Friday TV: ‘Lupin’ Back for Second Season
It’s a night for second season starts for a number of popular streaming series, none so welcome as the French mystery thriller and sleeper hit “Lupin” (Netflix, streaming), with Omar…
Thursday TV: ‘In the Heights’ Premieres
The pre-“Hamilton” musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda about a New York bodega gets a big screen premiere today that ought to help revive the long-dormant movie theater business. But “In the…
Film Review: Victoria Justice in ‘Trust’
Though it has gorgeous shots of New York City and glimpses of Paris, with pretty people doing things in the worlds of fine art and broadcast journalism, there’s something of…
Wednesday TV: ‘Loki’ Here
There’s no Marvel character too minor to spin into a series, so here’s one about Thor’s mischievous brother who will endeavor to be more of a hero in his own…
Tuesday TV: Romero’s ‘Amusement Park’
Between the time he made “Night of the Living Dead” in 1968, and “Dawn of the Dead” in 1978, George A. Romero was approached by the Lutheran Society to make…
Monday TV: ‘The Bachelorette’ Minus Chris
Katie Thurston stood out from the last season of “The Bachelorette” by both seeming normal and too smart for such shananigans posing as romance. She didn’t “win” (spoiler alert: nobody…
Sunday: Unusual Kennedy Center Honors
Once a reliable moment of art and substance during holiday week, the event was canceled altogether last year, only to reappear now as a strangely cobbled together 43rd Kennedy Center…
Other Things I’ve Written Recently
Here are some other things I've written elsewhere lately: As I mentioned, there was this report for Entertainment Weekly on this year's Kennedy Center Honors. A look into the price…
Saturday TV: Meerkat Descendants Return
“Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty” (BBC America, 8 p.m.) has a pedigree with the original true nature from South Africa’s Kalahari Desert that ran from 2005-08. Its star is…
King Adapts His Own ‘Lisey’s Story’
Considering the number of books and stories Stephen King has allowed others to adapt over the decades, it’s remarkable that he’s adapting his own “Lisey’s Story” (Apple TV+, streaming) himself,…