Critics have written off Saturday Night Live as “Saturday Night Dead” countless times over the past half-century. But the haters always underestimate the genius of Lorne Michaels and the show’s undying cultural capital that has us hardwired to tune our TVs to NBC every Saturday night. (Or at least catch …
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Since its premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival last February, No Other Land, a documentary about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, has won dozens of critics awards and earned a coveted Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. But the harrowing film, co-directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, …
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Jack Quaid bounds up the stairs of Manhattan’s Midtown Comics like a Golden Retriever on a long-promised walk, his plaid winter jacket fluttering behind him in the January chill. Sandwiched between a 99-cent pizza joint and a smoke shop, the Times Square institution is one of the largest stores of …
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As Tracy Oliver came of age in the Nineties and early 2000s, sitcoms like Girlfriends, Sex and the City and The Golden Girls dominated. Ultimately, their themes surrounding love (or the lack of it) and friendship helped form the blueprint for her own show, Harlem — but she implemented her …
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As Better Call Saul headed into its homestretch, fans were abuzz with how the acclaimed Breaking Bad prequel would end. What would happen to Saul-only characters like Kim Wexler and Lalo Salamanca? How much would we see of events from the Breaking Bad years, and how much more time would …
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In much of today’s filmmaking, from superhero movies to TikTok videos, time is compressed, speeding the action along much faster than it could ever go in reality. In the animated worlds meticulously crafted by Japanese director Naoko Yamada, however, life moves gloriously, realistically slow. Schoolchildren walk at a measured pace, …
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After not making it to hometowns during Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette, Grant Ellis insists he’s still looking for love, escalating his search for a wife as the star of the upcoming season of The Bachelor. As the new season premieres on Monday, Jan. 27, following Ellis as he …
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The original Law & Order premiered on Thursday, Sept. 13, 1990. Fourteen million people tuned in. Thirty-four years later, on Dec. 16, after years of the show’s early seasons being inexplicably absent on American streaming services, the first 20 seasons — all 456 episodes — were released on Hulu, and …
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Tramell Tillman nearly missed the audition for Severance’s perma-smiling Mr. Milchick. On a frigid January day, he made a split decision to make the 15-minute commute on foot, rather than wait for a delayed train. Acting on instinct, much like his limber counterpart, Tillman ran through the industrialized South Bronx …
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Larry Saltzman isn’t a guitar teacher by trade — he’s a high-end session pro who’s toured with Simon and Garfunkel, played in Saturday Night Live‘s house band, and backed up artists from Jewel to Darlene Love to Celine Dion. But for the past decade or so, he’s been moonlighting as …
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