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2013
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The HBO series has a sophomore season better than the first, and as it approaches the season finale, the weekly interludes that eavesdrop on the characters' innermost thoughts have become its signature trademark...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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This is the TV premiere of the newest reboot of this durable Marvel Comics superhero – portrayed, in this 2012 version, by Andrew Garfield. This movie goes back to the comic’s very origins, with early villain The Lizard (Rhys Ifans), with blonde girlfriend Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), and with Peter Parker’s elder guardians, Aunt May and Uncle Ben – played by acting heavyweights Sally Field and Martin Sheen.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Carl Reiner directed this 1979 comedy with equal emphasis on sight gags and witty dialogue – typical of the man who learned his craft on Your Show of Shows and stretched it on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Steve Martin, in the title role, commits totally to the silliness of the concept, and it works, generating scenes you won’t soon (or ever) forget. “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here!”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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Long before Matt Damon temporarily forgot about his lethal combat skills in The Bourne Identity, Geena Davis did the same thing in this 1996 action movie, which pairs her with Samuel L. Jackson in this tale of a suburban mom who slowly but surely recovers her memory as a top secret agent – at the same time her old adversaries are discovering her fate, and her whereabouts. Watch it for its clever premise, its action sequences, and one torture scene that is a frighteningly early cinematic us
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
2
 
 
This third season of An Idiot Abroad ended way too quickly, after only three episodes. Series creator Ricky Gervais apparently thought so, too, so serves up this after-the-fact special, cobbled together from outtakes and subsequent interviews. But whatever Gervais cobbles together, especially when it involves reluctant traveler Karl Pilkington (pictured), I’m happy to watch.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
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2
 
 
Tonight’s new episode features Kevin Hart as guest host, and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis are musical guests. If you know all those names, this installment’s for you, especially.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
2
 
 
Fox set sail last fall with The Mob Doctor, which committed malpractice in the ratings. ABC's better rendered new Red Widow could just as easily be titled The Mob Mom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
2
 
 
Still flush with the huge success of Hatfields & McCoys, History (Channel) doubles down Sunday night with a pair of scripted miniseries sharing violence and spirituality...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
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Charlie Chaplin became an international film superstar by keeping silent (the movies forced him to, at first), and by portraying a sweet soul constantly at odds with a cold, cruel world. But in the sound era, later in his career, Chaplin played a much more vocal and venomous type. As the title character in this dark comedy from 1947, he plays a man who woos and marries wealthy women, with the aim of doing away with them afterward. That aim rings true at first – but not always. Co-stars in
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Mar
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John Goodman didn’t win a Supporting Actor Oscar for his terrific work in Argo, but he was great there. He’s great here, too, in another supporting role that threatens to steal the film from even the other fine actors sharing the screen. (Come to think of it, Goodman just did the same thing in Flight, as well.) And in this 1998 movie, Goodman is sharing the screen with Jeff Bridges and Steve Buscemi, so calling Goodman a scene-stealer in Lebowski is a compliment of the highest order.