‘Pretend It’s A City’ Trailer: Martin Scorsese Directs A Second Doc About Humorist Fran Lebowitz

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Spike Lee loves cinema and he loves making movies, but, perhaps more than either, he loves filmmakers who are willing to share that kind of love for the art and its craft.

Landmark Studio Group will put the entertainment industry’s most notable BIPOC artists in the spotlight with its new series Inside the Black Box, created and hosted by Emmy-winning actor Joe Morton and Tracey Moore.

The Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson’s Jitney) will begin performances on Broadway during the winter of 2022, producer Manhattan Theatre Club announced today.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticRecently, the comic essayist David Sedaris found himself in the midst of a short-lived cycle of criticism for a piece he delivered on CBS’s “Sunday Morning,” which was inelegantly premised on the idea that Sedaris wanted for himself the right to fire service industry employees at will. That this was plainly unworkable became the piece’s punchline, but the moment for this remained poorly chosen.

One of Fran Lebowitz's finest stories in Netflix's Pretend It's a City — like Cole Porter songs, Agatha Christie mysteries and Barry Bonds home runs, it's a long list — involves a breakfast she shared with jazz legends Charles Mingus and Duke Ellington.

The filmmaker's Netflix-funded follow-up to his 2010 documentary 'Public Speaking' is more of the same - and thank goodness for that.

If like the rest of the country you are not going out this weekend here’s what’s coming out on Netflix in the next few days.

Gallery: Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs sold to Universal Music (dw. com)Iovine is to use the funds to build a high school in inner-city Los Angeles.

All modern superhero movies owe a lot to the work of Richard Donner with the original “Superman” movie, whether it’s “Wonder Woman,” or “Shazam!” or “Guardians of the Galaxy.” Of course, many recent superhero movies go for a darker and grittier tone that’s far removed from the bright optimism of Donner’s 1978 film, and it turns out Donner is not a fan of this trend.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Cobra Kai” Season 3 just dropped on Netflix, which sees John Kreese (played by Martin Kove) further escalate his plans to reestablish his domination of the San Fernando Valley karate scene.The cast of the series confirmed that Kove and the character of Kreese are all but interchangeable at this point, though Kove is much nicer and fun to be around.“He is Kreese on and off set,” Jacob Bertrand, who plays Hawk, told Variety during a recent junket for the show.

Eli Countryman In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix shared a trailer for the “Pretend It’s a City'” docuseries about Fran Lebowitz, and Starz offered a teaser video for “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.”Bravo announced plans to bring new series “Below Deck Galley Talk” to television with a 7 p.m. premiere on Jan. 1.

Take a tour of the Big Apple with Fran Lebowitz.

When you think of monks living their lives in the mountains in Asia, you don’t necessarily imagine them on social media and staring at smartphones. But in “Sing Me A Song,” not only do we meet the monks of the rural monastery in Bhutan, but we also see how one teen Buddhist monk, Peyangki, is not only using social media but also finding love.

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