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Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
Jun
8
PREMIUM RUSH By David Bianculli
 
 
David Koepp directed and co-wrote this 2012 action drama, which casts Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger in Manhattan, who gets entrusted with a package that begins a deadly chase around the city. Think of trying to stage a French Connection-style chase scene with one of the vehicles on two wheels, and you’ll understand the kinetic excitement Koepp was after.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
8
IN THE FLESH By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 3 of 3. This is the conclusion of this new three-part Brtish import about zombie rehab. Is it possible? And, if so, will uninfected survivors trust the cure? If so, it’s time for a zombie jamboree. If not…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
8
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN By David Bianculli
 
 
This is one of two recent Snow White movies, both of which featured a big-name Evil Queen (Charlize Theron in this one, Julia Roberts in the other) and did relatively poorly at the box office. This one, from 2012, stars Twilight leading lady Kristen Stewart as Snow White, and more inventive special effects and costumes than the other – but that’s about it. Except that the Huntsman in the title is played by Chris Hemsworth, who also plays one of The Avengers. I better mention him &nda
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
8
TNT ROLLS OUT ANOTHER AMPERSAND-CENTRIC SERIES, 'KING & MAXWELL' By Ed Bark
 
 
Ampersands have been good business for TNT, so the third time around doesn’t even have to be a charm...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO By David Bianculli
 
 
Noomi Rapace, who stars in this original Swedish movie version of the international bestselling thriller, is shown here in even finer form, in an extended version that occupies all of Sundance’s prime time schedule tonight.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
THE MALTESE FALCON By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s lineup is a salute to writer Dashiell Hammett, whom the evening’s host, Eddie Muller, pronounces as Dash-EEL, which he insists is correct. (Great. One more name I’ve been mispronouncing all my life, along with what I used to call J.D. Salinger’s Franny and ZOO-ey. Sigh.) It starts off with the movie The Maltese Falcon, but not the familiar Humphrey Bogart vehicle. This one, from a decade earlier (1931, to be precise), stars Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade. Other fil
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
IN THE FLESH By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 2 of 3. Can zombies be rehabilitated? That’s the odd twist behind this twisted little British import, which imagines a zombie outbreak after the discovery of an alleged cure.  How trustworthy is it? And how trusting will humans be, with “former” zombies in their midst? After all, if ex-zombies fall off the wagon, they’re liable to take some people with them – which really bites.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
This week’s lineup includes some out-of-the-mainstream voices, including now-maverick filmmaker Tom Shadyac and comic Dana Gould. Bill Maher hosts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
MARON By David Bianculli
 
 
Danny Trejo, from Sons of Anarchy and some familiar recent “grindhouse” movies, guest stars as a man Marc Maron meets in AA, and decides to sponsor. Cut to: a guy on the floor, bound and bloody, with a gag in his mouth and a nervous Maron standing over him, trying to intercede.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
7
FEMALE-FOCUSED WIGS LAUNCHES NEW SERIES, 'PALOMA' By Christy Slewinski
 
 
Paloma, a web-based drama written and directed by Julia Stiles, is the latest offering from WIGS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley