DAVID BIANCULLI

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2012
Sep
17
 
 
There's no curling up with a documentary about the Civil War and its death toll. But this riveting retelling of events will make you watch and give you new understanding for the struggle and the progress that grew out of that suffering...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
On this day in 1966, CBS premiered the espionage series Mission: Impossible...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: As we pick up the story, Brennan (Emily Deschanel has been on the run for three months, hiding from everyone including Booth (David Boreanaz) — and she’s blonde. But before the season-opening hour is up, all that will change.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
The blind auditions continue. NBC has stretched them out to almost absurd lengths this year — but why not? They’re the best part of the show — as well as the secret weapon in maintaining supremacy over Fox’s The X Factor.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
Part 1 of 6. Encore launches its miniseries revival with one of the best: NBC’s 1980 masterpiece starring Richard Chamberlain, based on the novel by James Clavell. Toshiro Mifune and Yoko Shimada co-star, in this fascinating, refreshingly intelligent story of a 17th-century British sea captain whose ship is beached off the Japanese coast — and who finds himself at the mercy of an utterly alien society and its seemingly unfathomable rulers. Watch the first 20 minutes, and I guara
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The biggest name behind the scenes here, J.J. Abrams, generates the biggest hopes for this series, but its pilot is much less than a Lost-like slam dunk. For one thing, Tracy Spiridakos’ teen heroine is an arrow-wielding toughie straight from The Hunger Games. For another, even in a show with such a high concept at its core — the power goes off, and never comes back on — the notes of incredulity are deafening. When she goes to find her uncle in the bl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
One of my son Mark’s favorite spider-web movies — and, I have to admit, one of mine, too. And it’s amazing, after I introduce my film history students to the choreographed insanity of Busby Berkeley, how many of them mention the drug-trip bowling-alley sequence in Lebowski as a modern nod to something they didn’t know existed. Dude!
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
When watching an intentionally serialized piece of art, is it better to delay or to demand? To wait, or not to wait?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
16
 
 
Bill Hader continues to show why he's one of the top SNL guns; last night he played a PTSD war veteran bringing his talents, such as they are, to a puppet class lead by Family Guy creator and guest host Seth MacFarlane...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
16
 
 
Even after such a hard news week, 60 Minutes makes room for some lighter fare — but almost always, it carries its own weight. Tonight, Anderson Cooper profiles and interviews Adele, who explains just what she didn’t do, and won’t do, during her ascent to musical stardom.