Black Rabbit
When a New York City restaurant owner (Jude Law) finds his brother (Jason Bateman) back in his life (and business), it opens a path to a confrontation with a local…
Star Trek: Seeking Out New Life
Leonard Nimoy. Photo: NBC Sometimes it feels like there’s a before and after Star Trek when it comes to our cultural history. Few other, if any, TV shows have had…
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt (Edward Herrman) is elected U.S. President, but due to his polio, it is Eleanor (Jane Alexander) who becomes his eyes and ears during journeys across the…
Eleanor and Franklin
Joseph P. Lash had always been close to Eleanor Roosevelt, but his ambitious 1971 biography of the Roosevelts’ marriage, based on previously unpublished letters and papers, won him a Pulitzer…
Love Among the Ruins
In 1911, successful London barrister Sir Arthur Grenville-Jones (Laurence Olivier) takes on a case that will have him representing an actress (Katharine Hepburn) he once courted… but he’s still hopelessly…
Smoke
Detective Michelle Calderone (Jurnee Smollett) is assigned to help arson investigator Dave Gudsen (Taron Egerton) stop a series of fires in the community of Umberland. Inspired by a podcast that…
And Just Like That…
When the third Sex and the City movie was canceled, it was reworked into a limited series (that eventually became three seasons), where we met three of the ladies years…
Schitt$ Creek
Fish out of water was the primary idea for this comedy series that followed a fabulously wealthy family that lost everything – except Schitt’s Creek, a small town in the…
The Handmaid’s Tale
This adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale of a future where the United States has been replaced by a theocracy called Giliad, where women are seen as servants to men…
Baby Reindeer: Crossing Martha
Richard Gadd. Photo: Netflix I once put myself in a situation where I could easily have become a victim of sexual abuse. I walked out of that apartment thinking this…