Joe Capraro

3 weeks ago | looper.com | Joe Capraro

Placing "The Sopranos" at No.3 on our rankings of the best TV shows ever might have prompted as much debate as consensus, but we're not the only ones who hold the six-season organized crime drama in such high regard. It's in IMDB's top 10 audience-rated shows, with an average episode score of 9.2 out of 10, and the twin indices at Rotten Tomatoes are that kind or more so with critics and audiences scoring it at 92% and 98%, respectively.

3 weeks ago | looper.com | Joe Capraro

The Netflix mega-hit series "Cobra Kai" wrapped up in February with a big tournament win for Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), who turned his "The Karate Kid" rival Daniel LaRusso into a friend and co-sensei over the series' six seasons. They were two of five characters to appear in all 65 episodes of "Cobra Kai," and tried to impart the lessons they learned as youngsters to their own karate students.

1 month ago | looper.com | Joe Capraro

Robert De Niro and Robin Williams were mega-stars when "A League of Our Own" director Penny Marshall and Columbia Pictures brought them together for the 1990 medical drama "Awakenings." De Niro earned one of the film's three Oscar nominations as best actor that year, with the other two coming for best picture and best adapted screenplay.

1 month ago | looper.com | Joe Capraro

Remaking a beloved movie classic is a risky proposition for filmmakers. Fans can be fiercely protective of their nostalgic favorites and tend to judge these products harshly. The practice of remaking existing films is older than you might think, dating back to the medium's nascent years in the late 19th Century.

1 month ago | looper.com | Joe Capraro

The Showtime series "Dexter" aired nearly 100 episodes from 2006 through 2013, and the series finale frustrated some fans. Original showrunner Clyde Phillips had left long before then, and he has revealed that he would have ended the series with Dexter being executed for his crimes. He had a chance to make that happen in "Dexter: New Blood," a bonus ninth season in the story of Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) that aired for 10 episodes in 2021 and 2022.