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2021

Mar

'COLD COURAGE' IS A COMPLEX THRILLER WORTH THE WATCH By David Hinckley

The new miniseries Cold Courage might, in a way, resemble a Scandinavian version of The Equalizer. But I could be wrong about that...

2021

Mar

A NEW ALIEN MYSTERY LANDS ON NBC WITH 'DEBRIS' By David Hinckley

The NBC family has a terrific new supernatural-rooted show, Resident Alien, on its Syfy network. It doesn't do quite as well with Debris...

2021

Feb

TARGETED BY THE GOVERNMENT: 'THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY' By David Hinckley

The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a new film available Friday on Hulu, has all the subtlety of a lynching...

2021

Feb

YOU MIGHT RECOGNIZE CHARACTERS IN 'GINNY & GEORGIA,' BUT THE ROADS THEY FOLLOW TAKE NEW TURNS By David Hinckley

Every TV viewer knows Ginny Miller...

2021

Feb

'SUPERMAN AND LOIS' HELP SAVE THE WORLD AND FACE THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE: TEENAGERS By David Hinckley

It's good to know that moving from the cold, impersonal big city back to a small town, that reliable repository of wholesome genuine, neighborly sincerity and family values, doesn't only happen in Hallmark movies...

2021

Feb

THE FIRST NATIONALLY-BROADCAST BLACK VARIETY SHOW, 'MR. SOUL!' IS CELEBRATED ON PBS By David Hinckley

The forgotten archives of television aren't all from the earliest days, as we are reminded, in a new PBS documentary called Mr. Soul!...

2021

Feb

'BEARTOWN,' POWERFUL, SOMBER DRAMA FROM SWEDEN IS DEEPER THAN IT MIGHT APPEAR By David Hinckley

I've got to admit I didn't have high expectations for an imported miniseries focusing on the dramas surrounding a junior hockey team from an extremely cold town in far northern Sweden...

2021

Feb

ALLEGATIONS AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF DYLAN: 'ALLEN V. FARROW' By David Hinckley

Not unlike a number of other men in this world, Woody Allen's attitude toward kids changed when he got his first chance to actually hang around with them...

2021

Feb

UNVEIL THE BLEAK REVELATIONS ON 'TELL ME YOUR SECRETS' SLOWLY AND WITH CAUTION By David Hinckley

A complex mystery exploring the shadowy sides of human nature gives us a dark, intense drama in Amazon Prime's Tell Me Your Secrets...

2021

Feb

A HISTORY OF THE INFLUENCE AND IMPORTANCE OF 'THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG' By David Hinckley

The Black church, like the Black community, isn't the monolithic entity to which it is sometimes reduced in sociological shorthand. But like the Black community, it has a deceptive strength, and part of that strength stems from its diversity...

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