Author: Dee

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Sometimes, when we experience something that we know to be wrong, alarms go off in our heads, our bodies recoil,

Readers familiar with Daphne Du Maurier’s novels know that their magic lies not only in the ambiguity of their plots but in the keen first-person subjectivity of her

When I was a kid growing up in one of the East Coast’s inner cities, the music that spoke to me and to my classmates was rap. The

Writer/director Richard Shepard has described Tokyo Project as a labor of love, and it shows in every frame. During the filming of HBO’s Girls, the crew traveled to

To say that the genre of feature films based on video games has a problematic history would be an understatement. It is filled with colossal critical failures, including

Real life husband and wife Ed and Elaine Warren became famous for investigating high-profile cases of the paranormal, most notably The Amityville case. In their 2013 film, The

In DC Comics canon, the Suicide Squad (in its most famous iteration) is a team of villains gathered by the government to undertake secret and dangerous missions. Unlike

After making a name for themselves on the Fox sketch comedy series Mad TV, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele broke out on their own in the critically acclaimed

Much like Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln, HBO’s adaptation of the Broadway hit play All the Way focuses on the role a President plays in the advancement and

  Going into Episode 6 of Vinyl, I had already decided that I liked the series (If you need to catch up, here is the previous episode). In

One of the most pleasant surprises in 2015 was the release of Spy, a Paul Feig comedy starring Melissa McCarthy. The two had collaborated before on 2011’s Bridesmaids,

It’s hard to top the opening scene of Vinyl‘s pilot episode. It captured the reason the show exists: the visceral love people can feel for music. If you

For years, we at HBOWatch have speculated on the possibility of seeing our favorite channel adapt a comic book property (remember Watchmen is in, Monster is out). As

I’ve been a fan of John Oliver since his days at The Bugle podcast, in which he discussed political topics with partner Andy Zaltzman. I am also a

Though Get Hard represents the directorial debut of director Etan Cohen, it reflects the sensibilities of producer Adam McKay, who directed previous Will Ferrell films, including Anchorman, Talladega