TV Review: ‘The Story of God With Morgan Freeman’
"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…
Brian Lowry
Review: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ Takes Dark Turn in Dazzling Season Finale (SPOILERS)
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…
TV Review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience’
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 ‘The Eighties’ Examines TV’s Most Influential Decade
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…
Review: ‘Empire’ Sings Same Old Tune in Midseason Premiere
"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…
TV Review: ‘Rush Hour’
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…
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Justice League vs. Teen Titans’
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…
‘Batman v Superman’ Versus the Puny Critics? Puh-leeze
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…
TV Review: ‘Lopez,’ ‘Hoff the Record’ Both Feature Stars Playing Themselves
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…
Garry Shandling: A Brilliant Comedic Observer of Hollywood Neuroses
Garry Shandling wasn't necessarily a natural for television, but he was something of a genius at mastering the form and subtly turning it on its head. The comic, who died suddenly Thursday at 66…
TV Review: ‘Only the Dead See the End of War’
If a picture is worth a thousand words, it takes an awful lot of pictures – grisly, horrific ones – to drown out the banality of the verbiage in "Only the Dead See the End of War," Michael Ware's…
