MOVIE PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This new Netflix movie, basically, is a comic spoof of The Omen – a horror comedy about a guy (Adam Scott) who marries a woman whose six-year-old son may turn out to be the Antichrist. The only real reason to watch is that the woman is played by former Lost star Evangeline Lilly – but Little Evil wouldn’t have been that surprising, or funny, 40 years ago, had it been released on the heels of The Omen. Today, it’s too Little, a

2017

Sep

BEACH PARTY By David Bianculli

TCM is throwing an end of summer beach party, with a night of beach films beginning with 1963’s Beach Party, starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. There’s no Where the Boys Are on board, but at 10 p.m. ET, another Avalon-Funicello pairing, Muscle Beach Party, is televised. It, too, was released in 1963. These movies didn’t take long to make.

2017

Sep

AMERICAN MASTERS: “RICHARD LINKLATER: DREAM IS DESTINY” By David Bianculli

This new installment, about Boyhood director Richard Linklater, portrays him as a persistent but malleable movie individualist – going his own way, and making his own rules, but basically going wherever the flow, and the opportunities, take him. It’s an interesting study, and the contemporaneous interviews, with Linklater and his many devoted stars (Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke among them), are the best part. For full reviews, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Ro

2017

Sep

ROOM 104 By David Bianculli

Written and directed by Dayna Hanson, tonight’s episode of Room 104, called Voyeurs, is the most interesting, and unusual, to date. Starring Dendrie Taylor and Sarah Hay, it’s about a housekeeper who envisions, with an increasingly fervid imagination, the life of the occupant of the room she’s cleaning. It’s a story told entirely in dance – and in time, her solo turn becomes an evocative, emotional duet.

2017

Aug

‘MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED: CHERNOBYL'S DEADLY SECRETS’ REVISITS THE DISASTER By David Hinckley

A new Science Channel exploration doesn’t give us any definitive answers on what caused a Soviet nuclear reactor to explode at Chernobyl in 1986...

2017

Aug

RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN By David Bianculli

Miriam Horn’s book, on which this documentary is based, is subtitled Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland. It looks at a new, rural conservation movement emanating from the heartland, and emerging as, in some cases literally, a grassroots movement.

2017

Aug

MYSTERIES OF THE ABANDONED: “CHERNOBYL’S DEADLY SECRETS” By David Bianculli

Engineer Philip Grossman admits to being borderline obsessed with the disaster at Chernobyl. He’s been there more than just about any other visitor (more than a dozen times), and even got married there. (The bride, I’m guessing, had a certain glow.) Tonight, in this new documentary, he probes what may have caused that site’s horrendous explosion and subsequent contamination – a sobering subject indeed, considering what’s happening right now at a flooded, out-of-cont

2017

Aug

THE GUEST BOOK By David Bianculli

Here’s something I’ve yet to get an answer to: Why has this charming Greg Garcia anthology series, which manages to tell a continuing story at the same time it presents stand-alone episodes, skipped an installment? The Guest Book, on TBS, jumped from episode four to episode six, and tonight shows “Story seven,” with no announced plans to present the missing episode – the one guest starring Jenna Fischer, as a scientist attempting an innovative, immersive form of &ld

2017

Aug

VIXEN: THE MOVIE By David Bianculli

This is an observation, not a recommendation. But it’s worth explaining, because it’s yet another example of the CW pushing in so many chips on its bet regarding populating its schedule with programming from the DC Comics universe. The network already has series based on such DC characters and comics as Arrow, Gotham, Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Now it’s taking a 12-part animated series from the CW Seed, Vixen, and re-editing it into a one-night movie offering, sh

2017

Aug

MR. MERCEDES By David Bianculli

Harry Treadaway and (pictured) Brendan Gleeson, as the killer and retired detective squaring off in this tense new Stephen King thriller, have been riveting. The supporting players, across the board, have added key levels of support, surprise, and creepiness – and Mr. Mercedes, quite quietly, is turning out to be one of the biggest and best dramatic surprises of the summer. It continues tonight, with episode four.

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