Julia Garner admits to feeling "intimidated" when she met Anna Sorokin — who posed as a German heiress in New York society named Anna Delvey — and was later convicted of fraud. Garner...

A man sits on the edge of an infinity pool contemplating his existence in Michel Franco's " Sundown." It's one of many such ennui-laden images, though the settings get less luxurious as we go along on...

Adaptations of books to film and television often take liberties or stray from the original text. Tom Cruise played Jack Reacher twice on film but didn't match the physical description of the...

In last year's "The Suicide Squad," John Cena's Peacemaker is a jingoistic, bigoted superhero. Transferring the DC Comics character to a TV series spinoff gave writer-director James Gunn a forum to...

Filmmaker Robert Greene knows well the burden of responsibility in making a documentary. It's not just to the film itself, the audience or the storytelling. It's the responsibility to the subjects in...

An impactful, if not cringe-worthy moment in the new Hulu series, " Pam & Tommy, " is when Lily James as Pamela Anderson is interviewed by Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" and he asks her about her...

Richard Davis was a bankrupt pizzeria owner when he got the idea for a bulletproof vest in 1969 Michigan. Body armor was nothing new, of course, but Davis had an inkling that he could make...

When Demond Wilson heard that Redd Foxx was going to star in a TV sitcom, the actor brushed it off as a joke. Foxx was a killer stand-up comic, with a trademark raunchiness that Wilson figured to...

Isla Fisher's character in the new genre-bending series "Wolf Like Me" is a romantic catch. Kind of. She speaks four languages, makes cheese and pottery and is good at close-up magic. On the...

How U.S. history is told and taught is being challenged and potentially constricted on several fronts, but television's approach to Black History Month is firmly in overdrive. There's a wealth of...