Movie Review: ‘Murder, Anyone?’
Before he died in 2019 at 68, the television writer Gordon Bressack left behind seven unproduced film scripts. As a dutiful son, the director James Cullen Bressack has decided not…
Thursday TV: Following the Storm Chasers
The new “Earthstorm” (Netflix, streaming) follows that breed who drive into danger: storm chasers, as well as first responders, into tornados, hurricanes, volcanoes and floods. From Brazil comes the new…
Wednesday TV: Chastain in ‘Good Nurse’
Jessica Chastain stars as a nurse who risks her life trying to find whether a colleague is responsible for recent patient deaths. Eddie Redmayne is the suspect in the film…
Tuesday: Del Toro’s ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
As Alfred Hitchcock did on his anthology series of scary stories, Guillermo del Toro strolls on the set to introduce the well-made horror tales in the Halloween week series “Guillermo…
Capital Radio,10-24: Vampires, Rockabilly
Paid tribute to the rockabilly ace Robert Gordon, who died last week at 75, and who I saw perform in late 2019. Then took note of Jerry Lee Lewis finally…
Monday TV: TikTok’s Worrisome Strength
What’s on television is likely of no interest those in Gen Z, addicted to the fast-moving short videos on their favorite app. Shalini Kantayya’s documentary “TikTok Boom” looks at the…
Sunday TV: ‘House of the Dragon’ Finale
“House of the Dragon” (HBO, 9 p.m.) never reached the heights of its mother show, “Game of Thrones” but what it lacked in story it made up in blond wigs…
Saturday TV: The World of Black Hair
Tracee Ellis Ross and the academic Michaela Angela Davis host the new series “The Hair Tales” (OWN, 9 p.m.) in which they interview prominent Black women on their relationship with…
Friday TV: Amazon’s New ‘Raymond & Ray’
Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke play a couple of brothers who reunite at their father’s funeral in Rodrigo Garcia’s feature “Raymond & Ray” (Apple TV+, streaming), which also stars Sophie…
Thursday TV: ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Back
Whoever thought “Inside Amy Schumer” (Paramount+, streaming) would ever be back (especially after her successful series “Life & Beth”)? But here it is, her old Comedy Central sketch series, back…