Tonight’s the latest vote-off episode, after last night’s Lennon-McCartney theme-night performances. So now the question is, Who gets voted off? And don’t worry: There will be an answer. Let it be.

2013

Mar

APOCALYPSE NOW By David Bianculli

Martin Sheen looks almost impossibly young in this 1979 Francis Ford Coppola epic – but what amazes me the most, watching it now, is that I have to keep reminding myself that none of the explosions, and no shots of the fleet of helicopters, were accomplished with computer trickery. Yes, the opening credits sequence may have been accomplished with a brilliantly realized scale model – but much of what you see is full-scale. And fully amazing.

2013

Mar

COMPULSION By David Bianculli

This 1959 movie dramatizes the infamous Leopold and Loeb trial, with Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman portraying the young men accused of murder as a “thrill crime” with no motive other than for the sheer thrill of it. Orson Welles shines as their attorney, with one of the best closing arguments ever performed in a film.

2013

Mar

GLEE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s musical assignment for the New Directions kids: guilty pleasures, songs and performers they enjoy even though they’re embarrassed to admit it. And yes, you guessed it: the Spice Girls are amply represented.

2013

Mar

WHY 'THE AMERICANS' IS WORKING — VERY WELL By Eric Gould

When it was announced, The Americans not only seemed anachronistic, but potentially dull...but add this series to FX's growing list of don't-miss shows...

2013

Mar

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

This particular night's theme is music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney - which, in the past, hasn't delivered as strongly it should have. But perhaps this year's singers, and their song choices and arrangements, will be different. But when will George Harrison get some love from this show?

2013

Mar

FOR ALL MANKIND By David Bianculli

Beautiful images, taken from all of the NASA Apollo space missions, are collected in this 1989 documentary. It’s a small step for a man – to reach the remote and press “record.”

2013

Mar

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

A series of dangerous moves and counter-moves puts both the KGB and FBI on high alert – but FBI agent Stan (Noah Emmerich) is distracted by something else. Specifically, by Nina (Annet Mahendru), his Soviet mole, to whom he’s become dangerously attracted.

2013

Mar

PSYCH By David Bianculli

Maggie Lawson, as Juliet, gets to play opposite some very interesting guest stars in this series – guest stars who play her relatives. Playing her con-man father, in a previous episode, was William Shatner. Tonight we meet her stepdad, Lloyd, played by Jeffrey Tambor. And he doesn’t exactly play well with others – at least not with Henry, the show’s resident old crank, played by Corbin Bernsen.

2013

Mar

FORBIDDEN PLANET By David Bianculli

This landmark 1956 science fiction movie is best known, perhaps, for introducing the iconic Robby the Robot, and perhaps for spinning the plot of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest into a futuristic adventure film. But in addition to all that, I like it for two other reliable pleasures: watching Leslie Nielsen play it straight as the romantic lead, and watching Anne Francis as… well, I could just stop the sentence after “watching Anne Francis.”

Posts 1781-1790 of 2272

178 179 180 181 182

New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up

The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation

Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'

Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver

'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action

How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth

In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self

Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption