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Suzanne's creativity is unleashed. (All photos by Jojo Whilden - © 2014 Netflix)

Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ Season 3 (second review)

Faith and friendship

Much of the comedy in this season of Orange Is the New Black comes from mixing up the characters. New, unusual friendships make excellent use of the deep bench of supporting characters, many of whom are outcasts or invisible, or have lost their identity to groupthink.

Paula Berman

Jun 30, 2015 Articles 6 minute read

The start of a beautiful friendship: Pennsatucky (Taryn Manning) and Big Boo (Lea DeLaria). (Photo by JoJo Whilden - © 2015 Netflix)

Netflix’s ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ Season 3

Complicated ladies in a complicated place

Now in its third season, Orange Is the New Black returns to see the ladies of Litchfield remaining resourceful and optimistic about their incarcerated future, while battling with problems both inside and outside of the prison walls.

Jessica Friedman

Jun 23, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

John Huston and Orson Welles (American Film Institute, afi.com)

Orson Welles’s 'The Other Side of the Wind'

The best movie never made?

Orson Welles spent 15 years on a movie he couldn’t complete. The legend is perhaps bigger than the film could have been.

Robert Zaller

Jun 20, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

An unlikely duo: Mirren and Reynolds. (Photo by Robert Viglasky - © 2014 The Weinstein Company.)

Simon Curtis's 'Woman in Gold'

The most brazen theft of them all

Woman in Gold tells one of Hollywood’s favorite stories, justice against the odds. In this case, it happens to be true.

Robert Zaller

May 23, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

The end of 'Mad Men'

The cynical redemption of Don Draper

If the purpose of the retreat is to figure out who you really are, how you feel about that, and how to recognize love, then isn’t it an act of radical honesty and self-acceptance for Don to embrace himself as a person who works best when he spins his dreams into brilliant ad copy?

Paula Berman

May 19, 2015 Articles 6 minute read

On the road to hell with Guy Fieri. (Photo via foodnetwork.com)

Is the Food Network making us fat?

While the Food Network has its share of old-fashioned cooking shows, hosted by pleasant, chatty cooks, each with a personal schtick, the network's dominant subgenres are the cooking competition and the eating travelogue.

Gary L. Day

May 19, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

Godard’s 3D is not like others’: Marie Ruchat in "Goodbye to Language" (© 2014 - Kino Lorber Inc.)

'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' and 'Goodbye to Language'

The 4K redemption

What digital cinema makes possible could not have happened with celluloid, love it as much as we wish. Dr. Caligari and Goodbye to Language show why.

Michael Woods

May 16, 2015 Articles 6 minute read

Hilary Mantel’s ‘Wolf Hall’ by the BBC

A Machiavelli for all seasons

For more than five centuries, Thomas Cromwell was perceived as the evil genius behind the machinations and marriages of England’s Henry VIII. Hilary Mantel’s brilliant novel Wolf Hall enables us to see Henry’s conspiracy-ridden court through Cromwell’s eyes. The BBC’s recent adaptation renders the experience even more compelling.