You don’t have to have seen the 1996 teen flick The Craft (I haven’t) to loathe its 2020 sequel, The Craft: Legacy, which was written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones, and which is newly available now on HBO Max, Hulu,…
In the middle of the night, Clara (Zoe Kazan), a 30-ish housewife, creeps out of bed, wakes up her two young sons, Anthony (Jack Fulton) and Jude (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong), and, while her husband, Richard (Esben Smed), sleeps on unawares in…
Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will be no more stories like this.” By “this,” I mean personal accounts of growing up poor in an immigrant Jewish…
When Sex and the City premiered on HBO in 1998, it was packaged as a post-sexual revolution look at four New York City-based professional women pondering the dating and career questions of the day. Based on Candice Bushnell’s bestselling book, the series starred…
Hate them, like most intellectuals, or love them, like the majority of Dutch television viewers, everyone in the Netherlands knows or has heard of the Meiland family. They star in their own reality television show, which began in 2019. That…
We may be living in the golden age of funny insurance ads. (Funny ads about insurance, not ads about funny insurance.) You find the ever-amiable “Jake from State Farm” trying to persuade Aaron Rogers and Patrick Mahomes that regular people…
Washington — Are you familiar with the work of Professor Simon Gottschalk? I have only become familiar with his work recently, but I commend it to you. He is a professor of sociology with the University of Nevada at Las…
Lesley-Ann Brandt, the actress who portrayed the demons Mazikeen and Lilith on the Netflix series Lucifer, published an essay Monday in which she revealed that she had an abortion in 2014. The actress used her story to advocate against the…
Being unblessed by fatherhood (thus far), I have little idea of what boys today are watching on TV, the few not playing video games anyway. But in perusing the 2021 primetime network schedule, I found nothing I would want to…
