Movie

There was a time when a new sitcom debuting on NBC would garner some major press. Don’t get me wrong. There have been comedy duds for as long as comedy has been on television, and the...

This month, I’m spotlighting two short films directed by an actor you may know from “Silicon Valley,” “Veep,” “The Office” and “Avenue 5.” Zach Woods has appeared in some of the best half-hour comedy shows of...

The first new drama of the year drops on FOX tonight and it’s a cautionary tale for other TV creators as to how not to deploy manipulative tropes and thinly drawn characters through a potentially engaging thriller....

Trying to describe what Joan Didion means to me as a writer is tough, I don’t know how to do it. Like Hunter Thompson or Lucy Sante it’s just one of those things in my DNA. How...

The script for episode 73 of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” called for an “icky sweet Betty White type” to play a new character, the host of “The Happy Homemaker,” a cooking and decorating show on the...

To All Our Cherished Critics, Contributors, Readers and Subscribers:Happy New Year! I hope all of you have had a healthy and enjoyable holiday season. I am deeply grateful to each and every one of you for your contributions, whether it be...

Start the new year with a beautiful box set from a group of creative souls who are keeping traditions alive. It’s not just that the geniuses of Cartoon Saloon embrace the increasingly lost art of hand-drawn...

Many films over the years have utilized New Year’s Eve parties as plot points. Action buffs can watch things like the disaster perennial “The Poseidon Adventure” and the once-futuristic and still-potent “Strange Days.” Those with a...

It’s hard to figure out at first what is going on with Leda. The woman with the symbolic Yeatsian name is a professor and translator, taking a brief vacation in Greece, and looking forward to relaxation...

Everyone’s favorite bounty hunter from the original three “Star Wars” films gets his own series, and his own massive redemption arc, in the heavily anticipated new series “The Book of Boba Fett.” We were re-introduced to...