Film: Are We Living the Plot of ‘Barbie’? 

January 25, 2024

If you’ve seen the Barbie movie (which most of us have, given its $1 billion-plus earnings at the box office and streaming) you know the plot: Barbie World is where […]

Awards Shows, TV & Streaming Series Back with New Seasons for 2024

January 10, 2024

After a long autumn of reruns due to the writers’ and actors’ strikes, television is returning in full force this winter. Here’s a preview with some noteworthy comebacks.   Feud: Capote […]

‘Exorcist’ Director William Friedkin — 1935-2023

August 7, 2023

The man who terrified a generation (and many more after) with his hit horror film, “The Exorcist,” has passed away at his home in Bel Air, California, of heart failure […]

95th Academy Awards: ‘Everything Everywhere’ Wins Big, Music Highlights, Best-Worst Dressed

March 13, 2023

The way we watch movies has changed quite a bit in recent years. Movie theaters are closing and people are opting to screen films in their own homes (many of […]

Concert for the Ages: Kennedy Center’s Tribute to John Williams, 90

June 30, 2022

It is doubtful that anyone exiting the Kennedy Center Concert Hall June 23 with big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes would dispute this statement: It was […]

A Long Night at the Oscars

February 10, 2020

The 92nd Academy Awards show, on Feb. 9, spread itself like a big pillow on a small bed, but it had its moments.

A Very Different Hollywood?

March 5, 2018

All the pre-publicity, stories, predictions and gossip leading up to the March 4 event seemed full of not a little anxiety about how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement would affect the proceedings.