DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2018
Mar
21
 
 
Fun fact: the planet Krypton apparently used to be part of the United Kingdom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
21
 
 
Clark Kent, Superman’s alter ego, has always been the straightest of arrows. He didn’t get that from his grandfather, suggests the new Syfy prequel series Krypton...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
21
 
 
SEASON FINALE: For some reason, it’s a big night for season finales and premieres. One of tonight’s finales is the season ender of The X-Files, with the episode called “My Struggle IV.” And a concern, with this series that began in the 1990s and was recently revived, is that few people are following or caring about this show’s ongoing mythology episodes — to be able to recall “Struggle I” and “II,” or even to know to whose struggle it&r
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
21
 
 
SEASON FINALE: To be clear, it’s the series finale for this edition of American Crime Story, but the umbrella series itself will continue.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
21
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new Syfy series provides a prequel to the Superman saga by setting a series on his home planet, a few generations before Superman, a.k.a. Kal-El, was born. Gotham has created a fine prequel series by taking the Batman story back to Bruce Wayne’s adolescence, but this allows the show’s writers to attack a basically blank canvas. For full reviews, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes and David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
21
 
 
I can’t wait to write that there seems to be nothing much for Samantha Bee to make fun of this week in terms of national headlines — but each week, I seem to be denied the opportunity. And with Russian “elections” and Stormy “allegations,” here we go again…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
20
 
 
The Battle Rounds continue tonight, showing off talent like one of last night’s deserved winners, Christiana Danielle (pictured). In the Audition Rounds, the talent also had to prove itself by singing well — but this round, the skill sets required of the four judges are different. The judges had to trust their ears, and sometimes their persuasion skills, during the blind auditions. Now it’s all about song arrangements — and, even more crucially, song selection.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
20
 
 
This 1967 Mike Nichols film masterpiece is shown as TCM salutes some of the cinema’s greatest endings. There’s no way of discussing those endings, or even presenting photos of them, without entering into the valley of Spoiler Alerts — but to quote from another famous movie ending being saluted in this particular TCM tribute, frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
20
 
 
This is the second episode of this new series about a high school musical drama program — and already, the old and new program directors, played by Rosie Perez and Josh Radnor, have formed an uneasy but workable alliance.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
20
 
 
In 1936, almost a decade after the advent of the talking pictures, Charlie Chaplin stubbornly, and successfully, presented a full-length silent film, the last to feature his iconic character the Little Tramp. Modern Times isn’t entirely silent — it uses synchronized sound while playing newfangled “recording devices” as part of the new mechanized society — and, in fact, is amazingly ahead of its time in anticipating such things as giant widescreen flat TV screens, in