As the pandemic starts to ease and life still very short of normal resumes, there is a big question out there: Does a pandemic movie still work? Stop and Go, while absolutely both shot and lived in a bubble, is a fun ride regardless thanks to the che...

It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time before contemporary Christian rock stations on the radio. The history of the genre also has an unexpectedly tempestuous past, particularly if you consider the fact that the musicians in that world were large...

Maid is the long-awaited adaptation of Stephanie Land’s novel: "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive". The show was brought to Netflix by a team of heavy hitters; TV veteran John Wells (ER and Southland) steered a production team ...

Last Night in Rozzie is a personal film for the team behind it. Screenwriter Ryan McDonough hails from Roslindale, outside of Boston (the town, according to McDonough, was not as idyllic as it is today). McDonough wrote from a combination of personal...

Television satire is rare. There’s the eyebrow-raising South Park, the always reliable SNL, and the genre-redefining The Office, but it doesn’t seem that streamers or networks often want to take the risk on new satire, rarely putting the faith in an ...

Audience goers likely know James DeMonaco’s work from The Purge films, but he recently broke away from the franchise to make a highly personal piece with This is the Night. The movie honors a small-town Staten Island community when Rocky III premiere...

The Voyeurs is possibly giving the erotic thriller a come-back. Roger Ebert used to call this kind of film the “rumpy-pumpy.” And there are indeed some pumps and bumps in this movie, as well as some unexpected turns (especially still in the midst of ...

As Los Angeles Dances with Films' epic line-up of three solid weeks of programming has now ended, many films will continue to linger in the consciousness. Audience Award Winner for Best Short Film in competition Oh, Baby! is one such film. It’s a fem...

On Monday, September 6, the world lost one of the first-ever female television comedy producers with the passing of Irma Kalish at age 96. Kalish’s work is a historic treasure trove of TV comedy history, with work stretching from Maude and All in the...