A movie about a high school golf team made up of Mexican-American teenagers in the 1950s creates expectations in the viewer. There will be sunlit greens (writer/director Julio Quintana has worked with Terrence Malick), condescension and blatant bigotry, setbacks, supportive wives and girlfriends, comfortably nostalgic ’50s music, doubting family members, …

Bill Bradley won two championships with the New York Knicks. He won gold on the US Olympic basketball team. He went to Princeton and then, as a Rhodes Scholar, to Oxford. He represented New Jersey in the US Senate for three terms. He ran for President. He hosts a radio show. …

“Alien” famously told us that in space no one can hear you scream. “I.S.S.,” which takes place in the US/Russia International Space Station, shows us that it may be more terrifying to consider whether in space someone can overhear your whisper.   It is an efficient thrill ride, running about 90 …

CBS was so nervous about the first episode of “All in the Family,” it ran what today we might call a trigger warning, saying that the show “seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices, and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show—in …

The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to (1) get kids to identify with the characters and (2) get parents to buy toys, t-shirts, books, hoodies, underwear, toothbrushes, birthday party decorations, watches, and so many more toys. It is exceptionally skillful at building enough tension before …

Director Matthew López makes an impressive feature debut with “Red, White & Royal Blue,” a love story that skillfully blends the familiar beats of a classic movie romance with the distinctive details of two of the world’s most public young men trying to keep their relationship private. Adapted from Casey McQuiston’s best-selling …

We first see Helen (Ellie Kemper) sitting alone at a party. All around her, people are talking, drinking, laughing, and dancing. She does not seem to notice anyone and no one notices her. She pulls out a piece of paper to re-read her list of goals for an upcoming hiking …

It is quieter at San Diego Comic-Con this year. The SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes mean that the headline-making events in the cavernous Hall H, the one that people line up the day before to make sure they get to see, are all canceled. Press events for upcoming series “Twisted Metal” …

In “Champions,” Kaitlin Olson performs Alex, the sister of a younger man with Down Syndrome. Woody Harrelson performs Marcus, a temperamental basketball coach sentenced to work with the staff. Alex just isn’t practically as messy as Olson’s best-known roles: on “Hacks,” combating dysfunction and substance abuse because the daughter of …