Matt Morava
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Lists
Top 10 Best Movie, TV Dads In a Crisis
Pedro Pascal’s performance in HBO’s “The Last of Us” reminds us of other fictional fathers who rose to the occasion…
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Reviews
Why ‘The Last of Us’ Is the Year’s Best (and Worst) TV Show
I have mixed feelings about HBO’s adaptation of the heralded Naughty Dog video game “The Last of Us.” Some times…
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Contributors
‘Carnival Row’ Goes Communist (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
Try to remember the last “pro-Communist” TV show or movie you watched. You might say, “Matt, it’s all Socialist palaver”…
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Contributors
15 Love Movies. 15 Laws of Love
“Dying is easy. Comedy is hard” — Jack Lemmon And that’s true, but good love movies are as few and…
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Contributors
22 Hot Movies for Cold Winter Nights
The previous installment (“22 Cool Movies for Those Hot Summer Nights“) was designed to cool you down on a hot…
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Opinion
Why ‘North Dallas Forty’ Is the Best Sports Film Ever
“North Dallas Forty” is funny and brilliant, a classic that has held up remarkably well over the years. Every year,…
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Contributors
The 17 Most Anticipated Shows of 2023
The box office might not fully recover from its terrible 2022, but the upcoming year in television offers much more…
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Reviews
The 20 Best TV Shows of 2022
Sometimes it’s hard to fathom how much great television is out there, what with the “Attention Economy” in full bloom.…
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Contributors
‘Better Call Saul’ and the Five Best TV Shows of All Time
A professor of mine once said, “Take the ‘Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey,’ throw in Shakespeare, add maybe a little Chaucer…
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Industry News
The Very Best Streaming TV Shows of 2022 (So Far)
This year got off to a rollicking start as some of the shows delayed or disrupted by COVID-19 (think “The…
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