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The start of a beautiful friendship: Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) and Big Boo (Lea DeLaria).  (Photo by JoJo Whilden - © 2015 Netflix)

Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ Season 3

Complicated ladies in a complicated place

Now in its third season, Orange Is the New Black returns to see the ladies of Litchfield remaining resourceful and optimistic about their incarcerated future, while battling with problems both inside and outside of the prison walls.
Jessica Friedman

Jessica Friedman

Articles 5 minute read
John Huston and Orson Welles (American Film Institute, afi.com)

Orson Welles’s 'The Other Side of the Wind'

The best movie never made?

Orson Welles spent 15 years on a movie he couldn’t complete. The legend is perhaps bigger than the film could have been.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read
An unlikely duo: Mirren and Reynolds. (Photo by Robert Viglasky - © 2014 The Weinstein Company.)

Simon Curtis's 'Woman in Gold'

The most brazen theft of them all

Woman in Gold tells one of Hollywood’s favorite stories, justice against the odds. In this case, it happens to be true.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read
"Don, come home." (All photos © AMC)

The end of 'Mad Men'

The cynical redemption of Don Draper

If the purpose of the retreat is to figure out who you really are, how you feel about that, and how to recognize love, then isn’t it an act of radical honesty and self-acceptance for Don to embrace himself as a person who works best when he spins his dreams into brilliant ad copy?

Paula Berman

Articles 6 minute read
On the road to hell with Guy Fieri. (Photo via foodnetwork.com)

Is the Food Network making us fat?

While the Food Network has its share of old-fashioned cooking shows, hosted by pleasant, chatty cooks, each with a personal schtick, the network's dominant subgenres are the cooking competition and the eating travelogue.
Gary L. Day

Gary L. Day

Articles 4 minute read
Godard’s 3D is not like others’: Marie Ruchat in "Goodbye to Language" (© 2014 - Kino Lorber Inc.)

'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and 'Goodbye to Language'

The 4K redemption

What digital cinema makes possible could not have happened with celluloid, love it as much as we wish. Dr. Caligari and Goodbye to Language show why.

Michael Woods

Articles 6 minute read

Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ by the BBC

A Machiavelli for all seasons

For more than five centuries, Thomas Cromwell was perceived as the evil genius behind the machinations and marriages of England’s Henry VIII. Hilary Mantel’s brilliant novel Wolf Hall enables us to see Henry’s conspiracy-ridden court through Cromwell’s eyes. The BBC’s recent adaptation renders the experience even more compelling.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 7 minute read
The triumph of law and order. (Photo © 2015, FX Networks.)

FX's 'Justified'

Good-bye to a great bad guy

Justified shows the edgy, hand-on-your-gun relationship between lawman and outlaw in “Bloody Harlan.”
Bob Ingram

Bob Ingram

Articles 3 minute read
Pinpoint anger and possible delusion: Hutton and Huffman. (Photo by Van Redin/ABC - © 2015)

John Ridley's 'American Crime' on ABC

ABC grows up

Improbably, ABC now steps up to challenge the best cable crime series. Honest.
Rick Soisson

Rick Soisson

Articles 3 minute read
A skinny, big-eared kid: Sinatra c. 1947. (William P. Gottlieb Collection, Library of Congress)

'Sinatra: All or Nothing at All' on HBO

A man of contradictions

Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago. HBO’s documentary reveals the flaws of this fascinating, contradictory man.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read