Adapted by screenwriters Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim from Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name, endearing romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians sets a familiar princess storyline in a world that’s probably unfamiliar to most viewers: The re...

The notion behind the recently debuted Hulu series Castle Rock is enticing, because series creators Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason invented new characters and stories that exist within the fictional universe of novelist Stephen King. The series title i...

An outrageous crime story based on real events, BlacKkKlansman ranks alongside director Spike Lee’s most entertaining and vital films, even though he didn’t develop the material. Producers acquired the memoir upon which the film is based, commissione...

In many ways continuing and deepening the cultural conversation sparked by last year’s Get Out, the current social satire Sorry to Bother You offers another brazen sci-fi/horror spin on contemporary American race relations, laced — as was Get Out — w...

Exploring the myriad problems facing a contemporary Montana rancher and his adult children, the Paramount Network series Yellowstone doesn’t lack for dramatic content.

Throughout its lively first season, the Netflix half-hour dramedy GLOW blended serious themes with silly spectacle by transforming a real life oddity from the 1980s — the sports-entertainment franchise “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling” (GLOW for short) ...

There’s an easygoing charm to Ant-Man (2015) and its current sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, that some Marvel Cinematic Universe pictures with more spectacle and sweep can’t match. And while Ant-Man and the Wasp isn’t nearly as sprightly as its predece...

One fascinating aspect of the peak-TV era is the growth of narrowcasting. Simply put, narrowcasting (a term that goes back to the 1940s) means creating specialized content for specialized audiences. Two factors make this concept central to the peak-T...

The premise of the Jurassic Park franchise is that a scientist used DNA extracted from a fossil to create a horde of test-tube dinosaurs, leading to rampant carnage. Yet in some ways, the franchise’s narrative DNA has caused as many lasting problems ...