Matt Groening’s new animated comedy “Disenchantment” (Friday, Netflix) looks a lot like his legendary series “The Simpsons.”
Christopher Lawrence
Movie and TV critic
Email: clawrence@reviewjournal.com
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Christopher Lawrence escaped his native Kentucky without an accent thanks to the thousands of hours he spent in front of a television as a child. That’s also why he never learned how to ride a bicycle. He’s been writing about TV and movies since his days at Murray State University, when the school’s basketball coach had him reassigned at the student newspaper after just one story about the team. He’s been a professional TV critic since 2000, the Review-Journal’s TV critic since 2005 and its movie critic since 2012.
“Crazy Rich Asians” doesn’t just embrace romantic-comedy cliches. It grabs those tropes by the waist and lifts them into the air, “Dirty Dancing”-style, before giving them a big, sloppy kiss on a crowded train platform in the rain.
After three seasons and a handful of episodes of the upcoming fourth, it’s time to accept the fact that Dwayne Johnson’s “Ballers” (10 p.m. Sunday, HBO) will never be more than a dopey, mildly distracting bit of escapism.
Spike Lee is basically the filmmaking equivalent of the Hulk.
Barring some sort of last-minute public relations nightmare, Netflix will release the first season of “Insatiable” on Friday.
The loss of the Tivoli Village Canter’s Deli, which abruptly closed last month, was a blow to Summerlin’s pastrami fans, but it could be seen as a boon for music lovers.
“Jean-Luc Picard is back.”
As an avid skydiver, Matt Jaskol is used to jumping out of perfectly good airplanes.
Few things will break you out of a rut and get your mind right faster than having a friend you haven’t seen in 30 years show up in your yard, unannounced, without wearing any pants.
If you watch Ryan Hamilton’s comedy special, “Happy Face,” Netflix will recommend other stand-up performances, including concerts by anger merchants Bill Burr, Jim Norton and the late Sam Kinison.
Kayla Day is a baffling ball of hormones, anger and self-doubt.
Dean DiLullo isn’t waiting for Hollywood to come calling. The Carson Nugget owner has written a pilot script for a sitcom, set inside his casino, that would star his friend Joe Piscopo.
Of the roughly bajillion-and-seven scripted series that debuted last year, I can’t recall a bigger surprise than “The Sinner.”
If there’s one thing I could say to Tom Cruise, it would be this: CGI.
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