If the late rapper Biggie Smalls returned for long enough to make a movie about his life, it would look exactly like A&E’s new Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G....

2017

Sep

ACORN REPRISES 'THE GOVERNOR' FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND By David Hinckley

Fans of Janet McTeer, which should mean everyone, can get a lovely serving of her early work when Acorn TV revives her 1995-95 series The Governor just in time for Labor Day...

2017

Sep

SHELLEY BERMAN 1925 – 2017 By David Hinckley

Shelley Berman may have been the first person whose career was crippled by reality television. Okay, the second, if you count Sen. Joseph McCarthy. But McCarthy deserved it...

2017

Sep

'NEIL GAIMAN’S LIKELY STORIES' TAKES A DIFFERENT SLANT ON FRIGHT By David Hinckley

AMC’s boutique horror channel Shudder takes a different tack this week with Neil Gaiman, one of the genre’s modern masters...

2017

Sep

‘RICHARD LINKLATER – DREAM IS DESTINY’ SHOWS A BIG TALENT MAKING SMALL FILMS By David Hinckley

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...

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