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SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of Beyoncé’s Black Is King film from Disney+ Mere hours after the near presidential funeral for Rep. John Lewis and days after the debut of an in-depth podcast series from Michelle Obama, Beyoncé leap into the arena of Black excellence again tonight with Black Is…

As reporters rushed to post many of the juicy anecdotes and scorching analysis from Mary Trump’s new book this past week, they might have missed that the memoir also is a media critique. In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, set to be published by Simon & Schuster on…

I’d never laid eyes on Pete Davidson before, nor have I ever set foot on Staten Island in all the time I've spent in New York City; nobody has ever remotely recommended it, although I must say that one scene in The King of Staten Island shot at the local minor league baseball park affords so spectacular a view of…

President Barack Obama never mentioned Donald Trump in his virtual Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 commencement speech tonight, but it was clear to everyone in coronavirus lockdown and elsewhere that he was throwing shade and throwing down the gauntlet to his successor – for the second…

It's the weekend before the long Memorial Day holiday and while coronavirus restrictions are lifting all over California and the rest of the nation, there is some serious TV dropping. Which of course poses the question: What is the show you have to watch this week? There are some very Russian royal moves occurring…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s virtually made All Rise season finale. The most shocking thing about tonight's remotely produced All Rise is how quickly the artifice of the Season 1 finale of the Simone Missick-led legal drama becomes the backdrop to a very well-crafted tale of our coronavirus…

If Michelle Obama wasn’t so adamant that she isn’t running for public office, the perfectly timed new Netflix documentary Becoming would sure seem like a campaign launch. Dropping on May 6 on the streamer, the recently announced very authorized biopic of sorts could also be Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s worst nightmare…

What will theater look like after the pandemic? How will stage artists address the societal upheavals wreaked by COVID-19? Everyone’s asking, no one knows, but Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Nelson and New York’s Public Theater offered up a much-needed and beautifully executed bit of hope last night with the…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Homeland series finale.  Hurling a Molotov cocktail in its fiery closing minutes, Homeland came to the end of its eight-season run Sunday night and Showtime's multiple Emmy-winning spy thriller certainly ended with an unexpected bang. With the reappearance of…

"We were as much Monty Python as we were Black Flag," proclaim the remaining members of one of the greatest hip hop bands ever in Beastie Boys Story, which debuts Friday on Apple TV+ Thoroughly entertaining and heartbreaking when it addresses the 2012 death from cancer of bandmate Adam Yauch, the live documentary of…

The most unusual draft in NFL history avoided technical glitches in its early stages, as the streaming and broadcast teams of ESPN and ABC-TV managed to seamlessly integrate the numerous remote locations. These ranged from the top picks’ living rooms, to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s basement, to collages of various…

With greetings in a multitude of languages, a suited and booted Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon kicked off the multi-network One World: Together at Home concert from their respective homes on different sides of the country. But, even with a joint "overwhelming gratitude" appearance by former First…