Stephen Webb’s Run On Jeopardy Wasn’t As Good Some Recent Ones. That Doesn’t Mean He Doesn’t Have A Future on the Show When Stephen Webb officially qualified for the Tournament of Champions last Monday, it looked like he had the gift of the all-time greats. Looking near the end of…

Good Husbands by Cate Ray Reading Good Husbands the exceptional thriller by Cate Ray, I could not escape the memory of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s A Letter to Three Wives. This 1949 comedy-drama in a sense was about the title subject: three wives receive a letter from a fourth woman (never…

Part 1: Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln Ten years ago this April Roger Ebert passed away. I have made little secret of the fact that he was one of the greatest influences on my writing and one of the reasons I leaned so hard into criticism as a field. When Roger Ebert…

From the Seitz Decision to The Strike of 1994, The Owners Are Still Determined to Destroy The Players — But Now The Fans Are Becoming Unwilling Accomplices Note: I expect this series may need as many as two parts in addition to this one to get the end; another article…

Especially When You Consider An Earlier Criticique About Movies Made By His Most Famous Collaborator About three years ago Martin Scorsese, one of the greatest filmmakers in history, earned the wrath of the Internet when he stated point blank that comic book movies such as the ones making up the…

And This HBO Reimagining Might Be More Like The Original — In A Way That May Make You Think Differently About the Original In the nearly three years I’ve had to wait since the end of the superb first season of HBO’s reinvention of Perry Mason, I’ve had time to…

Game Theory With Bomani Jones Is The Perfect New Entry To Late Night On HBO Bomani Jones has been around sports media for quite a while but because I tend to avoid cable sports talk in any format, I didn’t become aware of him until last fall when Game Theory…

Jeopardy’s Most Recent Tournament Gets An A For Effort — And Achievement I don’t know how high my initial expectations truly were for Jeopardy’s High School Reunion Tournament, which ended yesterday. It has been a while since I had watched a Teen Tournament from start to finish (when you get…

And Why It Doesn’t Deserve to Be Mentioned in the Same Breath as the great Drama of HBO — Or The Best Peak TV had this theory for a while, pertaining to many HBO series but Succession in particular. I truly believe that if Succession aired on Showtime or Netflix…