Maybe the summer heat is making me grumpy. Or maybe it’s NBC’s fault for saving their worst shows for summer. After laughing my way through the first couple of episodes of its EMT-telepath drama The Listener, I was hoping for something better from Sunday’s two-episode premiere of Merlin. From the opening scene of the show, [...]

Earlier this month, NPR’s Linda Holmes wrote an open letter to Pixar (“Dear Pixar, From All The Girls With Band-Aids On Their Knees”) beseeching them to create a film for girls. News of this has generated a flood of positive and negative responses. And while I am not one to get swept up in the [...]