Watch this 1964 Disney live-action movie, starring Julie Andrews as the umbrella-sporting heroine of the P.L. Travers story – then go find and watch 2013’s Saving Mr. Banks, in which Emma Thompson plays Travers, and Tom Hanks plays Walt Disney, who pursues her tenaciously for the rights to make Mary Poppins into a movie. Each film, the one from 1964 and the one from nearly 50 years later, informs and enriches the other.

2015

Dec

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT By David Bianculli

Insurgent, starring Shailene Woodley as Tris, is the second film based on the Divergent trilogy of acclaimed Young Adult fantasy novels. First came Divergent in 2014, followed by Insurgent earlier this year. Next up: the concluding saga of the trilogy, Astringent, in which young Tris gets a pimple.

2015

Dec

HERE COMES MR. JORDAN By David Bianculli

Tonight’s lineup on TCM is devoted to “Afterlife Adventures,” starting with Here Comes Mr. Jordan, a 1941 movie that was remade by Warren Beatty as Heaven Can Wait in 1978. The title role is played by Claude Rains (pictured, with Robert Montgomery playing the athlete who is separated from his body before his “time.” The title for Beatty’s remake comes from an earlier movie, from 1943 – which, conveniently, is shown at 10 p.m. ET, starring Don Ameche as a

2015

Dec

THE RETURNED By David Bianculli

Tonight’s installment is the penultimate episode of Season 2 of The Returned – and it returns us to that ominous housing complex.

2015

Dec

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Chris Hemsworth (seen here from his previous SNL appearance) is the host for tonight’s episode. Musical guest: Chance the Rapper.

2015

Dec

SYFY'S 'THE EXPANSE' LOOKS GREAT BUT STORY IS LOST IN SPACE By Ed Bark

Star Wars never would have gotten off the ground had it started this incomprehensibly...

2015

Dec

FULL SEASON OF SUPERHERO 'JESSICA JONES' FLIES HIGH ON NETFLIX By Ed Bark

Jessica Jones is endowed with super strength and the ability to fly but is very much out of uniform and in a funk for her Season One escapades on Netflix...

2015

Dec

THE PRINCESS BRIDE By David Bianculli

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to… be entertained by one of the best family movies ever made. From 1987, it’s Rob Reiner as director, and William Goldman adapting his own novel for the screen, teaming up for a film that’s a wondrous delight from start to finish. Including the start, in which Peter Falk plays a grandfather reading the story "A Princess Bride" to his initially reluctant grandson, played by Fred Savage. You’ll love it all, in

2015

Dec

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER By David Bianculli

There haven’t been many funny film comedies based on stage plays about critics, but there are a few. Arsenic and Old Lace may be the best of them all, but there’s also a respectable second place in this 1942 film. Monty Woolley, reprising his Broadway role, stars as Sheridan Whiteside, a nationally known critic who fakes an injury so he can keep receiving the hospitality of a well-to-do family. Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan co-star.

2015

Dec

ALOHA By David Bianculli

This 2015 movie came and went so quickly this year, you hardly had time to say “Aloha” before it was time to say “Aloha.” And now it’s back, appearing on cable relatively quickly after it vanished from theaters. Cameron Crowe directs, and Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams and Emma Stone star – and now you can see it without leaving home, which is the same way most people missed it in theaters.

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