Reba Merrill & Tandy Culpepper Review The Accountant 2 & The Ballad Of Wallis Island
Movie Review: The Ballad of Wallis Island By Tandy Culpepper and Reba Merrill Written by and starring Tim Key and Tom Basden, The Ballad of…
Reba Merrill & Tandy Culpepper Review The Films Smile 2 & Summer Of 69
Movie Review: Smile 2 Written and Directed by Parker Finn Reviewed by Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper Following the runaway success of 2022’s Smile, which…
Tandy Culpepper & Lisa Johnson Mandell Review Two Divergent TV Shows In Severance & The White Lotus
TV Review: The White Lotus, Season 3 serves up intrigue in Thailand, With More Blood Than Ever Mike White’s biting satirical dramedy The White Lotus…
Lisa Johnson Mandell & Tandy Culpepper Review 2 TV Comedies: The Bear and The Studio
The Studio is Hollywood’s funhouse mirror — and it’s hilarious Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg—alongside a creative team clearly steeped in the absurdities of showbiz—aim…
Lisa Johnson Mandell & Tandy Culpepper’s Take On 2 TV Political Thrillers: Zero Day & Paradise
ZERO DAY Review, PARADISE Review — Tandy vs Lisa on The Hollywood Beat Lisa Johnson Mandell In their Paradise review and Zero Day review, Tandy…
Reba Merrill & Tandy Culpepper Review Two Wildly Different Films About Female Friendships: The Madcap Comedy One of Them Days And The Elegiac Drama The Room Next Door
Friendships between women have been said to be qualitatively different from friendships between men. This episode of The Hollywood Beat looks at female friendships in…
Tandy Culpepper Interviews Historian Donald L. Miller About His Book “Masters of the Air” And The Limited Series from Which That Best Seller Was Adapted
To say that Donald L. Miller is a brilliant academic is the understatement of all understatements. The John Henry McCracken Professor emeritus at Pennsylvania’s Lafayette…
Lisa Johnson Mandell & Tandy Culpepper review Hulu’s New Gay-Themed Sitcom Mid-Century Modern
The streaming service Hulu has dropped a new sitcom, Mid-Century Modern, that more than one pundit has compared to The Golden Girls. The show starred…
Reba Merrill & Tandy Culpepper’s Take On Two Wildly Different Films: One, A Bullet-Riddled Thriller, Havoc, the Other A Charm-Infused Whodunnit, Thelma: Think Agatha Christie On A Scooter.
Reba Merrill and Tandy Culpepper talk movies again, and these two offerings have nothing in common other than the fact that both films’ casts are…
Lisa Johnson Mandell and Tandy Culpepper Offer Their Take On 2 Limited Series: Disclaimer and Adolescence
In this episode of The Hollywood Beat’s Take on TV, Lisa and Tandy offer their takes on two drama limited series that push the envelope…