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HBO Brings Bestseller ‘My Brilliant Friend’ to Life in Grand New Series
Features • Published on November 2018
HBO’s adaptation of “My Brilliant Friend” has the power of evoked memories. It manages to fully conjure that feeling of recounting events from the past, both raw and…
Ben Stiller’s ‘Escape at Dannemora’ Dramatizes One of the Craziest Modern Prison Escapes
Features • Published on November 2018
The story of the 2015 Clinton Correctional Facility escape is one of those examples of how truth can be stranger than fiction. Showtime’s new limited series “Escape at Dannemora…
Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin Face the Perils of Age in Netflix’s ‘The Kominsky Method’
Features • Published on November 2018
Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” plays like a more brutally realistic version of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” It’s about men growing old in L.A.’s showbiz culture, still sharing laughs and…
Netflix’s ‘Narcos: Mexico’ Chronicles the Bloody Rise of the Guadalajara Cartel
Features • Published on November 2018
“Narcos: Mexico” is about the entrepreneurial spirit being practiced with bullets. It charts the rise of the modern cartel system in Mexico, which leads of course to the…
The Coen Brothers Revise the Western With Darkly Funny ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’
Features • Published on November 2018
There is something about the Old West that continues to fascinate Joel and Ethan Coen. Maybe it’s the idea of wide spaces as…
Steve McQueen’s Masterful Thriller ‘Widows’ Delivers a Powerful Cocktail of Crime and Drama
Features • Published on November 2018
It must be said from the start, “Widows” is one of the great modern crime dramas. As a film it works on multiple levels, never losing its substance…
Stan Lee Impacted Millions With His Wondrous Stories and Versatile Imagination
Pop Culture • Published on November 2018
Stan Lee, the creator of some of the most enduring comic book personas of all time has left us at the age of 95. There is not a corner of contemporary popular…
Jim Carrey Gets Close to Total Meltdown in the Season Finale of ‘Kidding’
Features • Published on November 2018
For its entire first season, Showtime’s “Kidding” has worked like a morbidly fascinating train wreck in slow motion. Seeing Jim Carrey in this…
‘Parts Unknown’ Series Finale Journeys Into the New York Culture That Shaped Anthony Bourdain
Features • Published on November 2018
In the most fitting fashion, “Parts Unknown” says goodbye by bringing Anthony Bourdain back to the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It…
The Duplass Brothers Invite Us Into ‘Room 104’ For Another Season of Strangeness
Features • Published on November 2018
HBO is still chasing after “Black Mirror” with season two of “Room 104.” Packaged as an anthology of strange and eerie shorts, some running no longer than 20…
Claire Foy Goes Full Action Mode for ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’
Features • Published on November 2018
The times would seem ripe for the character of Lisbeth Salander. A bisexual rebel who uses technology to defy the system and bring down fascists and misogynists, she is one of the most…
‘The Grinch’ Is a Lighter Take on a Christmas Classic
Features • Published on November 2018
“The Grinch” takes the classic Dr. Seuss tale of a Christmas-hating grump and turns it into a surprisingly mundane animated movie. There are beautiful images to behold, full…
Family Ties Take a Hit in the Season 1 Finale of ‘Mayans M.C.’
Features • Published on November 2018
“Mayans M.C.” could possibly be the strangest family show on television. The season finale is all about the bonds that bind brothers, kill cousins and send outlaws on…
‘The Front Runner’ Energetically Revisits Gary Hart’s Rise and Scandalous Fall
Features • Published on November 2018
The tale of former Colorado Senator Gary Hart has suddenly gained a new relevance. His was the story of a man who could have been president, but personal baggage brought it all down.
Everyone Has a Price to Pay in ‘The Deuce’ Season 2 Finale
Features • Published on November 2018
In HBO’s “The Deuce” no job is easy and there is always a price to pay. Season two closes with all of its characters reaching crossroads in their…
‘House of Cards’ Final Season Puts the Power in the Hands of Robin Wright
Features • Published on November 2018
There’s a new president in office for the sixth and final season of Netflix’s “House of Cards.” After you know who was fired last year, amid clouds of…
Amazon’s ‘Homecoming’ Stars Julia Roberts in a Thriller Done the Old-Fashioned Way
Features • Published on November 2018
Amazon’s new series “Homecoming” is an old-fashioned thriller designed for the era of peak TV. It stars Julia Roberts as one of those…
Rami Malek Rocks Hard as Freddie Mercury in ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
Features • Published on November 2018
“Bohemian Rhapsody” shows a lot yet says so little. The highlight of this great-looking yet hot-aired film is Rami Malek, who channels legendary…
‘Ray Donovan’ Moves to New York for a Sixth Season of Bloody Schemes
Features • Published on October 2018
“Ray Donovan” moves to the East Coast for the beginning of its sixth season but of course much scandal follows. After several deaths and blows to the main…
High School Is a Battleground of Dark Forces in Netflix’s ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’
Features • Published on October 2018
Netflix’s “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” takes the comic book character of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, who was also the subject of a successful late 90s sitcom, and transforms…