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In a recent Fresh Air interview with Steven Soderbergh, Terry Gross made an insightful observation that was easy to miss: Ironically, more people will...
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In a recent Fresh Air interview with Steven Soderbergh, Terry Gross made an insightful observation that was easy to miss: Ironically, more people will...
Within the first three stories of a TV series, the tone and overall scope of the series is standardized. Also, the primary (or secondary)...
Interview conducted by Lauren Berkley The season finale of BBC America’s Orphan Black airs this Saturday, June 1, and it has already been renewed...
Massachusetts native filmmaker Adam Green is a busy guy. In the next few weeks, season two of his television series, Holliston premieres on Fear...
This is the final edition of Why Love the 90’s? I decided to ask T.J. what he felt was the most underrated piece of...
Discussions of this season’s “Game of Thrones” have been dominated by accusations that the show’s gratuitous nudity is sexist — women are constantly baring...
Everyone loves Muppets. Everyone. Thanks to The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and various Muppet movies, everyone knows the big ones. But there are dozens...
Interview conducted by Lauren Berkley Defiance has become SyFy’s newest hit, with its combination of science fiction, special effects, and character-driven drama, which is...
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As any teenage nerd will tell you (and I still remember being one myself, oh so long ago), being into sci-fi (or for that...
Interview conducted by Lauren BerkleyPhotograph by Russell Baer Even if you don’t recognize the name Carrie Preston, I’d be willing to bet you most...
Mad Men The last two seasons of “Mad Men” were by far the best of the series; so far the current season — also...
Christopher McDonald is one of those actors who seems to live in the peripheral of the audience eye-line. Yes, he has had some amazing...
Once again, I’ve pilfered the INSTANT WATCH avails to suggest some of the more interesting under-the-radar releases now streaming. Original Programs, Underrated Programs and...
I love The New Girl. From the economically unrealistic loft apartment they inhabit to Schmidt’s clumsy and unrequited affection for CeCe; from Nick Miller’s...
Whether anyone intended it to happen, somehow TV has become better than just about any movie that comes out of Hollywood. But this could...
In my early years of World Wide Web addiction, I spent a lot of time looking up the various incarnations of Ultraman. Japan’s silver-skinned...
Last winter, Fringe ended after a five season run on Fox. Focusing on Olivia Dunham, an FBI agent teamed with Walter Bishop, a formerly...
Author, comedian and actor Jonathan Winters passed away from natural causes. Winters was a fixture on television and in film, and also had a...
I have a very easy home life as a nerd. My wife also is a nerd, and we like a lot of the same...
TV broadcasters are meeting this week in Las Vegas to discuss their growing concern over cord-cutters and the resulting decline in advertisement revenue. It’s...
Nothing screamed “event” more on television during the early Eighties than a mini-series. Today they’ve pretty much disappeared, but back then before Tivo or...
To cash in on the Hunger Games franchise, Marvel Comics announced the series Avengers Arena. Written by Dennis Hopeless and penciled primarily by Kev...
Alright, after that massive history lesson, we can press onward into the realm of fiction proper and see how the games have been adapted...