Blame Jethro Tull. In 1989 Ian Anderson’s successful yet hated band of rotating musicians won the “Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards and all hell broke loose. That Grammy was supposed to go to Metallica, for their album “..And Justice for All.” And the only people more vocal in their displeasure […]

The internet killed MTV. Have streaming television, social media and on demand music services killed the Grammy telecast? I’ll say yes. In case you missed the memo, which you probably did, since you obviously missed the show, Golden Globe ratings tanked by 62%. Now we can say they were hobbled by Covid-19. Then again, aren’t […]

https://vimeo.com/394734657 Pound for pound the Israelis make the best TV. Canada and the U.K. punch far above their weight in music, but when it comes to TV series, there doesn’t seem to be a bad Israeli show, at least not one I’ve seen. The best is “Prisoners of War.” But really, for me it all […]

People HATE this movie! It’s got a confounding score on RottenTomatoes. It has 80% on the Tomatometer, the average of critics’ reviews, in this case 192, and a 37% audience score, with in excess of 1000 ratings. That’s enough data to be definitive. Sometimes foreign shows have a lack of data. So you don’t know […]