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Episode 2 of this season’s Hard Knocks moves at a breezy pace, with the black & silver gridironers having comical moments intertwined with the serious business of winning

Scored by an ominous piano/violin concerto, each episode of Succession cold starts with the juxtaposition of contemporary Manhattan (the best NY skyline cinematography since 1987’s Working Girl) and

A few months prior, I was asked by our editor-in-chief to write an article about this year’s potential candidates for HBO’s Hard Knocks.  As a Raiders fan, I

Zeitgeist. It’s a word that critics often use to access whether or not a story captured the spirit of the times. During a 2015 interview with the Financial

James R. Hansen, an Auburn Professor of History, wrote the only authorized biography on Neil Armstrong. This serves as the source material for Damien Chazelle’s First Man, a

  The characters of Big Little Lies cross the Bixby Creek Bridge during the program’s opening sequence and intermittently throughout nearly every episode.  On a lesser show, the

Is it truly the end of an era? I viewed the first episode of Game of Thrones in Japan, for I was still on active duty and this

HBOWatch is the premier unofficial site for all HBO content. Nothing of historical or current Home Box Office news slips under the radar of our staff.  Yet, readers

When our fearless leader and editor-in-chief of HBOWatch.com, asked the writing staff to review a theatrical film being premiered on Home Box Office during April, my decision wasn’t

In two months, the National Football League will conduct its 100th season and 84th player draft. Teams with the most abysmal records last year will have first look

Recently, while googling the latest entertainment news, I was fortunate to have stumbled upon an article announcing that Alamo Drafthouse Theaters would screen the first two episodes of

Making a film is a synthesis of art and science, that when done correctly yields a beautiful mistake. Not in the sense of error, but in the sense

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner have professionally split, and many reviewers speculate that Camping is an allegory of their relationship. The truth behind this conjecture is unknown, yet

Much of the action in Camping’s fifth episode transpired off of the camping grounds, and away from nature in the confinement of rural civilization.  Yet, the most poignant

Fly fishing can serve as a soothing activity.  The ambiance of flowing water, wind rustling trees and birds chirping, is a natural high for fishermen while they cast