Sometimes a television series can’t decide what it wants to be when it grows up — or whether it wants to grow up at all. Case in point: Bridgerton, now on Netflix. One knows from the previews that it will…

One suspects that there was curiosity, and not a little trepidation, when old fans of All Creatures Great and Small heard a television remake was in the works. The original television episodes depicting the life of Yorkshire country veterinarians circa…

Conservatives and culture are like old men and the weather: everybody’s always complaining, but nobody ever does anything about it. And when someone does decide to do something, suddenly there are those coming out of the woodwork to tell them…

While the direct release of blockbusters to streaming services has gained controversial attention of late, lost in the shuffle are films that might have expected modest yet successful box-office runs. Consider I’m Your Woman, which had only a limited theatrical…

Just as COVID-induced starvation for new movies was beginning to set in, with superhero fans gnawing on the bones of obscure 1980s action numbers, DC Comics rides to the rescue with, well, Wonder Woman 1984. The film literally opens with…

Watching the hit Netflix series Barbarians can be an exercise in divided loyalties. On the one hand, the Romans are, along with their Greek muses, one of the wellsprings of Western civilization. On the other hand, as the excitement of…

J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, caught the wave of a certain moment, appearing in the wake of Donald Trump’s surprisingly easy defeat of establishment GOP candidates whose brands included everything from libertarian to social conservative to blue-blood to Reaganite…

Anyone growing up watching police dramas on television in the ’70s and ’80s could hardly escape getting to know Southern California. Producers throughout the greater Los Angeles area used that vast metropolitan space as a giant and conveniently located set…

In a state as thinly populated as Montana, there aren’t many surprises in major political races, especially when it comes to the top prize — a U.S. Senate seat. Montana has only one congressional district and a handful of statewide…

In the fight over Obamacare, one of the hottest points of contention has been the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an unelected body with powers so broad that it has been called a “super-legislature” by some, and a potential “death…