This week on the showbiz segment of my show, guest critic Jim Batts and I reviewed the new movies “The Mummy,” “I, Daniel Blake,” “My Cousin Rachel,” and “It Comes At Night.” I also shared my belated review of “Wonder Woman” and some other showbiz news. Listen to our conversation here.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” (it came out in the US a week later), so I invited Slate pop critic Jack Hamilton to join me in discussing that landmark album. I asked him: Why do you say it “was a musical masterpiece that […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Max and I reviewed the new movies “Baywatch” and “Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” plus a couple of streaming TV recommendations and news about sequels you probably won’t watch. Listen to our conversation here.
Andy Dehnart, who writes about reality TV shows on his site, Reality Blurred, was back on my show to talk the renewal of “The Amazing Race,” the upcoming finale of “Survivor: Game Changers,” changes coming to “Shark Tank,” a spinoff of “The Bachelor,” and some suggestions for reality shows to watch this summer. Listen to […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, guest critic Jim Batts and I reviewed “Alien: Covenant,” “Chuck,” “Everything Everything,” and “The Lovers” — plus some other movie/showbiz news. Listen to our conversation here.
Here’s my conversation with quantum physicist Jim Al-Khalili about his book, “Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life.” Among the questions I asked him: Can we say definitively that there’s no other life in our solar system other than on Earth? What are the odds that life elsewhere has evolved faster […]