**“Howdy Kids: A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup”**ought to be called “Howdy Boomers,” because the people most likely to grab a copy are the ones who grew up watching these half-hour TV Westerns. T
Oil up the gloves and break out the baseball caps. Baseball season is just three days away. And those three days seem meant for baseball movies to fuel fans' optimism about teams that realistically (w
The historical romance genre is one that can see its movies go one of two ways. The first, less entertaining way sees a movie pick a historical/royal figure, put them in a lot of big wigs and fancy co
Henri Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is an odd little man, a former bank clerk who loses his job in the Depression and opts for a new career in “liquidating members of the opposite sex.” Verdoux stockpiles
Everyone knows how this ends. Barclays paid a truckload of money to get the naming rights, boss man Bruce Ratner got his development, and Nets part-owner Jay Z got his courtside seats. The little guys
In 2008, newly elected President Barack Obama announced he would assemble a cabinet inspired by Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln—the same book tha
Cartoonist David Low first introduced the pot-bellied, walrus-mustached Colonel Blimp to British readers in the 1930s. In single-panel installments, the military lifer held court from a Turkish bath,
With HBO's lineup primarily drama driven it is nice to watch “Veep”, a flat-out comedy basted with R-rated sarcasm and some hilarious satire pointed at the political system and those who work in i
I’m mildly ashamed to begin this review of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” by stating that I’ve not read J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit. It probably would have helped me to contextualize th
As I wrote in my review of Season 1, **“H2O: Just Add Water”**is an Australian TV series obviously intended for teen and pre-teen audiences. But the creators and writers add a lot more than water. Eve
Curious George is one those children’s lit characters that’s so prominent it’s easy to think of him as having always existed. But George’s history is actually quite brief. The husband-wife writer and
Fans of “Downton Abbey,” and of homes that look like museums, should chortle with repressed delight for the new PBS release “Secrets of Highclere Castle.” Home to the Carnavon family for 300 year