AMANDA GLAM

Distractavision I don’t know about you, but I am never more thankful for my excessive cable bill than during a hurricane warning.

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By AMANDA GLAM Columnist

September 8, 2023 at 1:43 p.m.


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This is the time of year when I would normally write my column on the Emmy awards which are normally held in September. However due to strikes by the Screen Actors Guild and the Writers Guild of America, the Emmys have been postponed to January 15, 2024 on FOX. That …

By AMANDA GLAM Columnist |

August 28, 2023 at 2:20 p.m.

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Oppenheimer (R)

By AMANDA GLAM Columnist |

August 10, 2023 at 4:04 p.m.

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Looking at the eye-popping numbers from the July 21 weekend box office, there is a very good chance that like Amanda, you spent some time at the movies. Barbie and Oppenheimer, or “Barbenheimer” as the phenom has been dubbed, raked in $235.5 million at the domestic box office, enough to …

By AMANDA GLAM Columnist |

July 27, 2023 at 2:02 p.m.

I Stream, You Stream! Unless...

If you are of a certain age, you probably remember complaining to your parents, “Nothing’s on TV.” Now, even with the writers’ strike stopping production on talk shows and scripted series, with just one paid streaming service, you likely have more shows available than you have time to watch.
BY AMANDA GLAM | July 3, 2023 at 12:35 p.m.

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Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3: If you know Amanda, and by now you should, you know that I don’t particularly care for superhero movies. I tend to abandon a series after the first movie when things get too explosiony...
BY AMANDA GLAM [email protected] | June 2, 2023 at 11:37 a.m.

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This is the time of year when most of your favorite network series have wrapped up or are just about done, and wiith no new talk shows to take up my time, this is what I’m watching and looking forward to...
BY AMANDA [email protected] | May 18, 2023 at 5:20 p.m.

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Tiny Beautiful Things, Single Drunk Female, The Goldbergs, Young Sheldon, The Last Thing He Told Me, andFirefly Lane...
BY AMANDA [email protected] | May 8, 2023 at 11:35 a.m.

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Air (R) Some people are calling Air (R) “this generation’s Jerry Maguire.” It’s not. Yes, they’re both about sports and they’re both smart and funny, but no movie is Jerry Maguire.  My beau was right when he compared it to another great sports movie, Moneyball, and I agree.  Both movies …
BY AMANDA [email protected] | April 20, 2023 at 4:47 p.m.

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The Whale (R) and Babylon (R)
BY AMANDA [email protected] | April 7, 2023 at 11:22 a.m.

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Comfort TV At this point just about everyone has been knocked down by COVID, the flu or various respiratory illnesses, at least once. And while your partner, children, friends etc. may try to take care of you and comfort you, we know that true comfort comes from our TV screen...
BY AMANDA [email protected] | March 30, 2023 at 10:13 a.m.

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You might not remember much about last year’s Academy Awards other than that infamous slap. Oy, the slap. This year’s host, Jimmy Kimmel’s main job will be to guide the ceremony to a slap-free conclusion in under four hours...

By AMANDA GLAM Columnist |

March 16, 2023 at 5:03 p.m.

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Formula 1 – Drive to Survive (Netflix), Shrinking (AppleTV+), Accused (FOX), Will Trent (ABC), Night Court (NBC), What We Do in the Shadows (FX/HULU) and Cunk on Earth (Netflix)...
BY AMANDA [email protected] | February 24, 2023 at 2:30 p.m.

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Formula 1 – Drive to Survive (Netflix), Shrinking (AppleTV+), Accused (FOX), Will Trent (ABC), Night Court (NBC), What We Do in the Shadows (FX/HULU) and Cunk on Earth (Netflix)...
BY AMANDA [email protected] | February 24, 2023 at 2:15 p.m.

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Amanda's reviews for "She Said" and "Women Talking"...
BY AMANDA [email protected] | February 10, 2023 at 1:58 p.m.