Great Performances: Macbeth

In this Great Performances production adapted by Rupert Goold from his 2008 theatrical staging, William Shakespeare’s Macbeth becomes an unnerving film noir, its story of power-lust, murder and guilt accentuated…

60 Minutes: Sabotaging the System

While we all shudder at the prospect of terrorists obtaining a tiny amount of weapons-grade plutonium, this startling 60 Minutes report brought home the very real harm a savvy hacker…

Modern Family

In this droll comedy about a multi-generational family, the patriarch, Jay Pritchett, is a middle-aged, white businessman now married to Gloria, a Colombian bombshell half his age. Gloria’s pre-teen son,…

60 Minutes: Lifeline

The phrase “health care crisis in America” is repeated so often, analyzed from so many perspectives, that it begins to lose meaning and significance. 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley and…

Onion News Network

News parody is nothing new in electronic media. The irreverent “Weekend Update” has been a staple of Saturday Night Live since its debut in 1975, and mock news is the…

30 Rock

The old adage that we shouldn’t want to see how things are made may hold for the sausage factory, but peeking into the backstage of a late-night TV show sure…

CNN Presents: God’s Warriors

It is hardly a secret that religious fundamentalism has become a major political force throughout the world. Too often, however, any real knowledge of the phenomenon ends when that simple…

A Room Nearby

“It seems to be evident that in our culture of prosperity, anywhere we might be, there will always be someone lonely in a room nearby,” Paul Fierlinger observes in A…

Bus 174

On the surface, Bus 174 is a documentary using real-time media footage to explore events surrounding Sandro do Nascimento’s hijacking of a public bus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, taking…

Chesapeake Bay Pollution Investigation

This investigation by WBAL-TV writer/reporter John Sherman still continues. The story, centered on spillage of raw sewage into creeks and streams feeding into the Chesapeake Bay, was an eye-opener for…