Movies
“Sopranos” Prequel Movie “Many Saints of Newark” Review Embargo Lifts Day Before Premiere
Surprise!
The day before "The Many Saints of Newark" is set to premiere in New York, the review embargo lifted. That's very unusual. Warner Bros....
Television
UPDATED Ratings: “NCIS” Moves to Mondays, Drops 18%, “Dancing with the Stars” Premiere Loses 3 Mil, Time 100 Special Tanks
UPDATED Monday, Monday: "NCIS" moved to Mondays last night in its 200th season. Audience dropped by 500,000 viewers, to 8.45 million.
When we last saw...
Movies
Video: See the Trailer Teaser for Joel Coen’s “Macbeth” Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand
"Something wicked this way comes."
That could be a warning about a lot of things including the New York Film Festival, which opens this...
Television
Sunday Ratings: Faithful Few Are Watching the End of “Walking Dead,” “Billions” At Half Viewership from 2020
Sunday night, 7.8 million people watched the desultory Emmy Awards. That doesn't seem like much but things were worse on cable.
Over at AMC, "The...
Music
RIP Sarah Dash, Original Member of Labelle, Dead at 76, One of the Most Glorious Singers and Human Beings Ever
Sarah Dash, a literal angel, one of the great human beings of all time, has died at age 76.
A gifted vocalist, Sarah was an...
Television
Broadway: CBS Will Not Give Best Actors, Actresses Tony Awards on Air, Only on Streaming Special
The belated 2020 Tony Awards are coming this Sunday, but on CBS they will be an iffy deal.
CBS is running a two hour special...
awards
Emmy Awards Third Least Watched of All Time with Just 7.4 Million, But Up 16% from Last Year
The Emmy Awards' ratings are good news/bad news.
Last night's show, which I thought was mostly dreadful, was the third least watched edition in history....
Books
Star Wars Revenge of the Editor: Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’s Ex Wife, Furious Han Solo and Luke Skywalker Were Killed Off
Marcia Lucas was the editor on "Star Wars" and "Return of the Jedi." In between she was the uncredited editor on "The Empire Strikes...