Amazon Releases Synopsis for Lord of the Rings TV Series — Will It Be Any Good? By Jack Butler January 16, 2021 There remains much promise in the Amazon TV series.
Who Would Want the Liability Associated with a ‘Trump TV’? By Jim Geraghty January 15, 2021 The odds of a ‘Trump TV’ being formed — and companies wanting to advertise on it — are much smaller today.
The Brilliant, Scabrous Satire of The Boys By Kyle Smith November 30, 2020 Amazon’s dystopian superhero show skewers a gallery of cultural icons who richly deserve the treatment.
Math and Romance Meet By Sarah Schutte November 13, 2020 Directed by Chuck Jones, Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line is an animated delight.
Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Dies at 80 By Mairead McArdle November 8, 2020 The game-show host had been battling stage-four pancreatic cancer since 2019.
Lincoln Project to Break Into TV after Election By Mairead McArdle October 27, 2020 The Lincoln Project already launched a wildly successful podcast in June and has two shows that it streams on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.
Borat Can’t Recapture His Mid-2000s Magic By Robert VerBruggen October 21, 2020 The latest film is a decent distraction but nothing more.
How a Black Community Learned to Fight Back By Kyle Smith September 28, 2020 Steve McQueen’s Mangrove is a timely look at a conflict between blacks decrying harassment and white police officers.
Still Amusing Ourselves to Death By Cameron Hilditch September 13, 2020 What Neil Postman got right — and what he failed to predict.
Lovecraft Country Is Systemic Racism Entertainment™ By Armond White August 26, 2020 HBO’s Smollett Effect goes from black exploitation to race manipulation.