‘Lion’ Is National Geographic’s Breathtaking, Irresistible Wildlife Epic
There are wildlife documentaries that educate you about animals, and then there are wildlife documentaries that make you emotionally invest in one. National Geographic’s Lion does the latter — spectacularly. The four-part series follows Kio, a lion born in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, from a vulnerable little cub into a powerful young male fighting for the chance to establish his own kingdom. Filmed over more than four years and nearly 1,400...
Locations Take Center Stage at 13th Annual LMGI Awards as ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Marty Supreme’ and ‘Pluribus’ Take Top Honors
There was a certain irony to Fritz Coleman hosting the 13th annual Location Managers Guild International Awards Saturday night at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Coleman spent 40 years working at the same location — NBC Los Angeles — but on this night, the former KNBC weatherman was celebrating the people whose job it is to constantly search for the next great place to tell a story. Before a receptive crowd of roughly...
‘Lanterns’ Brings Green Lantern Back to Earth — And Finds the Humanity Beneath the Ring
For a superhero franchise that has spent decades reaching for the stars, Lanterns takes a surprisingly down-to-earth approach. HBO Max’s new series, which premiered August 16, drops Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart into the dusty expanses of Nebraska, where a murder mystery gives way to something even more compelling: a deeply human story about two very different men learning how to work together. The series comes from...
FX’s The Shards Turns Bret Easton Ellis’ 1981 L.A. Into a Gorgeous, Sinister Fever Dream
There may be no better television playground for Ryan Murphy than the Los Angeles of Bret Easton Ellis’ imagination: beautiful people, beautiful houses, beautiful clothes — and something deeply rotten lurking just beneath the surface. The Shards, FX’s lavish adaptation of Ellis’ semi-autobiographical 2023 novel, is a deliciously dark marriage of coming-of-age drama, erotic thriller, murder mystery and L.A. time capsule. Set in 1981,...
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Finale: The Dance of the Dragons Catches Fire
To bring HoD’s third season to a conclusion, “The Treasons of Tumbleton” finally delivers the kind of bloody, operatic spectacle that HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel has been promising since its premiere. The episode turns the Targaryen civil war into something considerably more horrifying than a family squabble over a crown. By the time the smoke clears, alliances have collapsed and virtually every major player has taken another...
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