While it's not unusual for movies and TV shows to be set in post-apocalyptic worlds, we're seldom treated to the sight of ours actually coming to an end. That was the conceit, and central challenge…
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"The Story of God With Morgan Freeman" is a very good title, marketing-wise, for a series that could have been called "Introduction to Religion" or "Belief" (as it was when OWN recently covered…
First Lucasfilm and now parent Disney have been clever about using animation as a means to keep the "Star Wars" franchise alive between movies. But as the dazzling, action-packed one-hour finale of…
Billed as being "suggested by" the Steven Soderbergh film of the same name, "The Girlfriend Experience" is an interesting if somewhat unfocused look at sexual politics. And if the full 13-episode…
CNN's decennial trips down memory lane continue with "The Eighties," which kicks off its seven-part run March 31 with a two-hour installment devoted to television. Absorbing the flood of nostalgia…
"Empire" returns from its midseason hiatus with fresh episodes starting March 30, although given the plot twists, the first two hours sort of feel like a rerun. Perhaps inevitably, Fox's breakthrough…
CBS has exhausted so many permutations of the buddy-cop format that the network has inevitably resorted to adapting and recycling. It does a bit of both with "Rush Hour," a light-hearted series…
There's nothing subtle marketing-wise about the latest animated DC movie, "Justice League vs. Teen Titans," timed to hit the streets mere days after "Batman v. Superman" made its debut. Yet the…
Reactions to the massive box office haul for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” included a rather lazy old canard – namely, the notion that the Dark Knight and Man of Steel had overcome the slings…
Just to prove there ought to be moratorium on sitcoms in which stars play themselves, two arrive the same week. TV Land's George Lopez vehicle, "Lopez," has the better platform, but is actually less…
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