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“Seeing what a good father you are is what made me fall in love with you,” Sabrina tells Jimmy toward the end of…

This week’s question comes from senior writer Jason Heller and is inspired by The Grand Budapest Hotel’s Zubrowka:…

House, “Three Stories” (season one, episode 21; originally aired 5/17/2005)

Stanley Rubin, a writer and producer whose career in movies and TV spanned 50 years, has died at the age of 96.…

It was Root who, a few episodes back, teased Finch by suggesting that he must have had a helper, or helpers, before…

In recent years, MTV has used its mandate to educate young viewers about the difficulties faced by teen mothers and…

FX makes two kinds of live-action comedies: Wild, experimental shows in which hot-dog comedians challenge the limits…

Google “fat movies” and the result is a list of films that throw a thin, big-name actor into a fat suit, play the…

The commercials for the new Cosmos that thread through this episode tend to put a viewer in a cosmic state of mind,…

Inspired by this weekend’s Oscar ceremony, this week’s question comes from The A.V. Club’s film editor, A.A. Dowd: Wh…

Tonight’s episode represents the beginning of the post-Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe era of Parks And Recreation, and…

Radio broadcaster and TV host Jim Lange has died, at 81. Lange began his radio career while still a teenager in…

Cyrus has fallen: The actor Roger Hill, who played the messianic gang leader in Walter Hill’s 1979 action classic The…

Mel Brooks used to say of the late Sid Caesar that he was powerful enough to “kill a Buick” with a single punch to…

It seems likely that Legit co-creator and star Jim Jefferies would have come up with a show in which he played an…

The script for this episode feels like the work of someone who saw the Halle Berry movie The Call and thought, not…

There are shows you get frustrated with and have arguments with, and then there are shows that just get fed up with.…

A lot of stuff happens this week, and not all of it is compelling on the same level. It may even be that too much…

Animation director Teruaki “Jimmy” Murakami has died at the age of 80. Born in San Jose, California, Murakami was 8…

Checking in on NBC’s prime time coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics for the second time, I’m pleased to report that…