After seeing Barack and Michelle Obama in the public eye for the last eight years, it can be difficult to think of them as anything other than the President...
TV and film
I used to wonder when I’d finally feel grown up. I thought it would be a more cataclysmic rite of passage—like getting married, having a baby, or going to your...
Childbirth on television is not, shall we say, precisely accurate. Hollywood seems to consider a new human being’s arrival on the planet to be utterly lacking...
Audiences like Sally Field. They really, really like her. And in her new film, Hello, My Name Is Doris (Roadside Attractions, 2016), she is poignantly human...
Actor Jonathan Roumie has portrayed, arguably, the most famous person in history. No role could compare to playing Jesus Christ, in projects that have...
The statute of limitations has long since expired on the crimes that caused the global economic collapse of 2008, and there never was any public accounting...
The first Star Wars film came out when I was just a year old. I have a sentimental attachment to the franchise, but my 10-year-old daughter is the real deal: a...
“If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” In the movie Spotlight, those words, spoken almost in passing by a victims’...
Brooklyn Directed by John Crowley (Fox Searchlight, 2015) Within the first 10 minutes of Brooklyn, it is clear that the film’s lead, Eilis (Saoirse...
When Girls made its debut on HBO in 2012, critics labeled the show’s creator Lena Dunham the voice of a generation. The response to Netflix’s Master of None...
