Netflix’s limited series The Residence flips the White House on its side—and its head—with a juicy comedic whodunnit set not in the Oval Office, but in the West Wing’s lesser-seen cousin: the Executive Residence. Forget policy bri...

The King of Diamonds chronicles the audacious jewel-theft spree that silenced Dallas’s elite from the late 1950s into the 1960s. The mastermind—nicknamed the “King of Diamonds”—slipped into lavish homes during social events or late-night hou...

In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Lisa and Tandy offer their takes on two dramatic limited series that push the envelope in that they used unconventional story-telling techniques.The first, Adolescence<...

 In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Reba and Tandy tackle two films with actors who have demonstrated themselves to be durable stars both on the large and small screens. And both are led by strong women who not only starred i...

What if someone told you that, in spite of never having been in a movie of any kind, you would be co-starring with acting heavyweights such as Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, and Isabella Rossellini in a film that would be nomina...

 In this episode, Reba and Tandy review two Netflix films that both touch on matters of national security.The first, Interceptor, was produced from an original screenplay by Australians Matthe...

 When it comes to capturing the attention of television audiences — whether they’re bingeing corseted costume dramas or corporate legal sizzlers — the actress Christine Baranski is the veritable gift that keeps on giving....

 Starting with this episode of The Hollywood Beat, I’m beginning an ongoing series of book reviews interspersed with author interviews along with Dallas, Texas, librarian Pamela Skjolsvik.Pamela and I met some years...

Westerns. The public has an insatiable appetite for them, and the television industry has served up a plethora of them.These are but a few: The Lone Ranger. Wagon Train. Bonanza. Gunsmoke. The Rifleman. Have Gun, Will Travel and Rawh...

 In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Reba and Tandy discuss two films that both are sequels: Dune Part Two and Gladiator II. But of these two films, only one – Dune Part...

 In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Tandy Culpepper welcomes Critics Choice Association member Lisa Johnson Mandell to begin a regular series of TV reviews. Lisa has been an entertainment film and TV critic for some 25 years....

In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Reba and Tandy  look at two films that have nothing in common other than that they both skirt the fringes of politics, and both are rooted in fact. The first film is the origin s...

In this episode, Reba and Tandy discuss two films starring two much-lauded actresses. One film makes a strong statement about the way society objectifies women before tossing them aside as they age. The other film  is based on a real wo...

In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Tandy and Reba look at two films — one, the stark, dramatic story of a Polish immigrant who survived a concentration camp, the other, the often madcap of a stripper of Russian descent who befriends the ...

In this episode of The Hollywood Beat, Tandy and Reba look at two low-budget, indy films – one set entirely in a prison, the other briefly in New York, but chiefly in Poland.A Real Pain stars Kieran Culkin and J...

Over the course of their careers, Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper have been  internationally-syndicated entertainment journalists. This review of movies offers Reba and Tandy’s take on two films:Queer w...

 In this episode, entertainment journalist Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper discuss the films Conclave and Maria.Conclave is the Focus Features film based on Robert Harris’s 2016 novel by the same name. The screenplay wa...

Over the course of their careers, Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper have been  internationally-syndicated entertainment journalists.  In this episode, they discuss the films Conclave and Maria.Conclave is the Focus F...

Dune. The Fall Guy. Matrix Resurrections. Those are just three of the many movies that benefited from the filmmaking skills of aerial cinematographer Dylan Goss. Those breathtaking shots that give moviegoer...

There are climate and environmental activists. And then there are people like Craig Rosebraugh. At the turn of the century, the Portland, Oregon, native was involved in an animal rights movement called the Animal Liberation Front which morph...

In the nineties and early aughts, Steve Kmetko was arguably the preeminent entertainment reporter in Hollywood. Upon arriving in Los Angeles in the eighties, he began work as a general assignment reporter at KNXT-TV, now KCBS-TV, before beco...

Country music singer-songwriter James Robert Webb is a man on the rise. In 2022 Nashville's Music Row Magazine named him Country Breakout Awards' Independent Artist of the Year. The following year, Webb was a New Faces nominee by the Texas R...

 She’s the daughter of a renowned Broadway composer and lyricist and the mother of two grown children, but now, at long last, singer-songwriter Susannah B is coming into her own.She’s busy working on POV, her first album sinc...

William Keck is a veteran entertainment journalist who has seen it all – not necessarily by invitation – and who has interviewed many of the denizens of Hollywood — again, not always by invitation.Confused? Don’t be. Two words:...

Before Laurence Leamer became a best-selling author of nonfiction books, he wore many hats in widely divergent locales. Journalist in Iowa and at Newsweek. A coal mine in West Virginia. Peace Corps in Nepal. Covering a...