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2013
Dec
3
 
 
Tonight, Mindy celebrates Christmas by throwing a party. There are a lot of Christmas parties being thrown on television this week. No sense waiting until the last minute, I guess.  And at this party, for Mindy, it’s all about the music. And the mistletoe.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
3
 
 
This is the penultimate episode of this latest season of a very violent series – a series that already has claimed the life of Clay, one of its central characters from the start. And as the word penultimate suggests, the action, and the body count, isn’t through yet.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
2
 
 
After last week’s poetry episode, How I Met Your Mother is back to playing with the prose. And tonight, Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) comes up with a questionable inspiration for the rehearsal dinner: laser tag.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
2
 
 
It was only a handful of days ago that I complained about TV Christmas specials being televised too soon in the season. I should complain again, tonight, but I can’t. Not when any telecast of TV’s all-time best holiday special, now nearly 50 years old, appears in prime time on a broadcast network. So welcome back, Charlie Brown – and all the great music, and the inspirational themes, and one of the best family offerings television has ever produced.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
2
 
 
Made in 1994, this Coen Brothers film is so clever, in both plot and visuals, that it’s one of those movies that captures, reflects and shares the sheer joy of filmmaking. Tim Robbins stars as a simple toy-company employee who’s taken in by a ruthless corporate executive (Paul Newman). It’s one of the movies highlighted in tonight’s latest installment of TCM’s The Story of Film – An Odyssey.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
2
 
 
MIDSEASON FINALE: This series will return after the holidays – but for right now, this concluding part of a two-parter leaves viewers with a surprisingly, disturbingly violent story line, in which Red (James Spader) is trapped inside his see-through cage, watching his vengeful enemy taking aim at those on the outside.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
2
 
 
This is the penultimate episode of this imported documentary series, which really is worth setting your recorders to catch. It’s so intelligent, insightful and informative that every episode leaves you enthused about films in general, and the movies discussed in particular. And TCM shows some of the films tonight as bonus treats, including Quentin Tarantino’s breakthrough film, 1992’s Reservoir Dogs (pictured), at 4:15 a.m. ET. So record and enjoy, despite some absurdly dull an
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
2
 
 
Will Ferrell appeared on the Bismarck, North Dakota KXMB newscast as guest anchor Ron Burgundy, his character from 2004’s Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
1
 
 
The video done for Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” was done by Israeli video artist Vania Heymann, who started out with a number of shorts going viral on YouTube and this beer commercial for Maccabee Beer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Dec
1
 
 
What a smart, savvy show this is. Last week, it managed to put Alicia and Will (Juliana Margulies, Josh Charles) in the same courtroom, arguing different sides of the same case. And tonight, it finds a way to put two powerful mothers in the same room, in a rare and much-anticipated meeting between Alicia’s mother (played by Stockard Channing) and Peter’s mother (played by Mary Beith Peil). All that, and the newest cast member addition as well: Jason O’Mara (pictured), who made