Even in a year as monstrous as this, there were still things worth celebrating.
Entertainment Columns
“Christmas: A First Look Preview Special,” offering glimpses at the channel’s upcoming slate of original holiday movies, airs at 10 p.m. Saturday.
Get ready for Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes, Benedict Cumberbatch as Satan and George Clooney in “Catch 22.”
The hits and misses of his four-decade Hollywood career form the backbone of Rob Lowe’s one-man show.
The 18th annual Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival is a celebration of “chai.” As in the Hebrew word for “life,” not the type of tea.
After three seasons and a handful of episodes of the upcoming fourth, it’s time to accept the fact that Dwayne Johnson’s “Ballers” (10 p.m. Sunday, HBO) will never be more than a dopey, mildly distracting bit of escapism.
In the span of five short years, I’ve gone from marveling at Melissa McCarthy’s comedic sensibilities to walking into her movies with the sort of dread usually reserved for IRS audits and colonoscopies.
The crime drama, starring Jack Cutmore-Scott, debuts Sunday.
It’s becoming more and more difficult to figure out whether the producers of “Homeland” have some sort of oracle on their writing staff or are simply the beneficiaries of some remarkable coincidences.
As DEA agent Hank Schrader, Dean Norris had one of the least flashy roles on “Breaking Bad.” He’s more than making up for that on “Claws.”
For the most part, “Kong: Skull Island” is just an excuse — albeit a more entertaining one than it should be — to launch a series of big-budget monster battles. But thanks to Reilly’s Hank Marlow, and things take a hilariously bonkers turn.
In the days before Wikipedia, many a student assigned to read “Moby-Dick” did so via CliffsNotes, those truncated little study guides that summarize a novel’s plot and themes at the expense of a real understanding of the text.
It’s a little-known fact of film criticism: Saturday morning screenings are almost universally awful.
To the surprise of almost no one, M. Night Shyamalan has made 80, maybe 85 percent of an entertaining movie.
The native Las Vegan is never mentioned in the HBO tennis mockumentary “7 Days in Hell.” But the spiky blond mullet and denim shorts sported by Aaron Williams, Andy Samberg’s “bad boy of tennis” character, are unmistakable.
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