Netflix trailer: I really wanted to write about “The Eastern Gate,” but at the end it disappointed me. I love a visceral series. Something dark and edgy as opposed to bright and in your face. Something that draws you into its world and doesn’t let go. And that’s how “The Eastern Gate” was in the […]

Netflix trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXSiyvI8cFU Now these people have problems. Not that they necessarily think they do. In a world where we can’t stop thinking about the government, it’s interesting to peek into the lives of people just trying to cope, just trying to get by, who want what we do but find it’s an incredibly heavy […]

People want to TALK about it! Now you know what it was like going to the movies in the late sixties and seventies. It was not high concept entertainment, it was food for thought, the movies were STIMULATING! No one says they saw “Adolescence” and shrugs. And maybe you haven’t seen it yet, but if […]

If I see one more story about “White Lotus”… The “Wall Street Journal” did a piece on the effect on Four Seasons Hotels. “Vanity Fair” wrote about Aimee Lou Wood’s teeth. And do you know how many people have e-mailed me about this HBO/MAX show? ZERO! But my inbox is blowing up about “Adolescence.” And […]