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In late June, it was announced that Reservation Dogs‘ third season would be its last.

“That’s a difficult line to write and a more difficult decision to make,” co-creator Sterlin Harjo said in an Instagram post announcing the show’s final season ahead of its Aug. 2 premiere. “Almost all television and film depictions about Native people are mostly inaccurate. And most of them have been untruthful.”

Co-created by Harjo and Taika Waititi and debuting in August 2021, the writer would go on to celebrate the “gift” of his series, which helped foment one of the first, major TV network pushes of modern Native and Indigenous storytelling. Reservation Dogs has offered a “different perspective of Indigenous people and our culture,” he wrote. “Most important of all, it has been a dream to collaborate and make a show that is entirely written by, directed by and stars Native people.”

The decision was...

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Authoritative to the point of exhausting, Macdonald's documentary compiles an awesome amount of footage, photos, interviews, etc – but then it's a big subject. Whether you really get to the man beyond the legend is debatable (this was made with Marley family backing), but there's much here you've never seen, from Bob's Rasta roots to his kick-around in London's Battersea Park.

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A French voice artist goes to La to plead for her job in this floppy comedy

Floppy, fun-free comedy in which French voice artiste Jeanne (Florence Foresti) travels to La to reason with Jennifer Marshall (Nikki Deloach), a Hollywood starlet whose decision to quit popular soap La Couples has bumped the happy-go-lucky Parisian out of work. Cue a guided tour of unfunny stereotypes (jive-talking street hustlers, hysterical Indian security guard, maniacal Swedish fitness instructor) that ends with Jeanne and her tacked-on love interest accidently knocking down part of a Hollywood landmark. Hollywoo needs a D, but it can have a big fat F.

Rating: 1/5

ComedyWorld cinemaHenry Barnes

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