'Tommy': TV Review

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – These days, the horror-fantasy thriller tends to be a junk metaphysical spook show that throws a whole lot of scary clutter at the audience — ghosts, “demons,” mad killers — without necessarily adding up to an experience that’s about anything.

The media mogul Harvey Weinstein who was facing charges of sexual assault and third-degree rape has been found guilty of the charges. The media personality became a major talking point when the #MeToo movement began in Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – The Los Angeles that TV and movies portray is rarely, as anyone who’s actually from Los Angeles can tell you, particularly accurate to life there outside the entertainment industry. The sprawling city is dense with its own culture, much of which, thanks to sharp influxes money and new (whiter) residents, is perpetually in danger of getting pushed out.

The Los Angeles that TV and movies portray is rarely, as anyone who’s actually from Los Angeles can tell you, particularly accurate to life there outside the entertainment industry. The sprawling city is dense with its own culture, much of which, thanks to sharp influxes money and new (whiter) residents, is perpetually in danger of getting pushed out.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “Hunters,” a new Amazon series about vigilantes seeking to bring justice to Nazis hiding in 1970s America, is fixated in ways by which violence can be made weird. It features a vast conspiracy of Nazis embedded in the U.S.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Dogs, in their rambunctious domesticated way, can lead us overly civilized humans a step or two closer to the natural world. So it’s only fitting that the best dog movies have saluted that unruly canine spirit without a lot of artificial flavouring.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Justin Bieber still doesn’t really get the credit he’s earned. The string of celebrity relationships, the bad-boy behaviour, the tattoos and ever-evolving hair styles and hues — all these things have had a tendency to distract from the obvious, which is: That boy can sing.

NEW YORK -- In her role in the news CBS drama “Tommy,” actress Edie Falco plays the first female chief of police in Los Angeles, but the native New Yorker found a way to shoot the show in her hometown.

LOS ANGELES – Life couldn’t be going any better for Brittany Furlan.

Gentefied, Netflix's new series about a Mexican-American family from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, is a painstakingly crafted love letter to that specific Latinx community. Described as a rich tapestry of the neighborhood by its creators Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez, Gentefied was originally an anthology-style web series following seven different characters struggling to navigate the gentrification of Boyle Heights.

"This is for my kids who colour everything I do. I adore you," Brad Pitt had concluded in his short, simple and sweet winning speech as he took home his first-ever Oscar in the Actor in a Supporting Role category for playing stuntman Cliff Booth in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

There was no shortage of PDA at the 2020 Academy Awards! Celebrity couples lined the red carpet for the biggest night in film on Sunday, February 9.

Even the stars have stars they're excited to see when it comes to the Oscars.

Garcelle Beauvais is stepping into the docu-series spotlight.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – The vibe of Netflix’s “Locke and Key” is best described in Netflix terms.

After years of playing formidable women such as Carmela Soprano (“The Sopranos”), Jackie Peyton (“Nurse Jackie”), Celeste Cunningham (“30 Rock”) and the real-life Leslie Abramson (“Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders”), Edie Falco is adding another to the list: Abigail Thomas aka the titular “Tommy” in CBS’s new cop drama.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – On the scale of damage that a devil-doll superheroine can cause, breaking a man’s legs doesn’t sound all that extreme. Yet when Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), the vengeful sister-of-mayhem in “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” breaks legs, she does it with a certain hellbent je ne sais quoi.

At one point, a character in the Los Angeles-set feature Wander Darkly wonders what it was they did to deserve "spending an eternity on the 10 freeway." The line is funnier when you realize that, on one level, that's what might literally be happening in this dreamy drama about a character recently killed in a car crash, hovering on the porch of the afterlife, not quite ready to cross over.The fourth feature by writer-director Tara Miele (anorexia drama Starving in Suburbia, as well as that

As a dignifying corrective to the demeaning portrayal of Bruce Lee on the Green Hornet set in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which let's face it, basically made him the butt of a white he-man joke, Be Water has value. But as a survey of the life and legacy of the hugely influential martial arts game-changer, Bao Nguyen's slickly packaged, engrossing bio-documentary for ESPN feels less than definitive.