In the mood for a sweet, off-beat murder mystery? 'Elsbeth' is on the case
Carrie Preston won an Emmy Award in 2013, as outstanding guest actress, for her portrayal of a seemi...
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Sex, violence, 'Game of Thrones'-style power grabs — the new 'Shōgun' has it all
The original Shōgun, on NBC, aired in 1980, when miniseries were the hottest things on television. A...
Disaster follows an astronaut back to Earth in the thriller 'Constellation'
Constellation, the new drama series streaming on Apple TV+, starts in outer space, with an astronaut...
Don't miss the latest 'Feud' – between Truman Capote and NYC's society ladies
In 2017, the FX network presented the first edition of Ryan Murphy's Feud, an anthology series drama...
Spielberg and Hanks take to the World War II skies in 'Masters of the Air'
In the 1990s, Steven Spielberg directed two unforgettably powerful films about World War II: Schindl...
'Night Country' is the best 'True Detective' season since the original
It's been so long since the previous edition of HBO's True Detective — and so much longer since its ...
'Monk' returns for one 'Last Case' and it's a heaping serving of TV comfort food
The USA Network detective series Monk, like its title character, always stood out as being a little ...
'All the Light We Cannot See' is heartening and hopeful wartime tale
At a time when so much of what we see on television is devoted to ongoing coverage of war, you may n...
If you love film, you should be worried about what's going on at Turner Classic Movies
When the dismissal was announced recently of most of the people who have guided Turner Classic Movie...
5 new 'Black Mirror' episodes have dropped — and there's not a dud in the bunch
The Netflix anthology series Black Mirror hasn't presented any new episodes since 2019. But now it's...
Little Richard Documentary celebrates the talent — and mystery — of a legend
In 1956, Elvis Presley exploded onto the music scene, changing music history. One of the songs on Pr...
Hats off to an illuminating new documentary about Mary Tyler Moore
A new two-hour HBO documentary revisits the life and career of Mary Tyler Moore, an actor most famou...
Pete Davidson is an endearing work in progress in 'Bupkis'
The former SNL cast member stars as a somewhat autobiographical, sometimes exaggerated version of hi...
'White House Plumbers' puts a laugh-out-loud spin on the Watergate break-in
The new five-part HBO series White House Plumbers, about the men behind the Watergate break-in, begi...
Sinister twin sisters wield all the power in the latest 'Dead Ringers' adaptation
David Cronenberg's 1988 movie Dead Ringers, like the book on which it was based, was all about birth...
Clunky title aside, 'Cunk on Earth' is a mockumentary with cult classic potential
Diane Morgan stars in the new five-part Netflix mockumentary series Cunk on Earth, but viewers in th...