Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin are such a dream team that we almost forget how weak this remake of the 1979 George Burns “Going in Style” is. It is always a pleasure to see these old pros, and in this heist story the real theft is every scene they are in …

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The Smurfs are back where they belong, in a fully-animated feature film that wisely gives up on the idea of trying to put them into the real live action world and even more wisely gives up on the brash and unfunny storylines that relied much too heavily on substituting “smurf” for various words. Better than …

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The new four-part series “The Crowd & The Cloud” is a fascinating look at the remarkable advances of “citizen science” and “crowdsourcing.” Waleed Abdalati, former NASA Chief Scientist, says, “For years you’ve watched science on public television. Now you are invited to do science.” The four episodes will debut on public television’s WORLD Channel on …

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Thelma Schoonmaker, winner of three Oscars for editing, and long-time creative partner of Martin Scorsese, has a great interview in Crave. When we edit, I do the first cut, but then after he’s through shooting, we cut everything else together. I mean every single thing. So we talk to each other constantly in the editing …

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Now that we’ve had a few days to think about it, or to catch up with the final episode of “Big Little Lies” On Demand or by DVR, what did you think? There are some good discussions online, especially at Vulture, with Jen Chaney: My enjoyment of this series was never driven by figuring out …

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