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Christopher Lawrence
Movie and TV critic
Email: clawrence@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 380-4567
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.
With the NHL season on hold, it’s going to be a while before we can hope to see the Golden Knights again. But there’s still hockey to watch — at least in movie form.
Eleven is greater than eight. It’s also greater than 12 or 13. And, if memory serves, eight is slightly less than 13 but much greater than 12.
“American Ninja Warrior” is bringing Mount Midoriyama to the Las Vegas Strip for the seventh time.
Even after the Knights’ first three-game losing streak of the playoffs, Monday’s Game 4 broadcast on NBC earned a 20.5 local rating, meaning of all the households in Las Vegas with televisions, 20.5 percent of them were watching.
“Dietland” is wildly creative and would have fit in nicely on any number of cable channels or streaming services.
The lost-at-sea survival tale “Adrift” is based on a true story, but it plays out like mediocre “Life of Pi” fan fiction that started with the premise “What if Pi were a young woman wearing short shorts and bikinis and the tiger in the boat was an older, hunky Brit?”
Mike Plante’s most impressive title, by far, is senior programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. But that lacks the panache of his new position with the Las Vegas Film Festival.
Even in a city known for staging massive events, they’re two of the hottest tickets in years.
Haven’t seen “Hamilton”? Don’t have tickets? Check out these facts you can drop into any conversation about the musical to help you sound like an expert.
Thanks to some exhaustive source material, “Hamilton” is historically accurate — for the most part. Lin-Manuel Miranda did take a few creative liberties, however.
So you weren’t able to score tickets to “Hamilton” — or weren’t willing to fork over the dozens upon dozens of Hamiltons for the tickets that were available. Here are some ways to console yourself:
Maybe — just maybe — there’s such a thing as too much “Star Wars.”
Adaptations are all the rage this summer with new TV series based on novels by Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Tom Clancy and Gillian Flynn, as well as a Marvel comic book, the movie “Heathers” and the life of Kyle Richards of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
Eric Preiss never planned on a career in movies and television.
