Richard Linklater may not be the best-known modern American movie director, but he may be the one that most other directors would secretly like to emulate...

2017

Aug

‘MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED: CHERNOBYL'S DEADLY SECRETS’ REVISITS THE DISASTER By David Hinckley

A new Science Channel exploration doesn’t give us any definitive answers on what caused a Soviet nuclear reactor to explode at Chernobyl in 1986...

2017

Aug

THE DIFFICULT RISE AND PAINFUL FALL OF WHITNEY HOUSTON IN ‘CAN I BE ME’ By David Hinckley

Don’t go looking for a hero in Can I Be Me, a new documentary on the too-short life of Whitney Houston...

2017

Aug

JAY THOMAS 1948-2017 By David Hinckley

Jay Thomas played the in-your-face wise guy so well, on morning radio and national television, it almost seemed like a misprint that he was born in Texas and not New York...

2017

Aug

AMAZON'S 'THE TICK' REPRISES ODDBALL COMIC BOOK ANTIHERO By David Hinckley

Earlier this month Amazon rolled out Comrade Detective, a comic “re-discovery” of a non-existent TV cop show, but it may have outdone itself with The Tick...

2017

Aug

‘GOOD KARMA HOSPITAL’ IS PREDICTABLE BUT CHARMING By David Hinckley

Acorn TV’s latest import Good Karma Hospital is reliably predictable and totally enjoyable...

2017

Aug

RONREACO LEE TALKS ABOUT SEASON 4 OF ‘SURVIVOR’S REMORSE’ By David Hinckley

When NBA veteran Stephen Jackson volunteered that he loves Survivor’s Remorse, RonReaco Lee figured the show must be getting something right...

2017

Aug

THE SCREENS AND THE SOUNDS TO WATCH THE ECLIPSE By David Hinckley

The most thorough way to view the Great American Eclipse on Monday would be to start on the coast of Oregon at 1:15 p.m. ET, then drive across country to the coast of South Carolina at approximately 1,600 miles per hour...

2017

Aug

THE FINAL YEAR OF ‘HALT AND CATCH FIRE’ AND THE BIRTH OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB By David Hinckley

The fourth and final season of AMC’s dawn-of-the-Internet tale Halt and Catch Fire starts with a solid interface between personal and high-tech drama...

2017

Aug

MARVEL’S ‘THE DEFENDERS’ ON NETFLIX ARE DIFFERENT DEFENDERS – BUT IT STILL WORKS By David Hinckley

Be patient with Marvel’s The Defenders. The long-awaited miniseries...finally arrives on Netflix on Friday, and it’s not one of those action-adventure shows that hits the ground in overdrive...

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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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