ARTS HEADLINES
MOVIES
Love, mortality, and ‘Hope’
In this Norwegian drama, a grim diagnosis brings a couple together even as it threatens to divide them.
DOC TALK
‘Street’ smarts, ‘Towns’ team, Down East dispatches
Documentaries that look at the story of "Sesame Street," visit some of the overlooked communities in the US, and take a deceptively meandering journey with a Maine filmmaker.
Greta Thunberg docuseries amplifies her climate change fight
The three-part series, premiering Thursday on Earth Day, follows the then-16-year-old as she took a gap year from school in 2019 to meet with scientists around the world and spearhead awareness about climate change.
MOVIE REVIEW | ★ ★ ½
So happy ‘Together Together’? Maybe
Ed Helms and Patti Harrison star in this comedy about a surrogate pregnancy that’s even more complicated than you might expect.
Globes group ousts member over his Black Lives Matter email
Philip Berk, a former president of the organization that hosts the Golden Globes, has been dropped from the group’s board after sending an email that called Black Lives Matter a “hate movement.”
TELEVISION
Cristin Milioti and Ray Romano are easy to like in ‘Made for Love’
The two play daughter and father in the show, adapted from Alissa Nutting’s novel, which explores love in a high-tech world
Better late than never: Meklit finally makes her Celebrity Series debut
Grounded at home with her baby son, the California-based musician returned to her solo singer-songwriter roots.
Ted Nugent, who once dismissed COVID-19, sickened by virus
The singer is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.”
MORE ARTS HEADLINES
After a lost summer, Jacob’s Pillow will return for a full season in 2021
The June 30-Aug. 29 season will also offer unprecedented online access to most festival programming.
Dartmouth professor Joshua Bennett awarded two major literary prizes inside of a week
A 2021 Guggenheim fellowship and Whiting Award will allow Bennett to focus on his new book, a cultural history of spoken word poetry.
COMFORT ZONE
Some shows are meant to be binged, not savored
You aren’t encouraged to watch and then think about what you saw; you are meant to press the “Skip Intro” button and keep on moving.
COMFORT ZONE
This musical journey around the globe comes once a month in a box
Berklee grad Safiya Leslie — a singer/songwriter and entrepreneur — is giving world music fans a chance to explore the sounds of a different country each month through her Safiya’s World Music Tour Playlist subscription boxes.
MATTHEW GILBERT | YOUR TV GPS
This week’s TV: The Oscars at long last, Earth Day shows, and a new Ed Helms comedy
Globe critic Matthew Gilbert navigates the week in TV.
Emily Rooney apologizes after accusations of ‘demeaning and racist commentary’ on ‘Beat the Press’ segment
Longtime GBH-TV host Emily Rooney apologized Friday for on-air comments she made in response to concerns raised by filmmakers of color about PBS’s decades-long relationship with documentarian Ken Burns.
With a gallery revamp, Concord Museum summons forgotten voices of 1775
The Battle of Lexington and Concord is reframed to include the contributions of white women and people of color.
TELEVISION
‘Call My Agent’ gets a fifth season — and more
According to Variety, both a movie spinoff of the series AND a fifth season are in development in France.