Entertainment

Microsoft Confirms It’s Working on Xbox Cloud Streaming Device

’s been rumored for years that Microsoft is working on a low-cost, streaming stick-like device that would bring Xbox functionality to TVs without the need for a console. The company...

Roku and Element Team Up on an Outdoor TV for Summer 2022

Just in time for summer, Roku has teamed up with Element to release an outdoor TV, the first-ever to feature the Roku operating system. According to Engadget, the 55-inch TV...

Hisense Debuts a Smart Television with Amazon Fire TV Built-in

TV manufacturer Hisense was one of the major partners for Roku TV, and in recent years has also released models with Google TV, along with its own in-house Vidaa platform....

You Need to Watch These 5 Top War Movies

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Old grainy black and white can’t match the jump-out-of-your-seat action in contemporary movies such as Saving Private Ryan (1998) and 1917 (2019). Nevertheless, post-war pictures movingly depict artists trying...

Watch at Your Peril: The 5 Worst War Movies Ever Made

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Some war films are intentionally awful treatments of armed conflict. Even when the discussion turns to dreadful dramas, there must be some standards. Some war...

Another Game of Thrones Spinoff Is in the Works

HBO showed its final episode of Game of Thrones in May of 2019, but even before that, the premium channel was looking to keep the popular franchise going with spinoffs,...

Regional Sports Networks Left Out of Dish Network-Sinclair Deal

For many years, local sports were one of the things that appeared immune from the forces first of DVRs, and then of cord-cutting. Local sports were popular programming, which was...

Why People Cancel Streaming Subscriptions 

As most people have noticed, there are a lot more streaming services now than there used to be. Back when it was only Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, it was...

Streaming Alert: Yellowstone Set to Return in November

Yellowstone has emerged in recent years as one of the more popular shows on cable TV. Starring Kevin Costner and created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, Yellowstone tells the...

Could Local Sports Go Direct-to-Streaming in 2022?

For all of the popularity of cord-cutting the last few years, one of the things keeping a lot of TV watchers from taking the plunge is the ability to watch...

Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Alludes to an Older Story of Controlling Women Artists

Recent news about Britney Spears’s legal challenge of her father’s control over her estate — a “conservatorship” arrangement which the singer has called “abusive” — brings to mind sculptor Camille Claudel, whose...

With DirecTV Deal Done, Sunday Ticket Bidding May Be Next

AT&T’s long-in-the-works deal to spin off DirecTV into an independent entity finally closed Monday, just as the National Football League (NFL) training camp season got underway. At the same time,...