Television
Sometimes it feels like the only stories Hollywood is interested in telling anymore are the ones we already know.
by Inkoo Kang, The Washington Post May 12, 2022On the original version of "Gossip Girl," Penn Badgley's character Dan Humphrey was nicknamed Lonely Boy, an introverted, teenage outsider who longed for a fas…
by Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press May 10, 2022Country superstar Dolly Parton will visit the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in Little Rock today to celebrate her Imagination Library's extending of its Arkansas…
by Eric E. Harrison May 5, 2022It took eight long years for Sarah Solemani to get a murky part of Britain's post-World War II history from the pages of a book to our TV screens.
by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press May 5, 2022In the years before her death in 1976, just four years after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell was more famous than Henry Kissinger. The spouses of attor…
by Inkoo Kang, The Washington Post May 3, 2022In "The Survivor," filmmaker Barry Levinson reaches back 80 years to tell the grueling story of a boxer who put the lives of fellow concentration camp prisoner…
by Lynn Elber, The Associated Press May 3, 2022The first two episodes of HBO's new police drama "We Own This City" — which debuted Monday — introduce a dead man riddled with bullets in an alley and a drug l…
by Inkoo Kang, The Washington Post April 28, 2022If you're from Chicago, or have lived here for any significant length of time, the three-part Netflix documentary "Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne …
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune (TNS) April 26, 2022We watched Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket" (1959) the other night.
by Philip Martin April 24, 2022"The First Lady" presents three influential women, three acclaimed actors playing them, and a century of history encompassing wars, presidential scandal and Am…
by Lynn Elber, The Associated Press April 21, 2022Josh Brolin grew up on California's central coast knowing men like Royal Abbott, the laconic and emotionally distant rancher he plays in "Outer Range." The act…
by Lynn Elber, The Associated Press April 19, 2022Half the fun of watching “Property Brothers” — the HGTV reality series where identical twins Drew and Jonathan Scott convince homebuyers to buy an old fixer an…
by Marni Jameson April 16, 2022Headlines from all corners of the internet shouted the news recently: Jerrod Carmichael came out as gay in his latest comedy special, "Rothaniel." But that ann…
by Inkoo Kang, The Washington Post April 14, 2022Jon Batiste wears so many hats he may need a closet for them all — recording artist, bandleader, musical director, film composer, museum creative director and …
by Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press April 12, 2022Here are the buzziest new TV shows of the season to watch, try or avoid — based solely on trailers and descriptions (no spoilers here).
by Kate Feldman, New York Daily News (TNS) April 12, 2022