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Happy Thanksgiving! Please allow me to share with you in gratitude a few selected highlights from my series “My Happy Place.” As you gather with family and friends today please remember those who may not be as...

John Lennon: “I’d like a fifth Beatle.” Paul McCartney: “It’s bad enough with four.”This exchange occurred in January, 1969, on Day 15 of the 22-day marathon rehearsal process for a television special/album/concert/documentary (the nature of the...

Finding something the whole family can watch during the holidays is a perennial challenge. It’s as much a part of tradition as turkey on Thanksgiving and Christmas carols on the radio soon after. This holiday season,...

This time next year, we should have a much better idea of the NCU—the Nintendo Cinematic Universe. If you’re a fan of video games or bizarre casting news you also might have heard about the upcoming...

“The Humans” is a film that will make you thankful that not every Thanksgiving dinner is like the one depicted in this movie. Written and directed by Stephen Karam, who adapts his own Tony-winning 2016 Broadway...

Over the years that I have contributed to this site, I have penned a number of tributes to people who have recently passed away. Although “enjoy” may not be exactly the word I am looking for here,...

“Your whole thing is that you’re low-key. It’s a very hard brand to sell.” The most by-the-numbers member of The Avengers is the first to get his own show this week in the two-episode launch of...

If “The Godfather” and “Succession” had an ostentatious lovechild, it would look something like Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” the master’s sweeping yet wildly imbalanced rendering of the titular and celebrated fashion empire’s scandalous history, full...

Few filmmakers navigate the intimate revelations of performance as skillfully as Ryūsuke Hamaguchi. Across his unobtrusive, gently existential melodramas of connection and longing, characters move gradually toward self-knowledge through patterns of role-play, repetition, and rehearsal, acting...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “21 Jump Street””Addams Family Values””Ali””Bram Stoker’s Dracula””Last Action Hero””Let Me In””Moneyball””The Nightingale””A River Runs Through It””Snakes on a Plane” 10 NEW TO HBO MAX “A Clockwork Orange””Contagion””Eyes Wide Shut””Full Metal Jacket””In the...