30 Years of TCM

TCM celebrates 30 years of bringing classic cinema to viewers On April 14, 1994, a cable channel premiered and began to change the way viewers watched classic films. As Turner Classic Movies marks its 30th-anniversary milestone, events both on the air and in person at the 15th TCM Classic Film Festival — to be staged…

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the girls on the bus

A disparate group of female journalists covering a presidential campaign bond in The Girls on the Bus In her memoir, Chasing Hillary, New York Times journalist Amy Chozick detailed how the terse relationship between Hillary Clinton and the media affected the outcome of the elections in 2008 and 2016. Chozick, who makes it clear that…

Parish

Giancarlo Esposito stars in New Orleans-set crime drama Parish Best known for portraying drug lord Gus Fring on Breaking Bad, Giancarlo Esposito now goes from the New Mexico underworld to New Orleans in his latest project, Parish. Esposito plays the titular character, Gracián “Gray” Parish, a man who had left a past full of questionable…

The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

The epic love story of two Walking Dead favourites drives harrowing new spinoff The Ones Who Live After being separated for almost a decade, two soulmates are reunited in the never-ending zombie apocalypse. But, if love truly conquers all, is that not the end of the story? In the case of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln)…

Queens

Females rule in National Geographic’s fierce new nature docuseries Queens When award-winning documentary producer Vanessa Berlowitz pitched a standalone doc about matriarchs in the animal kingdom to National Geographic, even she was unsure about the originality of her own idea. “The amazing senior exec there, who also happens to be a female, said, ‘This is…

The Invisible Shield

New PBS series The Invisible Shield examines how public health makes modern life possible Inspired by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and rooted in the history of healthcare systems worldwide, PBS’s new documentary series, The Invisible Shield, explores the intricacies of public safety and global health. For the first time, as if by magic,…

Palm Royale

Kristen Wiig stars as a Palm Beach social climber in this star-studded ’60s dramedy Set in sunny, colourful late-1960s Palm Beach, Palm Royale is an underdog story about social climber Maxine Simmons, played by Kristen Wiig, trying to break into Palm Beach high society by joining the posh Palm Royale country club. And what a…

Alice & Jack on Masterpiece

A long-lasting and complex romance unfolds in Alice & Jack PBS’s Masterpiece showcase has brought viewers numerous love stories over the decades, but it’s safe to say they haven’t seen anything like Alice & Jack. Starring Domhnall Gleeson (Run) and Andrea Riseborough (To Leslie), the six-episode series created by Mad About You and Mad Men…

Apples Never Fall

Annette Bening stars in this screen adaptation of Apples Never Fall, a gripping mystery from the author of Big Little Lies It all starts with the seemingly perfect family: Revered tennis coaches Joy and Stan Delaney (Annette Bening and Sam Neill), a husband and wife who run a famed tennis academy in West Palm Beach,…

Planet Earth III

Director Fredi Devas shares insight on shooting David Attenborough’s anticipated Planet Earth III When wildlife filmmaker Fredi Devas discovered he was about to helm an episode of David Attenborough’s nature documentary series Planet Earth III called “Humans,” his reaction was surprisingly not, “Ugh, that’s my least favourite animal.” “Not at all. I love humans,” says…

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