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Adding to Ken Burns' legacy of classy historical fare for PBS, "The U.S. and the Holocaust" is documentary filmmaking with a purpose, a three-night production that directly links undercurrents of American society that influenced the decades featured to lingering strains of White supremacy and anti-Semitism. It's fascinating as history, but sobering as current events.

Hulu returns to the dystopic world of Gilead for a fifth season, plus more "Love Is Blind" on Netflix, more "Clerks" from filmmaker Kevin Smith and new albums from Blackpink and Noah Cyrus.

Ever since Disney released the first look for its 2023 live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid," the internet has been sodden with wave after wave of racist critics complaining that Ariel, the completely fictional underwater fish woman, shouldn't be Black. Hashtags like #notmyariel are bouncing around social media, and YouTube hid the dislike counter on the official video after it was bombarded with racist comments and more than 1.5 million […]

Prosecutor Casey Novak has a strong track record. Over numerous seasons of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," the tough and persistent assistant district attorney convicts scores of sex offenders and delivers justice to their victims.

Naomi Ackie shines as Whitney Houston in the upcoming biopic "I Wanna Dance with Somebody."

Zac Efron has heard about speculation that he altered his face with plastic surgery, but he says that's not close to the truth.

The gap between a star performance and the movie containing it has seldom been wider than in "Blonde," which features Ana de Armas stunningly capturing the look and essence of Marilyn Monroe in the service of a film that's pretentious, heavy handed and lengthy to the point of exhaustion. Netflix will surely get its money's worth attention-wise thanks in part to its restrictive NC-17 rating, but the film's merits burn […]

Although "inspired by true events," "The Woman King" clearly isn't tethered to them, using the underlying story of 19th-century female warriors in an African kingdom as the jumping-off point for a rousing action vehicle, augmented by plenty of melodrama. That combination yields a strong showcase for the stars, featuring a cast and backdrop that serves to refresh its old-school formula.

The legacy of Queen Elizabeth II will not only live in history books, but in the many films and television series that have been inspired by her life story.