Fred Schruers

“I skipped adolescence,” writes Cameron Crowe in his memoir “The Uncool," which became an immediate bestseller this week, “I’d traded it for a backstage pass.”  As a longtime Crowe stan and friend, I’ll confess he had me at hello, but anyone who still reads books could happily

Let's start with the fundamentals.  Tonight on Fox at 5 p.m. Pacific time, comes Game 5 of the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series, all knotted up at 2-2 in the seven-game series.   With the Dodgers a bit bleary from traveling East (with more flight time to come this

The American people “want some pomp and circumstance,”  says one wised-up character in Season 3, Episode 3 of “The Diplomat,”  the current Netlfix hit most popular among the streaming  culturati. The rest of that thought reverberates more relevantly than perhaps any utterance  in the entire enterprise. It's a

If Gary Oldman ever held doubts about the legitimacy of small-screen work for an actor who won an Oscar playing Winston Churchill  (“Darkest Hour,” 2017), said doubts have been thoroughly washed away by the popular and critical success of “Slow Horses,”  which airs the fourth  of six episodes tomorrow on

"Gun is American poem!” shouts the deranged Russian poet in a certain madcap `70s comedy whose title eludes me, and that’s one angle from which to regard Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling action/comedy/satire epic, “One Battle After Another”. You too may be sprawling in your seat