TV amp; Movies

The stumbling block for political satire is that it’s almost always partisan — which is great if it flatters your views, and grating if it doesn’t. But not for Jon Stewart. In his first writing-directing gig since 2014’s docudrama Rosewater, the former late-night fixture ingeniously makes it impossible to take …

A Texas mother pushes her reluctant teen daughter to follow in her footsteps as a beauty queen. Yes, we’ve seen so many versions of this story before — but luckily, the Miss Juneteenth competition is no typical beauty pageant. It commemorates the day in 1865, some two years after the …

Dating Amber Set in Ireland during the mid-90s, Eddie (portrayed by Fionn O’Shea) and Amber (portrayed by Lola Petticrew) are two teens attempting to fit in. Only, things aren’t going so well. While both are secretly gay, their peers already suspect it. To spare themselves the ridicule, the two friends …

Oprah Winfrey will lead a conversation with black thought leaders, activists and artists next week called OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?, Variety reports. The two-night special will air on the host’s OWN channel on June 9th and 10th at 9 p.m. ET and will also be simulcast …

A woman wakes up in a rowboat. She’s in the middle of a lake. She has no idea how she got there. Worse, she has no idea who she is. This is a hell of a starting point — the possibilities seem virtually limitless for the kinds of stories you …

Ken Osmond, the actor best known for playing Eddie Haskell on the classic sitcom Leave It to Beaver before leaving the industry to become a police officer, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles, Variety reports. He was 76. A cause of death was not immediately available, though Osmond’s …

Lynn Shelton, the director of acclaimed independent films like Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister and episodes of New Girl, G.L.O.W. and Little Fires Everywhere, died Friday at the age of 54. The cause of death was a blood disorder, Variety reported. Marc Maron, Shelton’s partner at the time of her …

Daveed Diggs shot to fame after the Bay-area rapper was cast in Broadway’s blockbuster hit Hamilton as Alexander Hamilton’s nemesis, Thomas Jefferson, a role for which he won a Tony. Since then, he’s appeared in numerous TV shows, and in 2018, Blindspotting, his first feature film — which he co-wrote …

Most people may remember Ashton Sanders from his pivotal role as high school-aged Chiron in the Oscar-winning film Moonlight. That moment he shared a kiss with his crush, Kevin (Jharrel Jerome), we knew he’d cemented his acting career with one of the most indelible moments in contemporary cinema. Since then, …

A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Ransom,” coming up just as soon as I show the right level of excitement for a yellow-crested warbler… There is only one thing to complain about with “Ransom,” the funniest episode of Season Seven, and one of the funniest Nine-Nine installments in years, …