As New York Film Festival selection committee chairman Richard Peña pointed out this past Saturday, October 6th at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade theater, "The Untold History of the United States" might make a good title for a survey of Oliver Stone’s films. Unfortun...
Read More »Sure, Sunday is incredibly overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Homeland," "Boardwalk Empire," "Copper," "The Good Wife," "Treme" and "Dexter," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlight...
Read More »Soooo... as noted in a post on Friday, it was a black cinema weekend on the Lifetime channel here in the USA, with 2 original films making their world premieres, headlining the network's Saturday and Sunday primetime schedule: the ripped from the headlines drama Abducted: The Carl...
Read More »Like you, I watched the first two episodes of Season Two of 'Scandal'. The production values are higher. The style of the show is handled much better. Olivia Pope, at least, in the first episode, felt stronger. She was making decisions and leading the charge.
Read More »The leaves are changing colors, school's back in session, the weather's cooler -- these can only mean one thing. Yes, finally, it's time for "The Simpsons" to unveil a new "Treehouse of Horror" episode. While Fox's venerable animated series is currently in its 24t...
Read More »The first official week of the 2012-13 television season and has come and gone, and Indiewire is offering up some of the highlights from the just-in ratings, where -- gasp -- NBC was the big winner. More and that as well as other winners and losers from premiere week:
Read More »Yesterday's news that Oprah Winfrey's OWN Network had entered into a partnership with Tyler Perry to bring scripted series to the network, was met with a lot of disconcerted voices around the web. To be sure, there was some support. But it seemed the loudest voices were the dissenters.
Read More »October is big month for television -- the broadcast networks continue to roll our their new fall shows and familiar returning ones while cable channels like HBO and Showtime are in full swing with series like "Boardwalk Empire," "Treme," "Dexter" and "Homeland.&qu...
Read More »Sure, Sunday is incredibly overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Homeland," "Boardwalk Empire," "Hell on Wheels," "Copper," "Treme" and "Dexter," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highligh...
Read More »Showtime's serial killer drama "Dexter" has a deliciously dark premise that has also become a trap over its six year run (the seventh season starts this Sunday, September 30th at 9pm). Dexter (Michael C. Hall) may only murder bad guys, but he enjoys the killing -- the process of stalki...
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