Movies

Legendary’s MonsterVerse live-action series for Apple TV, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters,” achieved a franchise first: provide compelling human characters. In the first season, creators Chris Black and Matt Fraction managed to tell a captivating story with a monstrous, globe-trotting...

Sony wants everyone to love “God of War.” On the one hand, they are hopeful that the in-production Amazon Prime Video series will make the same waves as both that company’s “Fallout” and HBO’s “The Last of Us” did....

Robert Carlock, the showrunner for “30 Rock” and creator of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” is back on network TV with a show that could be called “Remember How Funny Tracy Morgan Can Be?” A show built around Morgan’s goofy, likable...

It is perhaps not the time for a show about white-guy cops who break the rules to keep the US safe. And yet, that’s what CBS is giving us with “CIA,” a boilerplate spy thriller that doesn’t so much...

An Academy Award in Best Casting will be the newest prize at the Oscars in March. An NPR panel examines what an achievement in casting might mean. Source link

Last year’s “Paradise” had the benefit of carrying one of television’s more baffling, smooth-brained (complimentary) concepts: A murder mystery about a dead president (James Marsden) and the Secret Service agent (Sterling K. Brown) committing to solving his murder… oh,...

Netflix has a complex history with adult animation. Some of their most critically acclaimed original comedies are animated: “BoJack Horseman,” “Big Mouth,” last year’s excellent “Long Story Short.” And yet there’s the other side of the coin with duds...

People talk a lot about “Wednesday,” “Stranger Things,” even “Squid Game,” but one of the most successful shows in the history of the most successful streaming company has been Shawn Ryan’s propulsively entertaining “The Night Agent,” the most-watched show...

Yes, we are in an era of over-nostalgia, one in which every other canceled IP gets brought back in some form. The number of network TV sitcoms that have been resurrected from the dead, including “Murphy Brown,” “Will &...