The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon team recently transformed the iconic 30 Rockefeller Center into Westeros, George R.R. Martin's fictional land of magic and dragons, for the Game of Thrones parody, "Game of Desks"...

2013

Jun

DOG DAY AFTERNOON By David Bianculli

This brilliant, captivating 1972 film is all the more fascinating for being based on a true story – a story so unusual, it likely never would have been concocted by a screenwriter, much less approved by a studio. But here is Al Pacino, playing a guy who stages a bank robbery in Brooklyn in hopes of financing his gay lover’s sex-change operation. But it’s not the motive that’s important here – it’s the tension, and the uncertainty, and the circus-like atmospher

2013

Jun

BREATHLESS By David Bianculli

Here’s a crucial entry in what was called the New Wave of French cinema. Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard, it’s actually a salute to an Old Wave of Hollywood cinema. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a dapper young tough with a motorcycle, a sneer and a smile, and an obsession with many things American, including his own girlfriend (the lovely Jean Seberg) and the movies of Humphrey Bogart.

2013

Jun

PREMIUM RUSH By David Bianculli

David Koepp directed and co-wrote this 2012 action drama, which casts Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger in Manhattan, who gets entrusted with a package that begins a deadly chase around the city. Think of trying to stage a French Connection-style chase scene with one of the vehicles on two wheels, and you’ll understand the kinetic excitement Koepp was after.

2013

Jun

IN THE FLESH By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 3 of 3. This is the conclusion of this new three-part Brtish import about zombie rehab. Is it possible? And, if so, will uninfected survivors trust the cure? If so, it’s time for a zombie jamboree. If not…

2013

Jun

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN By David Bianculli

This is one of two recent Snow White movies, both of which featured a big-name Evil Queen (Charlize Theron in this one, Julia Roberts in the other) and did relatively poorly at the box office. This one, from 2012, stars Twilight leading lady Kristen Stewart as Snow White, and more inventive special effects and costumes than the other – but that’s about it. Except that the Huntsman in the title is played by Chris Hemsworth, who also plays one of The Avengers. I better mention him &nda

2013

Jun

TNT ROLLS OUT ANOTHER AMPERSAND-CENTRIC SERIES, 'KING & MAXWELL' By Ed Bark

Ampersands have been good business for TNT, so the third time around doesn’t even have to be a charm...

2013

Jun

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO By David Bianculli

Noomi Rapace, who stars in this original Swedish movie version of the international bestselling thriller, is shown here in even finer form, in an extended version that occupies all of Sundance’s prime time schedule tonight.

2013

Jun

THE MALTESE FALCON By David Bianculli

Tonight’s lineup is a salute to writer Dashiell Hammett, whom the evening’s host, Eddie Muller, pronounces as Dash-EEL, which he insists is correct. (Great. One more name I’ve been mispronouncing all my life, along with what I used to call J.D. Salinger’s Franny and ZOO-ey. Sigh.) It starts off with the movie The Maltese Falcon, but not the familiar Humphrey Bogart vehicle. This one, from a decade earlier (1931, to be precise), stars Ricardo Cortez as Sam Spade. Other fil

2013

Jun

IN THE FLESH By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 2 of 3. Can zombies be rehabilitated? That’s the odd twist behind this twisted little British import, which imagines a zombie outbreak after the discovery of an alleged cure. How trustworthy is it? And how trusting will humans be, with “former” zombies in their midst? After all, if ex-zombies fall off the wagon, they’re liable to take some people with them – which really bites.

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