Saturday, Mar. 9, 2019

Beto O'Rourke is sitting in his kitchen hours after a closer-than-expected Texas Senate race loss to Ted Cruz, musing about how his campaign brought out the best in thousands of supporters.

"Somehow we've got to continue that way," he tells his wife, Amy, who stares into his face without...

Monday, Mar. 4, 2019

Now that AT&T's $81 billion takeover of Time Warner is a done deal , the company is reorganizing its TV and movie businesses to emphasize streaming rather than cable TV networks.

AT&T is bringing in a new executive as longtime HBO and Turner chiefs leave. It's also consolidating...

Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019

A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared AT&T's takeover of Time Warner, rejecting the Trump administration's claims that the $81 billion deal will harm consumers and reduce competition in the TV industry.

The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington came in the high-stakes...

Friday, Jan. 25, 2019

HBO's new film on newspaper columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill romanticizes an era in New York and journalism that feels like a long, long time ago.

The fact that it's very recent history makes "Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists" partly a tragedy.

The two men embodied a...

Saturday, Sep. 22, 2018

As beguiling and powerful as Jane Fonda is onscreen, she has yet to play a role that's a match for her whiplash-inducing life of artistry, celebrity and polarizing activism. Then there's the personal drama, including serial marriages to three very different husbands with their own claims to fame...

Wednesday, Jul. 18, 2018

When filmmaker Marina Zenovich sought to make a documentary about Robin Williams, she found that she could do it largely in the late comedian's own voice.

"Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind," uses a wealth of archival footage to put viewers inside his thought process — mirroring a...

Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2018

When a figure is as fundamental to our history and national identity as Martin Luther King Jr., is there anything left to learn about him?

Actually, it may be precisely because King is such a towering figure in our collective memory that we tend to focus on a few big moments — Montgomery...

Friday, Mar. 23, 2018

You're on the couch. It's been a long day. The remote control is in your hand. What can you watch?

There's that new CNN documentary series on the pope. Or maybe you're more in the mood for some sinners in "Girls Incarcerated" on Netflix? There are cute critters on Hulu's "March of the...

Monday, Mar. 26, 2018

An accomplished narrative filmmaker—as evidenced by Maggie’s Plan, a Sony Pictures Classics release starring Greta Gerwig and Julianne Moore, Personal Velocity which won the Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Independent Spirit’s coveted John Cassavetes Award, and her first...

Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017

The White House is hostile to the press, public figures misbehave and a vital Washington Post is at the center of the national conversation. Think any of those things are new?

HBO's film on the legendary Post editor Ben Bradlee proves otherwise. "The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of...

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