Remember AnnaLynne McCord, the young actress who ripped her way through several seasons of Nip/Tuck, then clocked time in such less impressive efforts as TV remakes of Dallas and 90210? Well, she bounces back in this 2017 movie, all grown up, playing a temptress for whom robbery comes easy – and murder even easier. Matthew Gray Gubler plays the guy who, like a modern-day film noir patsy, gets caught in her seductive and deadly web.

2018

Jun

800 WORDS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This New Zealand drama, starring Erik Thomson as a man trying to raise his family in a remote New Zealand coastal town, returns for Season 3. Note, please, that I managed to describe 800 Words in 50 words or less. Forty-six, to be precise.

2018

Jun

C.B. STRIKE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Cinemax detective series is based on the crime novels by Robert Galbraith – which might not mean much, unless you are aware that Galbraith is one of the pseudonyms of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who crafted these stories about a war veteran turned London detective. The seven episodes cover the three Strike novels published to date, with Tom Burke as the title character, and Holliday Grainger as his Watson-like assistant. For a full review, read Ed Bark's Unc

2018

Jun

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s scheduled guests include Bernie Sanders, Paul Begala, and, for Maher the avowed atheist (is there such a thing?), a noteworthy guest indeed: Charlamagne Tha God. (For the record, this particular God is a radio host, not a deity.

2018

Jun

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s show is scheduled to be devoted, in part, to the newest Jurassic Park movie, with guests Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum, Bryce Dallas Howard, and others.

2018

Jun

A LOVELY TRIBUTE TO A SHORT LIFE By Monique Nazareth

“Destiny is a gift … Never forget that fear is but the precursor to valor, that to strive and triumph in the face of fear, is what it means to be a hero. Don’t think … Become!”

2018

Jun

CINEMAX MAKES SOLID CONTACT WITH J.K. ROWLINGS' 'C.B. STRIKE' By Ed Bark

How sweet it is to see a straight-ahead crime solving series starring a detective with no built-in superpowers, physical or otherwise...

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