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I was watching a documentary about the comedian Gilbert Gottfried the other day and one of the interviewees, fellow comic David Attell, was marveling at Gilbert’s eccentricities, one of which was the fact that he still...

Creator Tony Tost (“Longmire”) and the rest of the team behind USA’s “Damnation” must have been tempted more than once to call it “Damn Nation,” because it is undeniably a show about the brutal, violent, complex...

Harvey Benschoter’s animated quickie “Turkey” will surely bring to mind two things: the work of Terry Gilliam and the flurry of activity that comes with shopping for and preparing a Thanksgiving dinner. “Turkey” follows the Gilliam...

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Playing through Ubisoft’s massive and gorgeous “Assassin’s Creed: Origins,” one can’t help but be reminded of a golden age of Hollywood epic that they don’t really make that often anymore, at least not successfully. Sure, we...

Real espionage isn’t Aston Martins and martinis. It isn’t constant globetrotting to sexy locales and bedding sexy women. It’s tedious. It’s monotonous. It’s work. Spies spend time holed up in offices, pouring over data—the type of...

A few months back, on the heels of a scandal where someone was not punished for sexual assault in any way, a friend asked me what I felt would be an appropriate reckoning. “I at least...

It seems Lyndon B Johnson, the once polarizing 36th President of the United States, is finally having his cinema moment. Recent portrayals including Tom Wilkinson in “Selma” and the formidable Bryan Cranston in the Broadway production...

The opening moments of “Lady Bird” accomplish so much so quickly, it takes your breath away. A mother and daughter are engaged in the time-honored tradition of the senior-year road trip to check out college campuses....

When I was about six years old or so, my mother was participating in an arts and crafts fair in Evanston, Illinois, and as a way to kill a couple of hours and keep my younger...