On Tuesday, I began my list of my Top 10 Movies Of The Year by revealing numbers 10 up to 6. Now it is time for the Top 5. As I wrote then, doing this kind of list is not my favorite thing. It’s very arbitrary and I find it really difficult to separate these distinct film-going experiences. To do the Top 10 I use a…

With one more day left in the year, it is time, as the Beatles used to say, for the toppermost of the poppermost with for my Top 5 new shows of 2015. Like the wide-ranging choices of December 28’s Part 1 of the Top 10 new shows of 2015, today's video menagerie above has something from the Big 4 networks, something…

All this week we are looking at the best of the year, so here is Part 1 of my list of the Top 10 Movies Of 2015, listing those films from No. 10 to No. 6. These kinds of lists are always incredibly difficult to put together as I have a lot of favorites for many different reasons. Actually, in compiling my Ten Best…

FX's chief John Landgraf captured intentional attention this year when he proclaimed there is simply too much TV out there. Of course, with about 409 scripted shows airing in 2015 according to a recent FX study, the era of Peak TV does seem overwhelming at times. However, while I get Landgraf's oversaturation point, I…

For better or worse, 2015 has been the year of Hamilton … and everything else (so what’s not to like about that?).  Yet it’s been a remarkable time — for immigrant stories freshly minted and revisited on Broadway, for adventurous new plays, thoughtful revivals and, in at least one case, a rediscovered gem (In White Ame…