Summer used to be a slow season for TV, but now the streamers keep us tied to our couches even when we should be out enjoying the weather. Here are the debut series you won’t want to miss this month. Anna Pigeon Brat Pack-adjacent Lea Thompson (Back to the Future, Some Kind of Wonderful) directs…

A pickleball movie where John McEnroe and Andy Roddick play themselves? Aces! Although, to be clear, there are not many aces in pickleball since you serve underhand. At centre court of this weekend’s movie releases sits The Dink, a new sports comedy streaming on Apple TV (so you’ll have to indulge in “hot popcorn” on…

I remember watching an interview with actor Sam Neill, who has died aged 78, saying “Good screen acting hints at secrets. At other lives underneath the veneer.” At the time, I wondered what were these secrets Neill was referring to. I just had to look at the vast body of Neill’s work, the characters he…

While the FIFA World Cup and Wimbledon will be television staples for the first half of July, we have eight promising new series that will keep us company long after the athletes have taken their last shot. Here are our picks of the new scripted shows worth your time.   The Five-Star Weekend American author…

“Say we get into the cage and through the security doors and down the elevator we can’t move and past the guards with the guns and into the vault we can’t open,” posits Carl Reiner’s character Saul Bloom in the 2001 heist movie Ocean’s Eleven. “Say we do all that, we’re just supposed to walk…

You Know You’re An Icon If… Every late-night talk show host and Saturday Night Live alum you meet cites you as a comedic influence; you were part of the original 1972 Toronto Godspell cast; you hold a Tony Award record for most nominations (as a featured actress in a musical) and are tied for most…