Season 2 continues to demonstrate strength, by deepening as well as redefining its characters as well as their relationships. Tonight, Hannah (Lena Dunham) has a conversation with her new boyfriend, Sandy (Donald Glover), that makes each of them question, and defend, why they’re together. It’s a great scene, and a memorable conversation – and just one of many in tonight’s installment.

2013

Jan

FOX BRINGS HOME THE BACON – AS IN KEVIN – IN ‘THE FOLLOWING’ By David Bianculli

Kevin Bacon has been on TV before, from soap operas as a young actor to telemovies as a mature one – but Fox’s The Following is his first turn as a series lead. And he’s excellent…

2013

Jan

LOLITA By David Bianculli

This 1961 Stanley Kubrick movie was as brave as it was outrageous to film at the time – and even though some of the darkest undercurrents of Vladimir Nabokov’s once-banned satirical novel had to be skirted over (so to speak) at the time, Kubrick still managed to say a lot, and visually suggest a lot, with his wry examination of a proper gentleman’s improper obsession with a young girl. James Mason and Sue Lyon play those roles, respectively, and Peter Sellers all but steals the

2013

Jan

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS By David Bianculli

Making her third appearance on this fine concert series, Norah Jones returns to perform songs from Little Broken Hearts, her impressively eclectic album produced by Danger Mouse. Also on the bill tonight, making her first appearance: the similarly jazz-flavored, yet wide-ranging, Kat Edmonson. Check local listings.

2013

Jan

RIPPER STREET By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Given BBC America’s unprecedented success with Copper, the period detective series concocted by Tom Fontana, it’s no surprise the channel would present other shows in a similar vein – especially one originating from abroad, and written by someone other than an American. Ripper Street gets its name because of its setting: the rough East End neighborhood recently terrorized by Jack the Ripper. He’s nowhere to be found when this series begins, but his elusiv

2013

Jan

AN IDIOT ABROAD 3 By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais’ finest and most unassuming comic foil, is back for another season of this giddily entertaining travel series. This time Gervais sends the dour but occasionally incisive Pilkington to retrace the voyage of Marco Polo, with actor Warwick Davis along for the trip. It’s even funnier than it sounds. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.

2013

Jan

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Jennifer Lawrence is the guest host of this new episode, hot on the heels of franchise hits in both the X-Men and Hunger Games franchises, not to mention Silver Linings Playbook. Also on tonight’s show is another hot sensation, the night’s musical guests: The Lumineers.

2013

Jan

MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate will either reform the filibuster rules, or keep them as they are for another two years – which is why, this weekend, Bill Moyers is speaking with Larry Cohen, president of the Communication Workers of America, and a man campaigning, through the Democracy Initiative, for filibuster reform. Moyers & Company airs from Friday to Sunday on local public TV stations; to find it in your local area, click the BillMoyers.com website.

2013

Jan

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? By David Bianculli

One of my favorite “spider-web movies”: This 2000 Coen Brothers film always gives me new things to notice, and laugh about, and treasure. Sometimes I’ll pay particular attention to the music, or the story as it parallels The Odyssey, or the wild images. And sometimes I’ll just hone in on a performance. This time, I think I’ll simply delight in the core trio of chain-gang goofballs, played so cartoonishly, and so brilliantly, by George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim

2013

Jan

LAUREL AND HARDY MARATHON By David Bianculli

It’s a prime-time Laurel and Hardy marathon tonight on TCM, and in this batch of film shorts, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy can be heard as well as seen. The action starts with 1931’s Chickens Come Home (pictured), and is followed by several other films from the same period.

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