Showtime’s The Affair begins on a summer morning in Manhattan, as teacher and first-time novelist Noah Solloway (Dominic West), his wife, Helen (Maura Tierney), and their four children get ready to spend the summer at her parents’ Long Island mansion…
Since The X-Files ended its successful nine year run back in 2002, science fiction fans have been looking for a suitable replacement. Series such as Journeyman, a reboot of Bionic Woman, and New Amsterdam have all failed to fill the…
After the dull Chéri and the uneven Tamara Drewe, the generally reliable Stephen Frears appears to be in something of a slump. Unfortunately, his frivolous, superficial adaptation of Lay the Favorite, Beth Raymer’s memoir about her path from stripper to…