Last summer, Sound of Freedom surprised many with a massive box office success that opened many people’s eyes to the ongoing reality of child exploitation. Now, a hit show from Investigation Discovery reveals that some of those children suffering abuse…
Last week, Max, formerly known as HBO, dropped not one but two trailers for the second season of House of the Dragon, a series based off of George R.R. Martin’s Fire & Blood. The show is a prequel to Game…
Now that Netflix’s The Crown has finally come to an end, one of the most expensive and elaborate TV series around is Feud, created by Ryan Murphy, Jaffe Cohen, and Michael Zam and aired on FX and Hulu. Its first…
I’ve been stating for a decade that men will save America from the forces of leftist darkness, and this election year should be the turning point. Because time is running out, as more young women turn to the dark side….
Last month, reporting here on the first part of the sixth and last season of The Crown, I was, if I say so myself, a mite snotty. I more or less accused the series’ creator, Peter Morgan, of shamelessly squeezing…
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever By Matt Singer (G.P. Putman’s Sons, 352 pages, $30) In the late 1960s, Gene Siskel was a young reporter at the Chicago Tribune and Roger Ebert a young reporter at the…
Guglielmo Marconi was stubborn. He probably got that from his mother, an Irish noblewoman who had moved to Italy to marry his father, an aristocrat from Porretta Terme, Italy. He also seems to have had no intention of fitting in…
For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a teacher and a resident preceptor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I began to watch more TV in…
I learned about the television industry the hard way as a kid. One Monday night in 1968, I turned on the TV to watch my favorite show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. For three and a half years, I’d enjoyed the…
Both of my grandfathers are dead. Both died abruptly. My father’s father passed away from a stroke when I was just 13. My father and I watched it happen. Or, rather, I watched my father watch it happen. The grave…