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Netflix’s ‘Dope’ Continues Its Edgy Exploration of the Drug Trade in Season 2
Features • Published on April 2018
The long winding road of a drug shipment, the addict with glassy eyes waiting for her fix, the Border Patrol agents checking every inch of a vehicle for contraband. These are some of…
‘Scandal’ Says Goodbye After Seven Seasons of High Octane Drama and Intrigue
Features • Published on April 2018
Just in time for the release of the Comey memos, ABC’s “Scandal” says goodbye after seven seasons with a series finale that ties up loose ends while delivering…
‘Super Troopers 2’ Brings Back Cult Stoner Comedy for a Canadian Romp
Features • Published on April 2018
“Super Troopers 2” defines throwback. 16 years after its predecessor premiered in theaters, it is practically oblivious to the passage of time. The Broken Lizard comedy team brings…
Fiery Visions and Middle Class Issues Close First Season of ‘Here and Now’
Features • Published on April 2018
So what exactly has Alan Ball sought to achieve with “Here and Now” as a series? The answer remains vague in the season…
‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ Journeys Deep Into the Life of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneer
Features • Published on April 2018
Elvis Presley has inspired countless documentaries both large and small. Yet HBO’s “Elvis Presley: The Searcher” sets itself apart from the rest. It is not interested in merely…
‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ Tackles Important Issues With Smart Humor
Features • Published on April 2018
Wyatt Cenac has a lot to say about many important issues. His new HBO show, fittingly titled “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas,” is a natural extension…
Richard Dormer Talks Hunting Killers in Time-Bending Series ‘Rellik’
Interviews • Published on April 2018
Richard Dormer is an actor traversing genres and eras on television and film. An actor from Northern Ireland with credits including HBO’s “Game of Thrones” where he plays Beric Dondarrion,…
‘The Royals’ New Villian Max Brown Dishes on the Etiquette and Scandal of Season 4
Interviews • Published on April 2018
Max Brown is cool refinement even as he portrays a vile villain in E!’s scandalous “The Royals.” Now entering its fourth season, the show continues…
‘Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare’ Gets Lost in Its Own Game
Features • Published on April 2018
“Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare” is another round of that classic parable about good looking students who party in the wrong place, with the wrong people, and somehow stumble…
‘Rampage’ Finds Dwayne Johnson Saving Chicago From Oversized Creatures
Features • Published on April 2018
This is a movie where the title literally captures what it’s all about. “Rampage,” roughly based on the video game of the same name, seeks to do nothing…
‘Howard’s End’ Updates a Classic Story With a Lush Adaptation
Features • Published on April 2018
In the world of “Howards End” where you are born and what your family name is could mean the difference between success and poverty. Starz’s new limited series…
Al Pacino Plays Disgraced Penn State Coach in HBO’s ‘Paterno’
Features • Published on April 2018
Joe Paterno had become an emperor of college football by the time a sexual abuse scandal took him down in 2011. In HBO’s “Paterno” he becomes a shell…
‘The Boss Baby: Back in Business’ Finds Big Laughs in Diaper Humor
Features • Published on April 2018
“The Boss Baby: Back in Business” brings the world of the 2017 Dreamworks movie “The Boss Baby” to Netflix as a series. It extends the gags and in-jokes…
Seth Rogen Fights Alzheimer’s Through Comedy With ‘Hilarity for Charity’
Features • Published on April 2018
“Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity” is a different sort of Netflix comedy special in that it’s actually a fundraiser. Seth Rogen himself is…
‘Lean on Pete’ Is a Poetic, Endearing Story of Loss and Discovery
Features • Published on April 2018
“Lean on Pete” has the authenticity of lives being experienced on the screen. It could have chosen to tell its story with a dozen clichés and a hundred…
‘Chappaquiddick’ Hauntingly Revisits Notorious Kennedy Scandal
Features • Published on April 2018
How astounding the lengths to which the powerful can go to cover up their own, bloody tracks. “Chappaquiddick” hauntingly recreates one of the great American political tragedies of…
‘A Quiet Place’ Skillfully Uses Silence for Chilling Horror
Features • Published on April 2018
“A Quiet Place” builds an overwhelming sense of tension by relying on absolute silence, then shattering it with bursts of sheer terror. Director John Krasinski…
‘Blockers’ Crashes Prom With Lots of Raunchy Antics
Features • Published on April 2018
“Blockers” wants to use idiocy to make a decent point. At its heart (which is in the right place), it deals with the clash between progressive sexual values…
Jason Clarke and Jim Gaffigan on Revisiting Kennedy Scandal in ‘Chappaquiddick’
Features • Published on April 2018
Late in the evening on July 18, 1969, Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy left a party accompanied by a young campaign staffer named Mary Jo Kopechne. The outing would end tragically as Kennedy drove…
‘Legion’ Season 2 Finds David Haller Struggling to Recover His Memories in Trippy Premiere
Features • Published on April 2018
Call it Mutant arthouse. After a grandiose first season which featured multiple genres mixed into one show, FX’s “Legion” opens its second outing as a trippy hallucination. If…