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Between the launch of Stranger Things 3 on Netflix tomorrow and Donald Trump's military hardware-heavy celebration, Fourth of July 2019 is going to feel a lot like a throwback to the closing years of the Cold War. However, unlike those now seemingly almost balmy days of the Reagan Era, it's the U.S. President going…

Joe Biden wasn't mentioned at all by Elizabeth Warren and the nine Democratic dwarfs Wednesday night at the first debate. But today the former Vice President and clear 2020 front-runner was center stage in Miami and the man to beat. Even with Biden, a breakout by Senator Kamala Harris, Senator Bernie Sanders, the…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Showtime’s The Loudest Voice & HBO’s Years And Years. The former premieres on June 30 & the latter debuts tonight. The initial round of voting for the 2019 Emmys ends today, but the opening salvos of the 2020 Emmys start tonight with the debut of Years and Years on HBO…

There were no big surprises or major upsets tonight at the 73rd annual Tony Awards, as Hadestown, The Ferryman, Bryan Cranston and Elaine May took the trophies they were meant to take, overt politicizing was kept to a few well-placed swipes, and James Corden oversaw it all like the Broadway-besotted pro we know him to…

When Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny In The Clair de Lune premiered Off Broadway in 1987, critics saw a sidelong glance at the AIDS crisis and the toll it took on intimacy. Nothing in the text has been changed for the affecting new production opening tonight on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre starring a…

Movie review engine Rotten Tomatoes is adding a level of verification to demonstrate that audience reviews come from actual ticket buyers. Starting with movies released today, users can opt in to get their rating and review marked "verified" as long as they bought their movie ticket on Fandango, the NBCUniversal-owned…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's  Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's All in the Family and The Jeffersons on ABC. So, don’t be a meathead and read more if you don’t want to know what happened. "It's live," Jamie Foxx told a suddenly wide awake America tonight after flubbing a…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's Game of Thrones series finale. After 73 episodes, two slain dragons, three Outstanding Drama Series Emmys, one Peabody, the demise of the Night King and most of King’s Landing, and the destruction of more monarchies than the real-life armistice of World War I, Ga…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Veep series finale. Plus this article contains language inappropriate for almost anyone, but that’s Veep, isn’t it?  Game of Thrones doesn't end until next week, but tonight's series finale of Veep showed a very different way to snare another type of Iron…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's penultimate episode of Game of Thrones' eighth and final season. If you thought the swords on Game of Thrones were being fundamentally sheathed after the long and dark battle of Winterfell a few weeks ago, tonight's expanded second-to-last “The Bells” episode…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's fourth episode of Game of Thrones' eighth & final season. The Night King is dead on Game of Thrones, but long live the true ruthless ruler of the Seven Kingdoms … whoever that may turn out to be. Swiveling off last week's long, dark and seemingly defining battle…

Morrissey has never really been as gloomy as his reputation would suggest – no one is as gloomy as his reputation would suggest – but the former Smiths frontman seemed in especially good spirits – and powerfully strong voice – for last night’s first show of a seven-night Broadway residency.  Transforming the lush…