Stephen Root

The past is a puzzle that resurfaces in bits and pieces for Robert Redford in "The Company You Keep." The political potboiler's producer, director and star still leans left, but in telling this fable about 1970s radicals grown older and wiser, Redford's...

The weekend highlights include the fall finales for two of TV's best dramas. “The Walking Dead” wraps up the audacious first half of its season at 9 p.m. Sunday on AMC. The next eight episodes start in February. So far, the season has been...

So many razor-edged bad people swagger about Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire that, even having shed one of its primary POV characters, it is instantly, retoxifyingly addictive as the epic criminal sojourn of Nucky Thompson and Atlantic City...

"Ordinary men avoid trouble, extraordinary men turn it to their advantage." - Gaston Means Nucky Thompson has ever been the disciplined emperor with an attention to detail, but this week we found him forgetting what day it was, blowing off the Pope,...

In the most recent episode of "Justified," Raylan and Quarles have a showdown in a very busy, very fun hour....

Sunday will be packed with new drama, including "Mad Men" and "The Killing" on AMC, "Game of Thrones" on HBO and "Harry's Law" on NBC. "Once Upon a Time" offers the first for four new episodes at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC. On "The Good Wife," at 9 p.m....

My hatred for J. Edgar Hoover stems from something different than reasons the Kennedy’s or others might. I was 13, and obsessed with collecting signed first edition books. At a library in Encinitas, they were selling one of Richard Nixon and a...

It's remarkable how much "Fringe" has grown in the last four years. It started off as your run-of-the-mill procedural, though not exactly run-of-the-mill. Fringe Division investigated transit buses encased in amber, planes crashed by crazy werewolf-like...

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH In the furor over how and when Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) will return to the Fringe universe, the show continues the strange journey of its fourth season tonight in an episode called “And Those We've...

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After last week's borderline classic, "Louie" was back tonight with an episode that felt rather formless. I get that the series doesn't tell traditional, three-act stories, but it usually has vignettes that take the form of clever little tales that......

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles -- known for its outdoor offerings -- will be heading indoors with a production of "Much Ado About Nothing" starring Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin. Music by Lyle Lovett......