The Mandalorian, the first live-action spin-off from the blockbuster “Star Wars” film franchise, has come to a galaxie near you — Disney+. There’s a lot to like with this series, especially if you were a fan of the original “Star Wars” movies. I saw the very first “Star Wars” feature on its opening day in
It’s Jeff Goldblum’s world — we just live in it. That’s pretty much the premise behind The World According to Jeff Goldblum, a new reality documentary series now up and streaming on just launched Disney +. Goldblum, of course, is the ever stylish actor familiar to millions from The Lost World film franchise but also
If you have read any reviews of The Morning Show that slams it as the next Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, ignore them. The $300 million (over two seasons), flagship drama of the new Apple TV+ streaming service is frothy good drama that gets better and better with every episode. This is not to
The live sketch comedy “Middle Raged” played to a packed audience Saturday night at the Westdale Theatre in Hamilton, Ont. Ex-22 Minutes player Geri Hall and TV writer/producer Gary Pearson (MADtv, Sunnyside),wrote and performed the entire show. The talented duo, friends and neighbours for years in Oakville, basically threw their own lives and families into
On Friday, Netflix premiered eight new episodes of one of my favourite shows, The Kominsky Method. On the surface, it’s about an aging but still charismatic LA acting coach (Michael Douglas) whose career never really took off, and his elderly super agent pal Norman (Alan Arkin). Really though it’s about aging, a subject these two
If the recent Canadian federal election has left some of us wondering what the heck we ever evolved from, The Nature of Things has some answers. This Friday, Oct. 25, the long-running series takes a look at “First Animals,” the strange creatures that emerged from ancient seas over half a billion years ago. Canadians, it
TV is expanding at such a rapid pace there’s just no time left for a TV critic to even type! That’s one reason I’m posting more and more video reviews here — shot in my car between errands. WIth Disney and Apple launching even more content in a week, these drive by reviews are the
Well, that was five hours I’ll never get back. The federal election coverage was like being dragged to an in-law wedding where dinner and booze are never served, the speeches are terrible and nobody wants to kiss the bride. CBC held their pundit-palooza in a dark, cavernous space with desks strewn like train cars across