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Luke Newberry and David Walmsley star as Kieren and Rick in “In the Flesh.”

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Pussy Riot and zombies coming out of the closet

Punk music is a dangerous game in some corners of the world, as detailed in the revealing HBO documentary “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.”

Directed by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, and assembled rapidly after a six-month shoot, “Pussy Riot” presents as full a portrait as we’ve seen of the three balaclava-wearing young women arrested and imprisoned following their protest performance at a Moscow cathedral last year.

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Tom Riley stars as Leonardo Da Vinci in “Da Vinci’s Demons.”

Da Vinci gets sexy, silly makeover; ‘Rectify’ refreshing

With a Ziggy Stardust haircut and gym-rat pecs bursting through a punk-perfect leather jacket, the Leonardo of “Da Vinci’s Demons” could pass for a judge on “The Voice.”

That’s some Renaissance man.

More lighthearted (if no sillier) than “Spartacus,” the gladiator fest it’s replacing, “Demons” is a historian’s nightmare and an idler’s diversion.

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Freddy Rodriguez and Cam Gigandet (from left) perform in “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden,” airing Nov. 4 on the National Geographic Channel.

‘SEAL Team Six’: Faux Pathos

Navy SEALS and Harvey Weinstein have at least one thing in common: Great timing.

If it weren’t airing two nights before Election Day, National Geographic Channel’s passable, Weinstein-produced “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden” would have come and gone with remarkable stealth.

Arriving two months before Kathryn Bigelow’s similarly themed big-screen “Zero Dark Thirty,” “SEAL” recounts the hunting and killing of the 9/11 mastermind.

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