Now Playing In Your Living Room: “Palm Springs” Takes Romantic Comedy To a New Place, Over and Over Again
JULY 16, 2020 Many of you may know that Palm Springs, CA is where I’ve called home since 2018. It’s a place that I truly love, so when news…
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Now Playing In Your Living Room: “Hamilton” Comes to Disney+, and the Result is Theatrical (and Film) Magic
JULY 6, 2020 Forget July 4th weekend. For much of the United States, these past three days has been “Hamilton” weekend, as a filmed performance of the ground-breaking musical…
Now Playing in Your Living Room: Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke Never Quite Know What’s a Lie in “The Truth”
JULY 3, 2020 At first glance, “The Truth” might seem to be an outlier in director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s filmography. After all, this film marks the first time that the…
Emmy Spotlight: Outstanding Limited Series
JUNE 2, 2020 The deadline for eligibility for this year’s Emmy Awards has been extended into early June, but one category that extension won’t affect is the already red-hot race…
Now Playing in Your Living Room — The Late Brian Dennehy Delivers One of His Very Best Screen Performances in “Driveways”
MAY 29, 2020 Andrew Ahn’s latest film, “Driveways,” is a quiet film that speaks volumes. Though focusing on only three major characters and running a trim 83 minutes, “Driveways”…
Now Playing in Your Living Room: If “Military Wives” Was Dinner, It Would Be a Comforting Meat Loaf
MAY 26, 2020 “Military Wives,” directed by Oscar nominee Peter Cattaneo (“The Full Monty”), had its world premiere in September 2019 at the Toronto Film Festival and was the…
Now Playing in Your Living Room: “The Trip to Greece” Concludes the Series With Great Food, Great Scenery and Even Better Bickering
MAY 21, 2020 The “Trip” series of films originated in 2010 as a British sitcom airing on BBC Two with a premise that actor Steve Coogan is asked by…
Now Playing in Your Living Room : “Becoming” Offers Us a Glimpse of the Michelle Obama That We All Know Is There
MAY 18, 2020 I was reading the New York Times online the other day and noticed that this coming week, Michelle Obama’s memoir “Becoming” has climbed to #2 on…
Emmy spotlight: Is there enough strength from Jeremy Strong to overtake ‘Succession’ dad Brian Cox?
MAY 1, 2020 The word-of-mouth success of “Succession” has made the HBO series one of the most buzzed-about shows over the past year. Besides a number of awards for…
Cate Blanchett Headlines Her First American TV Series in “Mrs. America,” and the Result is Triumphant
APRIL 27, 2020 Cate Blanchett is unquestionably one of our greatest artists on stage or screen. A Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, Blanchett has been nominated…
