Mike Hale New York Times

After the Season 5 finale, Game of Thrones comes across as a wildly popular show that seems to have lost its way

Gemma Atwal's documentary Marathon Boy, a film-festival favorite that will be shown on HBO on Thursday night, is a wrenching experience largely because it uses the moods and methods of true crime and pulp fiction to tell a story that is nominally about poverty, politics and the toxic mingling of celebrity culture and national pride in modern India.

A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 30. 11:05 P.M. |Bright Spots and Last Thoughts on the ShowDave Itzkoff: So that's the show, Mike. "Modern Family" the big winner here, naturally, and so were Jimmy Fallon and Ricky Gervais. Any other bright spots for you?Mike Hale: HBO will get the...

"The first 360-degree view of terrorism" - that's the promise the writer Fareed Zakaria makes at the beginning of "Terror in Mumbai," a new HBO documentary about the attacks in that city last November that left more than 170 people dead.

After the Season 5 finale, Game of Thrones comes across as a wildly popular show that seems to have lost its way

Gemma Atwal's documentary Marathon Boy, a film-festival favorite that will be shown on HBO on Thursday night, is a wrenching experience largely because it uses the moods and methods of true crime and pulp fiction to tell a story that is nominally about poverty, politics and the toxic mingling of celebrity culture and national pride in modern India.

A tsunami emanating from the massive earthquake that hit Japan on Friday sent seven-foot waves into the Hawaiian islands, but appeared to have caused no major damage in Hawaii or along the West Coast. Peter Carlisle, the mayor of Honolulu, said Friday that the threat had subsided substantially and that coastal highways had reopened on the island of...

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presented the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards on August 30. 11:05 P.M. |Bright Spots and Last Thoughts on the ShowDave Itzkoff: So that's the show, Mike. "Modern Family" the big winner here, naturally, and so were Jimmy Fallon and Ricky Gervais. Any other bright spots for you?Mike Hale: HBO will get the...

"The first 360-degree view of terrorism" - that's the promise the writer Fareed Zakaria makes at the beginning of "Terror in Mumbai," a new HBO documentary about the attacks in that city last November that left more than 170 people dead.