The Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago Sun-Times columnist and co-host of At the Movies leaves a staggering legacy in print, film, television and on the Internet...

2013

Apr

HBO'S 'VICE': IT'S NOT YOUR FATHER'S '60 MINUTES' By Eric Gould

It's one thing to think and write about terrorism and war, and quite another to walk right up to it and capture it on video...

2013

Apr

COMPLEX.COM: BIANCULLI'S BLOG IS TELEVISION CRITICISM WORTH READING By About TVWW

Guess who's listed on Complex.com's list of "The 25 Best TV Bloggers Right Now"? It's no surprise to fans of TV Worth Watching...

2013

Apr

MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

Marking this week’s 45th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., this weekend’s edition of Moyers & Company has Bill Moyers reexamining the civil rights leader’s other primary battle for equality: economic equality for all, in an “Economic Bill of Rights.” Moyers and his guests, historian Taylor Branch and author and theologian James Cone, discuss King’s vision – and his legacy – while noting the even harsher economic reali

2013

Apr

MILDRED PIERCE By David Bianculli

With a prime-time telecast of this 1945 tearjerker, TCM launches a new month-long Friday night showcase: “A Woman’s World: The Defining Era of Women on Film.” And joining Robert Osborne as host of the screenings of these 17 movies is a woman who helped define an era of women herself: Cher. Tonight’s theme is Motherhood, which explains leading off with Mildred Pierce. Joan Crawford plays the mother, and Ann Blyth the ultimately ungrateful daughter. And stay tuned – f

2013

Apr

MICHAEL FEINSTEIN'S AMERICAN SONGBOOK By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Two new installments of Michael Feinstein’s passionate and intelligent study of popular music are shown tonight, and all I have to do is drop a couple of names, and musical-theater fans will be setting their DVRs to record. In the first hour, Feinstein’s interview subjects, discussing musical theater, include Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury. In the second hour, his guests include Liza Minnelli. Check local listings.

2013

Apr

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Maher’s guests tonight include one whom I expect to be particularly passionate, as well as articulate: The Perfect Storm author Sebastian Unger, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated Restrepo film with war photographer Tim Hetherington. The photographer was killed by mortar fire in Libya two years ago, and Unger has just directed a new documentary, Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington, which premieres on HBO April 18.

2013

Apr

VICE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: “Unfamiliar. Unfiltered. Unafraid.” That’s the slogan for this new HBO series, which takes a high-risk, in-your-face, look-at-me approach to news and social affairs coverage. It’s definitely got the energy of youth, as well as the conviction – and whatever your response to its packaging and attitude, the images and information it provides are worth absorbing. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader.

2013

Apr

BASEBALL: A FILM BY KEN BURNS (INCLUDES THE 10TH INNING) By David Bianculli

Baseball is in the air, and on the sports pages, again, which is the perfect time to revisit Baseball. Ken Burns and company, after producing such superlative and exhaustive works as The Civil War, did it again with this outstanding 1994 documentary series...

2013

Apr

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS By David Bianculli

Just in case you’re determined to watch NBC’s new Hannibal series tonight, which is a new prequel to Silence of the Lambs – you might want to refresh your memories of the original. HBO2 is televising the classic 1991 movie, starring Anthony Hopkins as cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter. Jodie Foster co-stars, in a role that won’t appear in the NBC version.

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