1 The cinematography is a 10. Billy Bob Thornton may be an anorexic weirdo, but he’s one of America’s best actors. Nina Arianda is about as good as Billy Bob, she deserves to be hired ad infinitum in Hollywood, she proves that being in the gossip columns has got nothing to do with talent. But […]

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/muhammad-ali/ Are you watching this? You’ve got to. Even though I wasn’t going to. I came home from hiking on Sunday night and Felice said she’d watched the first episode. I had no interest, I lived through it, I knew enough about Muhammad Ali. And there’d been so many other movies and documentaries, what else […]

The future will be fought on TikTok. Remember when those on the platform, completely off the radar screen, claimed all those tickets for Trump in Oklahoma last summer and didn’t show up? Not a single person in the mainstream media knew it was coming, none of them wrote about it, the intelligentsia WAS OUT TO […]

LINE OF DUTY It’s the U.K.’s most watched drama series of the century. Now when you hear “English show,” many think of PBS, period pieces, history, stuff for intellectuals with no edge. But not “Line of Duty.” But “Line of Duty” is not on PBS. Due to a rights issue, “Line of Duty” can be […]