Hank Stuever – Page 2

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Some hits, misses in true-crime mockumentary ‘Trial & Error’

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After HBO and Netflix struck gold with serialized true-crime documentaries ("The Jinx" and "Making a Murderer"), a flood of similar projects followed, in which cold cases and suspiciously prosecuted crimes...

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June 5, 2018 at 3:39 p.m.

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June 5, 2018 at 5:52 p.m.

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June 5, 2018 at 10:19 p.m.

In other hands (such as Bravo's or Lifetime's), the seven-episode HBO miniseries "Big Little Lies" would seem like one more needless, farcical ascent to higher income brackets to scrutinize the...

FX’s ‘Legion’ is intriguing, but do we need more characters who are always seeing things?

June 6, 2018 at 1:09 a.m.

Either I'm imagining things, or our television characters are suffering from a serious hallucination epidemic. Show after show is filled with visions, horrific flashbacks and ominous flash-forwards. What protagonist these...

Are ’24: Legacy’ and ‘Homeland’ really worth the added anxiety right now?

June 6, 2018 at 2:28 a.m.

"Legacy" is a telling choice of subtitle for Fox's latest summoning of its hit "24" franchise. No matter when or how often the network brings back the frantic, counterterrorism action...

‘Riverdale’ review: This isn’t the Archie you grew up with

June 6, 2018 at 4:35 a.m.

If you look back at the 75-year history of comic-book teenager Archie Andrews and his pals in idyllic Riverdale, what stands out most is the malleability of the brand. Superheroes...

PBS’ ‘Victoria’ extravagantly portrays another young queen, but she’s a bit of a bore

June 6, 2018 at 8:21 a.m.

Young queens - think of them as a way to get your mind off old presidents. "Victoria," premiering Sunday on PBS' "Masterpiece," stars Jenna Coleman as the teenager who in...

‘The Good Fight,’ CBS’ ‘Good Wife’ spinoff, gets ready for the Trump years

June 6, 2018 at 9:55 a.m.

"The Good Fight," the spinoff drama from CBS' much-loved "The Good Wife," was shooting its pilot episode on Election Night. Christine Baranski, returning in her role as attorney Diane Lockhart,...

In Netflix’s perfect revival of ‘One Day at a Time,’ there’s hope for the future of sitcoms

June 6, 2018 at 11:11 a.m.

Well, they only had to remake a jillion TV shows from yesteryear to finally get one exactly, perfectly right. Not only is Netflix's reimagined "One Day at a Time" a...

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