The Studio is Hollywood’s funhouse mirror — and it’s hilarious Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg—alongside a creative team clearly steeped in the absurdities of showbiz—aim…
High concept. It’s a compound adjective used to describe certain film and TV projects, and it’s defined as “a simple, easily grasped idea or premise…
Friendships between women have been said to be qualitatively different from friendships between men. This episode of The Hollywood Beat looks at female friendships in…
To say that Donald L. Miller is a brilliant academic is the understatement of all understatements. The John Henry McCracken Professor emeritus at Pennsylvania’s Lafayette…
The streaming service Hulu has dropped a new sitcom, Mid-Century Modern, that more than one pundit has compared to The Golden Girls. The show starred…
Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper talk movies again, and these two offerings have nothing in common other than the fact that both films’ casts are…
In this episode of The Hollywood Beat’s Take on TV, Lisa and Tandy offer their takes on two drama limited series that push the envelope…
The modern comedy series has become very much a hybrid half-hour of television – at least in the case of two streaming programs equal parts…
Pope Francis died Monday, April 21, one day after Easter Sunday. He had made a triumphant return to a public appearance on a balcony where…
In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Reba and Tandy tackle two films with actors who have demonstrated themselves to be durable stars both on…
