Tim Riley

Any visitors to New York’s Time Square and the Broadway Theatre district are just a stone’s throw from the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood that stretches from 34th to 59th Streets and from Eighth Avenue to the Hudson River.

More than a dozen years ago, an anthology franchise was launched with “The Purge,” a dystopian action film set in the future when a titular annual event allowed all crime to be legal for a 12-hour period.

There is no shortage of true crime documentaries on Netflix. The genre seems to be one of their specialties. Now along comes “A Toxic Love Story” about a love triangle with a surfeit of twists and turns.

Word of mouth can boost a television series, easily overlooked after its initial release, to achieve a must-see status. Think of such shows as the surreal “Twin Peaks” and the spoofing in “Mystery Science Theater 3000.”

From filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, comes a new chapter in the “Turning Point” series in “Generation 9/11,” a Netflix documentary exploring how a single day shaped the next generation.

The “Fast and Furious” film series, centered on action thrills with fast cars, started a quarter-century ago and shows no signs yet of slowing down and until the next movie comes around the plan right now at Universal Studios Hollywood is a thrill ride.

During the 1970's for a six-season run, “The Rockford Files” was a popular detective drama series starring James Garner as Jim Rockford, a sarcastic private investigator who served time in San Quentin due to a wrongful conviction.

Brad Pitt has met his match in a starring role shared with a German Shepherd in “Heart of the Beast,” a touching story that can easily be summed up as an emotionally realistic saga of how loyalty and love between man and canine underpins a mutual desire for survival.

During the 1970’s for a six-season run, “The Rockford Files” was a popular detective drama series starring James Garner as Jim Rockford, a sarcastic private investigator who served time in San Quentin due to a wrongful conviction.

“Reacher,” the Amazon Prime action series now in its fourth season, has taken its most important series regular outside of the hulking tower of the titular character (Alan Ritchson) to launch a spin-off series with “Neagley.”