DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2016
Mar
29
 
 
For those viewers, readers and moviegoers who don’t have to be first-on-their-block to know that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father (sorry!), or that taking a bite out of the apple in the Garden of Eden was a really bad idea...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
21
 
 
Even legends die eventually. Or, as hapless waiter Manuel of Fawlty Towers would have said, “hee-vent-whally.” This past week, the U.K. newspaper The Guardian reported that the rustic, seaside hotel that inspired John Cleese’s classic comedy Fawlty Towers, has been demolished...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
13
 
 
The singing-competition shows are all about moments — and memories —  and American Idol and The Voice have had their share in the last couple of weeks, in what is turning out to be memorable seasons for both shows...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
7
 
 
Super Tuesday wasn’t so super for old-school traditionalists. Super Saturday was no better. This is now a Donald Trump world. You’re just living in it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
29
 
 
Ghostly shadows flicker across the screen. Colors flow and merge while, in another, later time, a small girl wakes in hospital from a coma. Malala Yousafzai, now a teenager, remembers having terrible dreams, she tells us in a slow, halting voiceover...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
22
 
 
I have seen the future, and it looks a lot like the TV-network equivalent of a murder-suicide pact. It was Sunday night, the most heavily viewed night of the TV week, and there was too much for the DVR to keep up with...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
14
 
 
Who said you can’t get smarter by watching TV? Or if not smarter exactly, certainly more knowledgeable...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
8
 
 
Sports betting has become big business. But where does online betting — disavowed by virtually all the professional sports leagues — end and fantasy-sports betting begin?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Feb
4
 
 
After the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards and numerous other citations, it’s no secret that Mr. Robot is the new buzzword in TV’s cultural echo chamber...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jan
28
 
 
It was a documentary I had every reason to look forward to... Himalayan Megaquake had some of the most compelling subject matter you will see in any documentary film this year. It was also unwatchable...