The Unthinkable, Impossible Underdog That Was ‘Game of Thrones’
Believe it or not, the biggest show on television once had almost all odds against it. Read More...
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‘Insecure’ is Nothing but Bold in its Approach to Television
With Season 2 premiering soon, we look at the ways the HBO series uses comedy to break barriers. Read More...
YouTuber Lilly Singh Lands Role in ‘Fahrenheit 451’
HBO’s modern take on Ray Bradbury's literary classic bulks up its cast with a millennial icon. Read More...
All Alone is All We Are: ‘Six Feet Under’ and Grief on Television
The HBO series never sugar coated truths about loss and death. Read More...
‘My Art’ and Yours
The many strange cinematic portraits of the art life. Read More...
The Banality of Certain Evils
A look at how Barry Levinson built Bernie Madoff's world. Read More...
New ‘Game of Thrones’ Pictures Remind Us of All The Reasons Why We Miss Westeros
HBO invites you to remember the gaping hole in your life.That classic saying “a picture’s worth a thousand words” often seems hyperbolic. However, a thousand wo Read More...
Revisiting ‘Lemonade’: The Cinematic Opus of Beyoncé One Year Later
After the dust has settled, the album still stands tall.Just a few days after Prince left us, Beyoncé dropped her masterpiece upon the world. With Lemonade, she Read More...
Let’s Keep Talking About Big Little Lies
And how it’s set a new benchmark for Prestige TV.I’m finding that writing about Big Little Lies is extraordinarily difficult, because an itemization of its meri Read More...
Fred Ward Headlines a Magical Noir With a Comical Edge
Missed Connections‘Cast a Deadly Spell’ Is a Magical Noir With a Comical EdgeEvil creatures and worse humans threaten the world of late ’40s Los Angeles.Welcome Read More...