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Last week’s Oscars show played out as it normally does: speeches and montages of the Hollywood film industry insisting on its self-importance — its...
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Last week’s Oscars show played out as it normally does: speeches and montages of the Hollywood film industry insisting on its self-importance — its...
House of Cards has taken a lot of flack this season, but for the wrong reasons. Yes, the show is extremely pulpy, over the...
I admit that I’m an unlikely fan of Downton Abbey. Period costume dramas involving storylines about unrequited love are not usually my thing. But...
I recently got into an argument with a friend about if The Wolf of Wall Street glamorized the life and times of Jordan Belfort....
Antiheroes are the protagonists de jour in Hollywood. This awards season alone two of the top contenders are about con artists: American Hustle and...
Looking back on 2013, I increasingly doubt that the action movies I grew up watching — Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic...
Earlier this summer Google joined the very, very crowded marketplace of internet video streaming hardware devices with Chromecast. For the average users it’s not...
The new trend in Hollywood screenwriting is intricate plots that depend on characters that possess uncanny foresight. Plot after plot in movies and TV...
Defenders of Carrie Underwood’s wooden acting on NBC’s live broadcast of The Sound of Music pretty much all make this argument: Yes, her acting...
Earlier this month Kerry Washington’s appearance on Saturday Night Live kicked off yet another brouhaha about TV being too white — a controversy as...
Review by Seth Levi Roman Polanski is going to be remembered for three things: Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, and rape. Despite being called “a film...
It’s October — that time of year that new shows debut, and three episodes later they’re canceled. This has been going on since the...
I’ve now had a week to digest the Breaking Bad finale — which I was initially cool to and have grown cooler — but...
Every few years video quality seems to take a huge leap forward. Most of us have only had HDTVs for 4 or 5 years,...
After having gone two years without cable TV, it seems unlikely that I’ll ever pay for it again. Between the channels I get over...
Let me start this post with a preface: I’m not trying to jump on The Newsroom bashing bandwagon. I watch the show because I...
Seemingly every aspect of Breaking Bad has been praised: the acting, the writing, the direction, the character development, etc. But all great TV shows...
The pop culture TV news story of 2013 is shaping up to be Netflix’s original content, that in less than a year’s time have...
Last week an attempted sale of Hulu was aborted. The broadcast networks don’t make money from it, but they are not quite ready to...
There’s no doubt that James Gandolfini’s death has resonated with people more than most celebrity deaths. And it’s particular impressive considering that he’s pretty...
For me, the most surprising aspect about the revelations of the NSA’s spying programs are: 1) That the NSA is largely absent in movies...
In a recent Fresh Air interview with Steven Soderbergh, Terry Gross made an insightful observation that was easy to miss: Ironically, more people will...
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...
Mad Men The last two seasons of “Mad Men” were by far the best of the series; so far the current season — also...