HBO went all-out for its adaptation of the wildly successful and critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us. For the first season, the network threw a $73 million budget at the project, an amount that exceeds the budget given…
This weekend, Doctor Who faces a villain more destructive than the Autons, more frightening than the Weeping Angels, and more devious than Magnus Greel. A Time Lord can survive that lot. The Woke Monster? That strikes as an insurmountable adversary….
The 2012 acquisition of Star Wars by the Disney Corporation is primarily a dud, despite a return on investment of 12 billion dollars since the purchase. The backlash is from fans who are critical of Disney’s leadership in making poor-quality…
My wife and I just finished the two-hour, movie-quality finale of Taylor Sheridan’s 1923, one of two “prequel” series to the entertainment juggernaut that was Yellowstone. We loved Yellowstone and appreciated the earlier prequel, 1883, but have had a more troubled…
We’re going to go a little light with this edition of the 5QT, because I think we need it. And I’m renewing my commitment to make the five things actually quick. So what follows is an expression of that, and…
Robert Altman’s film The Player (1992), which explores the dark underbelly of Hollywood with its story of an unscrupulous producer, Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), who murders a screenwriter, still resonates more than 30 years since its release. Seth Rogen has…
When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, almost everybody was familiar with the prime-time schedules of the major networks. In those long-ago days before cable TV, the Internet, home video recording, and DVDs, broadcast TV was the…
I’m not much of a movie person. I haven’t seen a TV show since Disney decided its Mysterious Benedict Society was simply too good to get a season three; and the last film I saw was Fiddler on the Roof…
Better late than never? We are mesmerized watching a five-year-old Netflix morality series called Madam Secretary, which follows a secretary of state who is skillfully portrayed by Téa Leoni. Remember the rich lady searching for her son on dinosaur-infested Isla…
