Alyssa Rosenberg

“GLOW” is a period comedy about female wrestlers; watching it will make you smarter

June 29, 2017 at 5:10 p.m.

There are a lot of things I loved about "GLOW," a Netflix series about a fledgling women's professional wrestling league so glorious that I watched it all in two sittings.

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Grappling with “Harry Potter” on the series’ 20th anniversary

June 29, 2017 at 4:40 p.m.

Pop culture anniversaries are thick on the ground these days, but one we marked this week stands out. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published 20 years ago, which...

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The strangeness of “Twin Peaks: The Return” makes it the perfect show for 2017

June 22, 2017 at 5:35 p.m.

"Twin Peaks" was among the most notable of the shows I missed in a largely TV-less childhood, and though I've since watched David Lynch and Mark Frost's series, it hadn't...

Police respond to Monday night's bombing at Manchester Arena in Manchester England, where a suicide bomber killed 22 people after an Ariana Grande concert.

Rosenberg: Why terrorists attack entertainment venues

May 24, 2017 at 3:36 p.m.

When a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the Manchester Arena on Monday evening, he joined a particularly insidious tradition of attacks on entertainment spaces.

Frances Stroh's "Beer Money" IS a sharply observed memoir of what it's like to be shaped - more misshaped - by privilege, and what it's like to have your privilege stripped away. MUST CREDIT: HarperCollins

“Beer Money”: What happens when privilege eases your life — and then ruins it

May 12, 2017 at 6:50 a.m.

For one family, money was a cushion -- that prevented them from learning life's most important lessons.

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Commentary: 20 years after Ellen took a risk by coming out, Tom Holland can do drag and be a superhero

May 10, 2017 at 6:17 p.m.

American society, law and culture have changed enormously in the 19 years since I started the ninth grade and joined my high school's Gay-Straight Alliance. Back then, the meetings were...

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“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” is one of the funniest, most important shows on TV

April 12, 2017 at 4:16 p.m.

A series that takes for granted that both the police and the public have an interest in improving the profession is a rare thing.

Joss Whedon’s “Batgirl” movie reveals a weakness in a key argument for diversity

April 12, 2017 at 1:19 p.m.

Hollywood being what it is, it's inevitable that some male director will argue that his life experience better prepares him for a job than one of his female competitors.

Hollywood needs a 10-year moratorium on stories about Barack Obama

March 23, 2017 at 4:40 p.m.

The entertainment industry gives the go-ahead to a lot of frustrating projects, but rarely has my head descended to my desk as rapidly as when I learned that in addition...

Rebooting “The Matrix” is an even worse idea than Hollywood’s usual self-cannibalism

March 22, 2017 at 12:16 p.m.

The utter creative bankruptcy represented by the news that Warner Brothers is developing a reboot of "The Matrix," the wildly original 1999 blockbuster film about the last stand in a...

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