Amazon‘s new series Forever, which debuts Friday, has been as shrouded in mystery as anything in recent Peak TV memory. For a long time, it was simply referred to as “Untitled Fred Armisen/Maya Rudolph comedy series,” and the identities of those stars and co-creators Alan Yang (Master of None) and …
Read More »'The Little Stranger' Review: A Haunting Meditation on Time
The way Focus Features kept cancelling scheduled screenings of The Little Stranger made me think it had a stiff on its hands. Hardly. Though this meditation on the past — disguised as a haunted-house thriller — has its faults, the film is better than most of the junk cluttering the …
Read More »Best TV to See in Sept.: 'The Good Place,' Jim Carrey Goes Crazy, 'Mayans M.C.'
Critical and popular favorites come back on the scene (The Deuce! The Good Place! American Horror Story!); buzzy new series show off some famous faces (Jim Carrey! Lil Rel Howery! The grotesque facemasks of The Purge!); and — saints preserve us — Paddy’s Pub re-opens for business. Here’s what you …
Read More »'True Detective' Season Three Unveils Moody First Teaser
Mahershala Ali is on the case in the upcoming third season of True Detective in a new teaser trailer released by HBO Sunday night. The Oscar-winning actor stars in the new season of the anthology series, which premieres in January 2019, alongside Mamie Gummer, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy and Carmen …
Read More »Jim Acosta Talks Fact-Checking Trump, Sarah Sanders Showdown on 'Colbert'
Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, talked on Wednesday’s Late Show about having to “fact-check” President Trump. The reporter detailed the history of Trump’s combative relationship with CNN, which began after Acosta asked the president during a January 11th, 2017 press conference about the explosive Steele Dossier –a line …
Read More »See Stephen Colbert Blast Trump's 'Seeing and Reading' Remark
Stephen Colbert tackled President Donald Trump’s latest troubling remark and his attempt to pull his critics’ security clearance on Tuesday’s Late Show. Colbert opened his monologue by repeating Trump’s quip: “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening …Oh good, I was worried because what …
Read More »HBO Wants to Become Netflix – Here's Why It Shouldn't
For most of the last 20 years, HBO has been the player the rest of the TV business was chasing and imitating. But a recent meeting between the current head of HBO and one of his new corporate bosses from AT&T suggests the cable giant may soon be following someone …
Read More »'Whitney' Review: Portrait of Late Singer Puts Tragedy Front and Center
Watching this electrifying and empathetic look at the life of Whitney Houston, you keep wanting to reach into the screen and nudge Whitney toward a different path – one that ends a lot differently. That’s wishful thinking, of course, not to mention hopelessly naïve. You can’t trace the downward trajectory …
Read More »'Boundaries' Review: Road-Trip Comedy Gets Boost From Grumpy Old Plummer
Let us now praise Christopher Plummer, the 88-year-old actor, Oscar winner and professional savior of nearly scuttled prestige projects. He’s played everyone from Rommel to Kipling, Mike Wallace to Sherlock Holmes; played everything from New World imperialists to old-world explorers, tycoons to Klingons. Maybe your favorite Plummer is the singing-family …
Read More »'Hereditary': Inside the Making of a Modern Horror Classic
Standing in the corner of A24’s office, amid the bustle of the film distribution company’s normal workday chaos, is a pale young man sipping a smoothie. Tucked away from the various publicity folks and vice presidents and other indie-movie mover-and-shaker types talking frantically into their phones, he stands out. Maybe …
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