Note: “Classic” in this sense is defined as within the last 30 years. Hate to tell you, fellow millennials, but our television has officially gone retro. [Editor’s Note: The below piece was originally published on March 24, 2020. It has been expanded as of March 15, 2021.] All in the Family (1971-1979) This Norman Lear-created series remains one of the most provocative shows from the the 1970s. The series starred Carroll O’Connor as outspoken bigot Archie Bunker ad how he deals with the changing world around him, particularly his feminist daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and her husband (Rob Reiner)....

Pressing play on a song can transport you back in time and rustle up memories from your favorite movies, or maybe even a personal experience. We might not always notice, but musical soundtracks are a major part in the evolution of cinema. Although soundtracks tend to differ from film scores in that they’re usually inspired by a film vs. written specifically for it, but sometimes the movie soundtrack is just as big (if not bigger) than the film itself....

And, against all odds, television — most of it made in the pre-COVID-19 era, only to debut in a landscape where the world had irreparably changed — delivered an opportunity to escape and relate. Long derided as the pedestrian sibling of the entertainment landscape, it was the medium’s very quality of immediate accessibility that allowed it to shine at a time when nothing was certain and nothing made sense. Below, in alphabetical order, are the shows — not limited series, chill out chess freaks who are already scrolling for “The Queen’s Gambit” — that debuted in this brave new world....

“I will forever be grateful to FX for allowing me to tell stories the way I see the world, and want the world to be seen,” Adlon said in a statement to Deadline. “Making this show has been film school for me. I bow down to my crew and my cast. And I can’t wait for people to discover and re-discover ‘Better Things.’ This is gonna be a wrap on Sam Fox (for now)....

In a new interview with Men’s Health, “Indiana Jones 5” star Boyd Holbrook made it clear that the excitement from fans is justified. The actor said he recently watched some footage from the film with Mangold and was thrilled with what he saw. “I can assure you that it’s going to be badass,” Holbrook said. “I got to see like half an hour of it when I went to L.A., and I saw Jim....

The undisputed victor of the Venice-Telluride dash is “TÁR,” which arrived in the Rockies from the Lido riding the waves of rapturous praise. The Telluride crowd confirmed that director Todd Field’s first movie in 15 years is a riveting cinematic journey into the downfall of a brilliant-but-troubled conductor whose career goes into a tailspin after a series of scandals. With Cate Blanchett’s fiery performance as celebrated composer Lydia Tár at its center, the movie barrels through nearly three hours of inquiries into personal and professional behavior, separating art from the artist, and social media snafus....

“I loved him from from ‘Billy on the Street,’” Stoller said during an interview for IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “And then we screened the first episode of that show in a movie theater and every time he was on screen, the audience exploded with laughter. And I was like, ‘Oh, this guy is like a movie star, which was really exciting.’” Soon after Stoller approach Eichner to see if he’d be willing to collaborate on something bigger....