To be fair, Poker Face isn’t literally a remake. But as no less a resource than the Columbophile Blog has pointed out, “Poker Face could be a Columbo reboot in all but name.” Both Johnson and Lyonne ...

Lieutenant Columbo, played with average Joe charm and unshowy, easy-to-miss dexterity by Peter Falk, is more than meets the eye — to the bad guys, not us, because we know how things will turn out.

“Poker Face,” a new series starring Natasha Lyonne and created by Rian Johnson of “Knives Out”/“Glass Onion” fame, is a work of pure pleasure, a comedy-mystery with roots that reach down half a ...

(*) In this case, the victim is also a Very Special Guest Star, played indelibly for a few minutes by the great Linda Lavin. What is she doing solving crimes in the first place? Well, nobody really ...

The Emmy-winning actor, who played America’s favorite police detective on TV for more than three decades, shared a lot of personality traits with Lieutenant Columbo. That’s no surprise because Peter ...

If you're unfamiliar with Columbo, the classic mystery show had a simple premise. While most shows in that genre were focused on unraveling the clues to determine who had committed a murder, Columbo ...