Here are 26 openings that effortlessly grabbed the viewer’s attention and left them wanting more.

Fool’s Day is a television minefield which always involves a scan of the schedule to try to find the tiresome and obvious wind-up show. No problem, this year, though, I thought. There it ...

A great cold open can get audiences excited from the very first scene, introducing the characters and the plot before the ...

Few actors have become synonymous with a particular genre like Robert De Niro. When we hear the term “mob movie,” we ...

Midway through the first season of “The Studio,” Matt Remick (Seth Rogen), a big wheel in the movie industry, finds himself ...

Some movies should be sure-fire hits. With the right cast and crew working together in perfect harmony, it’s hard not to make ...

Kathryn Hahn and Ike Barinholtz also star in the series about a beleaguered film executive, co-created and directed by Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

S ince the Golden Age of Hollywood and the heyday of film Noir, gangster movies like The Untouchables, Goodfellasand The ...

The scene is filled with movement and ambient noise – people talking, music playing, cars passing – adding ... Thomas Anderson’s storytelling. If Goodfellas is a cautionary tale about ...

The Hollywood icon and Britpop legend met at Bono’s house in 2016 when Noel made the plea that the actor listen to his songs ...

This is an interesting deployment of Rogen’s everyman schtick: He may have the bespoke suits and vintage sports cars of a ...