"Another Simple Favor," on Prime Video Thursday and starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, fails to recapture the fun of the original because its humor is rooted in mean-spirited sniping.

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I love theatre as much as the next person. All types and forms. But too much of one type, like say, umm, drama, can be taxing. Our nation’s capital has provided lots of theatre over the years in every ...

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