Robert Levin

3 weeks ago | newsday.com | Robert Levin

COMEDY SERIES "Stick"WHERE Apple TV+WHAT IT'S ABOUT With "Stick," Apple TV+ tries to replicate the success of one of its biggest hits, "Ted Lasso," by transferring the action from soccer to golf, and the likable everyman star from Jason Sudeikis to Owen Wilson. Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, once a top pro on the tour and now working as a salesperson and coach years after a mid-tournament meltdown cost him his career.

4 weeks ago | newsday.com | Robert Levin

DOCUMENTARY: "Bono: Stories of Surrender"WHERE Apple TV+WHAT IT'S ABOUT "Bono: Stories of Surrender" documents the U2 frontman's one-man stage show that he performed in 2022 and 2023 to promote his memoir, including a residency at the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan. It builds its arc around those performances, in which Bono takes the audience through some of the formative moments in his life.

1 month ago | newsday.com | Robert Levin

WHAT IT'S ABOUT John Krasinski and Natalie Portman star as siblings in the Apple TV+ action-adventure picture "Fountain of Youth," which is exactly the movie you think it is, no more and no less. Krasinski's an adventurer named Luke Purdue, hired by the billionaire Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson) to find the mythical fountain. Owen's dying of liver cancer, you see, and would love to take just one little sip.

1 month ago | newsday.com | Robert Levin

WHAT IT'S ABOUT J.J. Abrams makes his return to television with "Duster," an eight-part action series that he cocreated with LaToya Morgan ("Shameless"). Set in 1972 in the Southwest, "Duster" stars Rachel Hilson ("This Is Us") as FBI agent Nina Hayes, tasked with taking down the Phoenix-area crime boss Ezra Saxton (Keith David). The key to her mission lies with making an informant out of Saxton's longtime, devoted driver Jim Ellis (Josh Holloway, who starred on Abrams' "Lost").

1 month ago | newsday.com | Robert Levin

Watch Now • 2:18'It transcends to all cultures because it's about love'MOVIE "Nonnas"WHERE NetflixWHAT IT'S ABOUT "Nonnas" tells the story of the Staten Island restaurant Enoteca Maria, which features grandmothers from across cultures cooking their food for patrons on a revolving schedule. This weekend, for example, features grandmothers from Poland, China and Ukraine. Next weekend, the restaurant's calendar has a grandmother from Argentina and one cooking traditional Jewish food.