“Leaving Neverland,” a two-part, four-hour documentary about two survivors of alleged sexual abuse by Michael Jackson, premières on HBO this Sunday. It’s certain to be a bleak day of reckoning for serious fans of Jackson, who has been trailed, even Read More …
Every insomniac has her own late-night Internet-browsing routine. Mine begins with IMDb, where I like to click on the names of character actors and peruse their upcoming projects. (Weirdly soothing to know that Cloris Leachman has a lot going on!) Read More …
In September, 1974, Bob Dylan spent four days in the old Studio A, his favorite recording haunt in Manhattan, and emerged with the greatest, darkest album of his career. It is a ten-song study in romantic devastation, as beautiful as Read More …
The feeling you get when you listen to Robyn—the instant sense of obliteration in the surge of synth and strings—is almost too powerful. I’ve always understood the music of the thirty-nine-year-old Swedish pop star to be something like a club Read More …
There has always been a strong touch of theatre to Bernard-Henri Lévy. Known as B.H.L., the French philosopher, public intellectual, timber-fortune scion, style icon (he is the patron saint of the unbuttoned collar), and occasional punching bag (Garrison Keillor once Read More …
The short documentary series “Braddock, PA,” which was directed by Rosie Haber, and came out last week, on Topic.com, is a portrait of a working-class American town which feels both emblematic and quietly surprising. In four episodes, each of which Read More …
Candidates tote their children to the polls; everybody expects it. It’s the cutest and least objectionable visual agitprop: the politician loves the kids—his own, sure, but also yours—enough to teach them a lesson, firsthand, in civic virtue. We viewers, perhaps Read More …
We may be living in the era of the post-comedy comedy, but Wednesday’s première of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” which is back for its thirteenth season, is a reminder that there’s still a place for comedy comedy—hilarious, grotesque, delirious, Read More …
Click:cnc routing Conan O’Brien occupies the 11 P.M. time slot on TBS and an idiosyncratic position in popular culture. Having begun his hosting career, on NBC’s “Late Night,” in 1993, he is the elder statesman of his genre. Having been Read More …
Click:china tour “The Other Two” (Comedy Central) folds together an inside-show-biz satire and a comedy of thirtysomething malaise. The title characters are the much older siblings of the thirteen-year-old Chase Dreams (Case Walker), who achieves overnight pop stardom on the Read More …