I don’t know why it happens, I just know that it does: In tonight’s episode, for the first time all season, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) and Boyd (Walton Goggins) share the same scene. Stand by, sports fans. When these two actors are together, the results are never less than championship level.

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CABARET By David Bianculli

Whatever your opinion of the recent Les Miserables movie, or even of the less recent Chicago, neither of those musical films would exist without this groundbreaking predecessor, Bob Fosse’s brilliant 1972 big-screen version of Cabaret. Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey are brilliant, as is the way this entire film is edited and presented. Oh, and the music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb? More brilliance. One verse alone, from the title song, proves that point: “Start by admitting fr

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LET THERE BE DARK: CRAIG FERGUSON CALLS FAST AUDIBLE FOR POST-SUPER BOWL SPECIAL By David Bianculli

When half the power went out during Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVII, the 34-minute interruption gave Craig Ferguson’s team the opportunity, and inspiration, to improvise a new cold open for that night’s post-game Late Late Show special…

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SUPER BOWL KISS-OFF By Christy Slewinski

Nevermind the GoDaddy lip lock between model Bar Refaeli and techie "Walter." Super Bowl viewers in select TV markets in Texas, Oklahoma and Montana got to see an equally awkward kiss, courtesy of Will Ferrell...

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MEDICAL DRAMA 'MONDAY MORNINGS' PUTS DOCS UNDER THE EXAM ROOM GLARE By Eric Gould

The latest David E. Kelley offering premiering on TNT shows us cases gone wrong getting dissected in M&M conferences - short for Morbidity and Mortality...

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BONNIE AND CLYDE By David Bianculli

Every year, the impending arrival of the Academy Awards telecasts leads to the “Month of Oscars” tradition on TCM, where award-winning movies, in various categories, are crammed into the prime-time schedule (and beyond) all month long. Tonight, the festivities begin with one of the Sixties movies that helped changed the direction of cinema. Warren Beatty’s 1967 movie upped the ante for stylized violence, and anti-hero dramas, and idiosyncratic filmmaking, all in one stylish bur

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MEA MAXIMA CULPA: SILENCE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD By David Bianculli

Alex Gibney’s documentary literally gives voice to the deaf, retracing and recounting the story of deaf boys who were sexually abused while in the care of and supervision of a Catholic priest – and following their story to the highest levels of the Vatican. The tone of Mea Maxima Culpa is ominous, but never slips into melodrama – and the reporting appears to be thorough, fair and careful throughout.

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DALLAS By David Bianculli

Remember, as Ed Bark recently reminded us, this is one of the episodes in which Larry Hagman records his final scenes as J.R. Ewing. It’s a legacy, and TV character icon, that stretches back 35 years. Attention should be paid.

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COOL HAND LUKE By David Bianculli

What we have here is failure… of nothing. Everything in this 1967 movie is just right, from Strother Martin’s classic “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” line to Paul Newman’s complicated, yet thoroughly charming, performance as a rebellious convict.

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MONDAY MORNINGS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: David E. Kelley and co-executive producer Bill D’Elia have been making TV a long time, and most of it has been terrific: Ally McBeal, The Practice, Boston Legal, Harry’s Law. They even worked together on Kelley’s Chicago Hope, a medical series that premiered the same week as ER – and here they are again, almost 20 years later, with a new medical series, this one based on a novel by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The standout in the series pilot is Alfred Molina, as th

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