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Oct 2025
28m 47s

Only Murders in the Building, Hacks -- i...

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With the release season 5 of ‘Only Murders In The Building’, the films ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ and ‘Eleanor The Great,’ Elamin is joined by film and tv critics Radheyan Simonpillai and Teri Hart, and screenwriter and show-runner Anthony Q. Farrell to discuss the ways characters who are 60-plus show up in our film and tv programming today, and whether Hollywood is doing a good enough job at portraying these characters, as well as what it means to age.


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