Film Review: ‘Not to Forget’ Forgettable
Alzheimer’s is a deadly disease and a scourge, affecting more than 6 million Americans alone. It’s also challenging to depict in film, though there have been notable performances from Julia…
Monday TV: Dolly Hosts Streaming ACMs
Weird enough that the Academy of Country Music Awards (Amazon Prime, streaming) are always held in Las Vegas; weirder still is that it’s now only available on a streaming service.…
Sunday TV: The Wild Era of the ’80s Lakers
The colorful world of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers and its creation is mirrored by a freewheeling new series “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty” (HBO, 9 p.m.). Adam…
Saturday TV: ‘The Green Knight,’ ‘F9’ Debut
David Lowery’s “The Green Knight” (Showtime, 9 p.m.), last year’s medieval fantasy based on the 14th century poem “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” starring Dev Patel as King Arthur’s…
Friday TV: Toni Collette in Peril on Netflix
Toni Collette plays a mother who is advising her rudderless 30-year-old daughter (Bella Heathcote) one minute and then, after a violent crime puts her in the news, advising her to…
Thursday TV: The Saga of Theranos
Amanda Seyfried tries on the odd character of Elizabeth Holmes in the eight-episode limited series “The Dropout” (Hulu, streaming), based on the podcast of the same name. That it’s created…
Wednesday TV: A Wrong Turn in Greenland
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Joe Cole star in “Against the Ice” (Netflix, streaming), a drama about an ill-fated Danish expedition to the Arctic to disprove the U.S. claim on Greenland. The…
Tuesday TV: State of the Union, and Oscar
President Joe Biden delivers his first official State of the Union (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, PBS, CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNBC, 9 p.m.) to a joint session of Congress at an…
Capital Radio, 2-28-22: Mardi Gras and War
It seemed at first a dichotomy impossible to resolve: The possibility of celebration amid the darkness of world events. But the music of Mardi Gras could also serve as respite…
Monday TV: ‘Better Things’ Final Season
Pamela Adlon adds an extra dash of humanity to the fifth and final season of “Better Things” (FX, 10 p.m.) as she tries to maintain amid the swirl of her…