Nina Metz

The gang at "The Bear," from left: Edwin Lee Gibson, Lionel Boyce, Liza Colón-Zayas, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Matty Matheson.

My worst moment: ‘The Bear’ star Liza Colón-Zayas and the bloody stage mishap

July 11, 2023 at 5:30 a.m.

In its first season, "The Bear" generated all kinds of sweaty, shouty drama inside a Chicago Italian beef sandwich shop. One of the kitchen's key figures is longtime veteran Tina,...

‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Season 2 review: The ongoing misadventures of a lawyer neither noble nor sleazy, but somewhere in between

July 6, 2023 at 9:17 a.m.

Lawyers may get a bad rap, but they're all that stands between a person accused and the powers-that-be, and "The Lincoln Lawyer," back for a second season on Netflix, makes...

Téa Leoni (right) as the secretary of State and Željko Ivanek the chief of staff in the CBS political drama "Madam Secretary."

My worst moment: When eljko Ivanek alarmed Mary Tyler Moore — multiple times

July 4, 2023 at 8:47 p.m.

With the latest spinoff, the bad guy on AMC's "The Walking Dead: Dead City" is no longer Jeffrey Dean Morgan's once-notorious Negan, but eljko Ivanek, who plays the Croat. "I've...

Idris Elba stars as a passenger whose flight from Dubai to London is anything but uneventful in the seven-part series "Hijack."

‘Hijack’ review: Idris Elba is cool as a cucumber, at gunpoint, in the unfriendly skies

June 29, 2023 at 9:13 a.m.

The airborne thriller "Hijack" on Apple TV+ unfolds in real(ish) time when a seven-hour flight from Dubai to London is hijacked. One of the passengers is played by Idris Elba,...

From left: Rock Hudson and Lee Garlington in Puerto Vallarta in 1963 as seen in the documentary "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed."

‘Rock Hudson: All that Heaven Allowed’ review: The double life of a Hollywood star

June 28, 2023 at 9:25 a.m.

A documentary about one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 20th century, "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed" (riffing on the title of Hudson's 1955 film "All That Heaven Allows")...

June Diane Raphael (right) co-hosts a movie podcast with her husband Paul Scheer called "How Did This Get Made."

My worst moment: The time June Diane Raphael was cocktail party entertainment for the super rich

June 27, 2023 at 5:30 a.m.

In the dark comedy "Based on a True Story" on Peacock, a married couple launches a true crime podcast featuring an actual serial killer. Their primary competition is an established...

From left: Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White in "The Bear."

‘The Bear’ review: In Season 2, the Italian beef sandwich joint becomes a fine dining establishment. What could go wrong?

June 22, 2023 at 11:53 a.m.

Last we saw "The Bear's" sad-eyed proprietor, one Carmen "Carmy" Berzatto, he'd discovered loads of cash his brother had squirreled away before taking his own life. And there was a...

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