Television

Podcaster Leon Neyfakh leads you through some of Watergate's lesser-known twists and turns on the EPIX series Slow Burn.

Arts

'Slow Burn' Captures The Drip-Drip-Drip Of Watergate

9:00am February 16, 2020

by Glen Weldon

By focusing on figures who "played roles in the story that are larger than history remembers" this gripping adaptation of a hit podcast reminds us how slowly the Watergate scandal unfolded.

A clerk pick an item for a customer order at the Amazon Prime warehouse in New York. Amazon Empire director James Jacoby describes the pace of work within the company's warehouses as "incredibly grueling."

Arts

Filmmaker Tracks Bezos' 'Rise And Reign' And How Amazon Became 'Inescapable'

11:30am February 14, 2020

by Terry Gross

Director James Jacoby catalogs the reach of the tech giant in his new PBS Frontline documentary, Amazon Empire. "So much power is pooled into the hands of one company and one man," he says.

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Wait a minute, that's Lara Jean, but that's not Peter Kavinsky! (Jordan Fisher and Lana Condor play John Ambrose and Lara Jean Song Covey.)

Arts

In 'P.S. I Still Love You,' The 'To All The Boys' Story Gets More Complicated

5:00am February 12, 2020

by Linda Holmes

The follow-up to Netflix's well-received YA romcom To All The Boys I've Loved Before finds its principals working on what happens after that closing kiss.

Today's stories about disease — like The Walking Dead with its zombies — tend to be rooted in political and social realities.

What Fictional Pandemics Can Teach Us About Real-World Survival

5:22pm February 10, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

People have been telling stories about pandemics for thousands of years — once, they were tales of divine retribution, but today they're often rooted in current events like the coronavirus outbreak.

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Lee Sun-kyun and Jo Yeo-jeong play the wealthy Parks in Parasite.

Arts

Yes, 'Parasite' Could Win Best Picture

5:00am February 09, 2020

by Linda Holmes

This year's best picture race doesn't have as clear a frontrunner as it sometimes has. But just as Moonlight came through on a shocker of an evening in 2017, Parasite might pull it off this year.

Review: Showtime's 'Homeland' Launches Final Season

6:25am February 07, 2020

by Eric Deggans

The eighth and final season of the CIA spy series Homeland premieres Sunday with Claire Danes and Mandy Patinkin. One criticism that has dogged Homeland over the years, is how it portrays Muslims

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Arts

Edie Falco Shines As LA's Top Cop In The CBS Drama 'Tommy'

1:36pm February 06, 2020

by David Bianculli

In addition to solving a case each week, Tommy features ongoing story lines involving the police chief's interactions with colleagues and family members. The scripts aren't fantastic — but Falco is.

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World News

An Arabic 'Sesame Street,' For Refugee Children In The Middle East

7:30pm February 05, 2020

by Deborah Amos

Grover speaks Arabic in a new edition of Sesame Street — one aimed at helping refugee children cope with fear and displacement.

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The documentary McMillions explores, using both archival footage and recreations, the story of the fraud uncovered within the McDonald's Monopoly game.

Arts

Crooks Go All-Out To Take Home The Grand Fries In 'McMillions'

1:57pm February 04, 2020

by Linda Holmes

HBO's latest documentary series explores an enormous conspiracy to steal the winning game pieces from McDonald's' best-known promotional game.

A man cowers under a desk, hugging a pillow shaped like a slice of bread, in a scene from a Little Caesars commercial that ran during the 2020 Super Bowl.

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Arts

Super Bowl Ads 2020: Strange, Serious, Smaaht, And So Very Expensive

11:30pm February 02, 2020

by Eric Deggans

Commercials cost as much as $5.6 million per 30 seconds this year. Here's how some of America's largest corporations (and Michael Bloomberg and Donald Trump) spent their money.