Cooking With the Stars has always worked best when a celebrity’s day job creates expectations that immediately become useless in the kitchen. Season 6 found perhaps the perfect example in Mark Charnock. After spending almost three decades playing Emmerdale chef Marlon Dingle, Charnock entered the ITV competition with viewers already familiar with seeing him around…
Cooking With the Stars has always worked best when a celebrity’s day job creates expectations that immediately become useless in the kitchen. Season 6 found perhaps the perfect example in Mark Charnock. After spending almost three decades playing Emmerdale chef Marlon Dingle, Charnock entered the ITV competition with viewers already familiar with seeing him around…
Below Deck Mediterranean Season 11 reaches the end of its long and unusually turbulent charter season in Episode 18, Tick, Tick, Boom. The final guests still need feeding, the crew still has one last docking to complete, and several relationships that have been limping toward the finish line finally collapse once everyone is off duty.…
After nearly two decades of turning Canadian streets, heritage buildings and carefully constructed sets into early 20th-century Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries gives its twentieth season a noticeably different visual identity from the moment William Murdoch appears overseas. Season 20 premiere “The Maltese Falconer” follows Murdoch to Malta, where his reunion with mystery writer Nigella Fletcher develops…
Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother follows Latif, played by Mahershala Ali, through a Houston shaped by grief, faith, family and competing communities. After the loss of his wife, the devout father and former contract killer is left caring for three children while circumstances pull him back toward a life he had hoped…
Murdoch Mysteries begins its twentieth season with William Murdoch farther from Toronto than usual, but one of the show’s longest-running relationships remains noticeably off screen. Julia Ogden does not physically appear in the Season 20 premiere, “The Maltese Falconer,” even though Murdoch makes it clear that his marriage has not ended. Instead, Julia is still…
Murdoch Mysteries opens its milestone twentieth season far from Station House No. 4. Season 20 Episode 1, “The Maltese Falconer,” sends William Murdoch to Malta, where a familiar mystery novelist is facing a grim fate and a supposedly straightforward case quickly becomes entangled with a missing tapestry, an old treasure story and competing claims over…
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother surrounds Mahershala Ali with familiar faces, but the family at the center of Bassam Tariq’s film is just as important as its adversaries. Adia and Jahleel Kamara play the older children of Ali’s Latif, while John Cho and Giancarlo Esposito occupy very different positions in his life. The ensemble…
Cooking With the Stars returns for Season 6 with 12 celebrities facing the unusual challenge of turning professional coaching into something convincing under competition pressure. The opening episode, “Family Favourites,” puts Caroline Quentin, Gladiators star Harry Aikines-Aryeetey and Emmerdale actor Mark Charnock into the first three-way battle, with Emma Willis and Tom Allen overseeing a…
After nearly two decades of turning Canadian streets, heritage buildings and carefully constructed sets into early 20th-century Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries gives its twentieth season a noticeably different visual identity from the moment William Murdoch appears overseas. Season 20 premiere “The Maltese Falconer” follows Murdoch to Malta, where his reunion with mystery writer Nigella Fletcher develops…
Bassam Tariq’s Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother follows Latif, played by Mahershala Ali, through a Houston shaped by grief, faith, family and competing communities. After the loss of his wife, the devout father and former contract killer is left caring for three children while circumstances pull him back toward a life he had hoped…
Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Digger gives Tom Cruise one of the most unusual roles of his career. He plays Digger Rockwell, an enormously powerful oil magnate whose actions help push the world toward an environmental crisis, forcing him into an increasingly desperate attempt to prove that he can also be the man who saves it. Riz…
Tenzing brings the 1953 Everest expedition to the screen through the story of Tenzing Norgay. Jennifer Peedom’s film uses an international production landscape, with Himalayan settlements and snowy climbing terrain contributing different parts of that world. Its locations become easier to follow once the places in the story are separated from the sites where the…
