Jesse Plemons

Oscar-nominated for all of its key performances, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's compelling and challenging drama casts Joaquin Phoenix as a troubled World War II veteran who falls under the spell of an influential man (the superb Philip Seymour...

Early on in the movie, I muttered to myself “Paul Thomas Anderson is the master.” He showed scenes of waves breaking behind a boat and it mesmerizing. Even shots of people picking lettuce or chopping coconuts off trees were interesting to...

"Breaking Bad" could have mined the familiar territory of rapidly deteriorating relationships all the way to the finish line, but that would have felt too easy and lopsided. Last week, after Skyler channeled Virginia Woolf and made a slow walk into a...

*** (out of four) If you think stupidity is an automatic movie deal-breaker, don't see an action spectacle about aliens attacking military vessels that's thinly based on a board game. Entertainment doesn't always require smarts, though, and the...

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Full hearts, teary eyes: DirecTV announced Thursday that the fifth season of "Friday Night Lights" will be the acclaimed show's last. The fifth and final season will air starting Oct. 27 on DirecTV; that season will then air at some point in 2011 on NBC....

Already shown on DirecTV, the concluding season of the acclaimed football drama is about to begin its NBC run ... but those who don't want to wait any longer can pick up the entire final set of episodes on video. The stories set up the futures of the...

Season premieres of "Friday Night Lights" feel a bit like the first day of school. There's a nervous tentativeness that hangs over the show. New characters are introduced, and one gets the sense that everyone is by and large on......

Over the past few weeks, our forums posters have been nominating their favorite TV shows and programs from the 2009-10 season for the Gold Derby TV Awards. Voters have until Aug. 6 to vote for the final winner in each category. Two freshman shows lead the...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Aug. 1 - 7 in PDF format This week's TV Movies Weekly TV Listings can also be downloaded here WANNA BANANA? National Geographic Channel profiles people for whom primates are......