‘Night Will Fall’ Reveals Untold Stories of Liberated WWII Concentration Camps
It was the movie from 1945 that had barely seen the light of day —until last night. Reels upon reels of raw footage recorded by military and newsreel cinematographers after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces are the basis of “Night Will Fall,” a powerful documentary that HBO ran Monday, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the most notorious of the...
All Together Now: It’s a New Family Comedy on HBO
Indie film fans will fondly remember 2011’s “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” about a 30-year-old slacker played by Jason Segel who lives in his mother’s basement. With millions of people feeling the pinch of a shrunken economy and cutbacks around every corner, the movie resonated on many levels with a core yet small audience. Now its creators, Mark and Jay Duplass have brought that same sort of schlumpy/normcore sensibility to their first...
This Just In: The Newsroom and The Comeback Premiere on HBO
With the departure of “Boardwalk Empire” and Nucky Thompson’s brutal passage into the iconography of a television character for the ages, Sunday nights are about to get very interesting again on HBO. The pay cabler is about to launch the third and final season of its drama “The Newsroom,” followed by the comedy comeback of “The Comeback,” which ran for one season nearly ten years ago. The first episodes of both shows were premiered in...
The Foo Fighters’ Road to Musical Discovery, Sonic Highways
What would a multiple-Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum record-selling band do to mark its 20th year in the music business? Well, put out a new album of course. But if that band is the Foo Fighters, the concept was to create it in an entirely different way. Yes, it involved taking a road trip–not to tour in front of sellout crowds, but to discover the heart and soul of America’s musical identity by exploring eight cities...
Carnage and Courage in HBO’s ‘Terror at the Mall’
We have just commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, yet many people may not realize that September marks another such tragic milestone. It’s been one year since an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group based in Somalia attacked a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, leaving 71 people dead and hundreds wounded. A new documentary airing on HBO and then on CNN, “Terror at the Mall,” takes a harrowing look inside the...
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