Fantastic performances balance out Ryan Murphy and Larry Kramer’s
melodramatic approach to the history of the AIDS crisis in HBO’s
highly-anticipated “The Normal Heart,” premiering Sunday, May 25th,
2014.
A bi-weekly feature on the best movies new to Netflix, On Demand, and other streaming services.
NBC’s remake of “Rosemary’s Baby” and Showtime’s new weekly adventure
series “Penny Dreadful.” One is awful and it’s not the one with a
synonym for the word in its title.
Your guide to the best movies New to Netflix, On Demand, and other at-home services.
LIbby Hill examines how A&E’s Bates Motel has reimagined the history and impact of Norma Bates on her legendary son.
Jennifer Keishin Armstrong notes the parallels between the fictional world of Mad Men and the behind-the-scenes stories behind The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Jack Bauer returns in the limited FOX series “24: Live Another Day.”
Louis C.K. brings his hit FX show back to the network on Monday, May 5th. We’ve seen the first four. It’s still the best comedy on TV.
The latest interesting additions to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon, and On Demand platforms in the Streaming Consumer Guide.
BBC America’s hit sci-fi show is back for another round of addictive action.
Ali Arikan has figured out how AMC’s “Mad Men” will end.
The final season of “Mad Men” begins with the familiar routines of its damaged characters but they have more tragic resonance than ever.
Clever, fun, twisted, and wildly entertaining in the way that fans of not
just “Fargo” but all of the Coens’ work hoped it would be.
Introducing our Streaming Consume Guide, with picks from the work of On Demand, Netflix and more.
An epic essay on an epic comedy of the 1960s, now given deluxe treatment on Blu-ray and DVD by Criterion.
Memory lane with the Coen Brothers and John Goodman; the uncharacteristic reticence of Ronan Farrow; how our minds mislead us (let us count the ways); Ernst Lubitsch’s pre-code transgressions; Rebecca Miller on the importance of casting directors.
What’s happened to physical comedy? Have we’ve lost the desire to stimulate the part of the brain pratfalls talk to? Max Winter wants answers to these questions, and wonders if the great silent comedian Harold Lloyd can provide them.
Distribution company Olive Films
has released two obscurities by Jean-Luc Godard, 1976’s “Comment Ca Va” and 1987’s “Soigne ta Droite”
(known in the U.S. as “Keep Your Right Up”) and while these films may
not have the immediate impact of his better-known works, they both
reveal a filmmaker who has spent his career challenging himself, his viewers
and the very medium of cinema itself in ways that are oftentimes
fascinating and frustrating in equal measure.
Peter Bogdanovich’s movie musical “At Long Last Love” developed one of those reputations as a career-killing stinker, but in hindsight, it’s a pretty darn good mix of 1930s tunes with the slightly more realist sensibility of later musicals. And it’s a project with a crazy history. Now that it is out on Blu-Ray, it deserves another look.
HBO’s Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer lets us look closely at young women who have been the subject of so much conversation that their personhood has almost been obscured.
