If you’re feeling holiday overload and were just thinking you could use an hour of pure silly fun about astrophysics, PBS grants your wish with Eric Idle’s The Entire Universe...

2017

Dec

THE TRUE STORY OF AN ACT OF RELIGIOUS REBELLION: HBO’S ‘GUNPOWDER’ By David Hinckley

If you want to be depressed in a million ways, to flip the sentiment of a popular holiday song, watch Gunpowder, HBO’s new miniseries on one of history’s biggest foiled insurrection plots...

2017

Dec

'L' ACCIDENT' STREAMING ON ACORN By David Hinckley

The French mystery L'Accident may remind some viewers of Broadchurch, because there are stretches when the villain seems to be the picturesque coastal village where the story is set...

2017

Dec

‘LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX’ TAKES AN ADORING LOOK AT LOVE By David Hinckley

Don’t blink or you could miss the whole fourth season of PBS’s Last Tango in Halifax...

2017

Dec

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME IS HIMSELF AND ‘JEAN-CLAUDE VAN JOHNSON’ ON AMAZON PRIME By David Hinckley

I admit it: Back in the day, I was a sucker for Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. I make no excuses. I just was...

2017

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‘THE LIBRARIANS’ RETURNS, FOR SEASON 4, WITH JOHN NOBLE By David Hinckley

TNT’s The Librarians has decided to get weirder and have even more fun...

2017

Dec

A SISTER ATTEMPTS TO FIND ANSWERS IN THE DOCUMENTARY ‘32 PILLS: MY SISTER’S SUICIDE’ By David Hinckley

32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide takes an unusually intense personal look at the impact of self-destruction on those left behind...

2017

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‘PSYCH: THE MOVIE’ CONTINUES THE STORY THREE YEARS ON By David Hinckley

You don’t need extrasensory powers to divine what USA’s cult fave Psych will deliver in its resurrection...

2017

Dec

‘LIAR’ DROPS ON SUNDANCE NOW By David Hinckley

Fair warning: If you watch the first episode of Sundance Now’s intense new psychological crime drama, Liar, you may never go on a date again...

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David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.

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