books by Mehmet Eroglu, the new Turkish crime drama “10 Days of a Good Man” premieres Friday, Feb. 10, on Netflix. The film tells the story of Sadik (Nejat Isler, “Winter Sleep,” 2014), a lawyer turned private investigator, as he takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest. As Sadik goes from good to bad, and bad to indifferent, he tries to figure out what it really means to be a good person. Written for the screen by Eroglu and Damla Serim (“Cukur”), the film is directed by Uluc Bayraktar (“The Choice”).

Ilayda Akdogan (“My Brother, My Love,” 2018), Nur Fettahoglu (“Bozkir”), Ilayda Alisan (“Seversin”), Baris Falay (“Ezel”), Riza Kocaoglu (“Cukur”), Gozde Kaya (“Ramo”), Erdal Yildiz (“Halka”) and Yurdaer Okur (“The Protector”) also star.

“Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence”

The new three-part documentary miniseries “Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence” gets to the bottom of it all when it premieres Thursday, Feb. 9, on Hulu. In 2010, at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, con man and former CIA agent Larry Ray used overt mind control, abuse and psychological torture to exercise and maintain his control and influence over the group of young people who became entangled in his sex cult. This new series provides unprecedented access to the case, featuring first-hand interviews with Larry Ray’s survivors, as well as personal audio tapes and video recordings that weave together the grim story of his cult, from its origins to its recent demise. With Ray convicted of sex trafficking, extortion, conspiracy and other charges in 2019, the last members and survivors find their own ways forward.

Directed by Zach Heinzerling (“McCartney 3, 2, 1”), “Stolen Youth” is executive produced by Heinzerling, Jon Bardin (“Fauci,” 2021), Dan Cogan (“The Invitation,” 2015) and Liz Garbus (“What Happened, Miss Simone?” 2015).

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (2022)

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Gabrielle Zevin, the 2022 dramedy film “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry” makes its Hulu debut Friday, Feb. 10. A.J. Fikry’s (Kunal Nayyar, “The Big Bang Theory”) life is not going the way he wanted it to or expected it to. After the tragic death of his wife, and with his bookstore failing, finding out that his prized rare edition of Poe poems has been stolen is just the cherry on top of his trip to emotional and financial rock bottom. But, when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, the unexpected arrival gives Fikry a second chance, a new lease on life and a love greater than he could have ever imagined. Directed by Hans Canosa (“Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac,” 2010) with a screenplay by Zevin, the film also stars Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Lucy Hale (“Ragdoll”), Scott Foley (“Scandal”), David Arquette (“Never Been Kissed,” 1999) and Lauren Stamile (“Burn Notice”).

“Marvel Studios’ Assembled: The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

“Marvel Studios’ Assembled” returns to Disney+ with an all-new episode, “The Making of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” which premieres on the Disney streamer Wednesday, Feb. 8. The comprehensive and immersive documentary series has already launched episodes on the making of “Black Widow” (2021), “WandaVision,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021), “Eternals” (2021), “Hawkeye” and more. This newest installment focuses on the backstory, special effects, casting and overall development of the recent (and much lauded) “Black Panther” (2018) sequel, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (2022). The film is so beloved, in fact, that it’s earned the Marvel Cinematic Universe its first ever Oscar nod: it was recently announced that Angela Bassett earned a nomination at this year’s Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Queen Ramonda. The sequel (which is available to stream on Disney+ now) follows the the story of the citizens of Wakanda as they move forward after the tragic death of King T’Challa (played in the original film by the late Chadwick Boseman). As T’Challa’s friends and family — including his mother, Queen Romonda (Bassett), and his sister Shuri (Letitia Wright, “Death on the Nile,” 2022) — look towards the future, they face an unprecedented threat when an outsider’s search for vibranium unleashes a force like nothing the world has ever seen. Through intimate behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, viewers experience the hard work and dedication of the cast and crew as they take on the incredible challenge of creating a story worthy of T’Challa, with a chapter befitting the late king. Written by Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole, the team behind the original, smash-hit “Black Panther” (2018) film, “Wakanda Forever” is also directed by Coogler.

“Clarkson’s Farm” - Season 2

British journalist and TV personality Jeremy Clarkson (famous for “Top Gear” and Amazon’s “The Grand Tour”) pulls his boots back on and gets down and dirty in the second season of the Amazon reality series “Clarkson’s Farm,” premiering Friday, Feb. 10, on Prime Video. The first season saw Clarkson, who is definitely not a farmer, take on a new venture when he buys and learns how to tend to a British farm, following him through his first year in an informative, intense, backbreaking and sometimes heartbreaking journey, as he grappled with the worst farming weather in decades, disobedient animals, unresponsive crops and an unexpected pandemic. Heading into its second season, “Clarkson’s Farm” catches up with the hapless new farmer as he introduces some new crops and animals, tries to diversify his operation with a restaurant, and relies heavily on his farmhand, Kaleb, and a host of local experts to get them through the year. Directed by Will Yapp (“The Circus,” 2012), the series is executive produced by Clarkson, Peter Fincham (“The Chelsea Detective”) and Andy Wilman (“The Grand Tour”).

“Somebody I Used To Know” (2023)

“Community” and “GLOW” star Alison Brie teams up with husband Dave Franco (“The Afterparty”) in the new rom-com “Somebody I Used to Know,” premiering Friday, Feb. 10, on Prime. When workaholic TV producer Ally (Brie) faces a major professional setback, she runs back to her hometown to seek out some familiar comfort. When she spends a whirlwind evening reminiscing with her first love, Sean (Jay Ellis, “Top Gun: Maverick,” 2022), she starts questioning everything about the life she now leads and the person she’s become. To make things even more complicated, Sean is now married to Cassidy (Kiersey Clemons, “Dope,” 2015), whose creativity and confidence remind Ally of who she used to be. Written by Franco and Brie, who also act as executive producers on the film, “Somebody I Used to Know” is directed by Franco. Danny Pudi (“Community”), Olga Merediz (“In the Heights,” 2021), Haley Joel Osment (“The Sixth Sense,” 1999), Julie Hagerty (“Marriage Story,” 2019), Ayden Mayeri (“I Love That For You”), Amy Sedaris (“BoJack Horseman”), Sam Richardson (“Veep”) and Zoe Chao (“The Afterparty”) also star.

Behind the scenes of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

Jeremy Clarkson as seen in “Clarkson’s Farm”

Penn Badgley and Ed Speleers in “You”

David Arquette in “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry”