DAVID BIANCULLI

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2017
Feb
15
 
 
[Editor's note: In our Student Blogs and elsewhere, we occasionally seek out the opinions of young writers and viewers, to get their perspectives on TV shows old and new. In this instance, we asked young entertainment blogger Chelsea Duff to give us her take on the CW's youth-targeted Riverdale to date -- including this week's impending episode. - David Bianculli]
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
A new documentary on the 1966 University of Texas murders, titled Tower, becomes an even stronger film as it goes along...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
The documentary film Tower offers a jarring reminder of mass murders on college campuses and schoolyards....
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This new Netflix movie stars Bob Odenkirk of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul as a formerly popular romance novelist in an alternate reality where writers of greeting cards are celebrated like rock-star poets. He’s trying to write the perfect card to launch a new national card-giving holiday: Girlfriend’s Day. Co-stars include Natasha Lyonne from Orange Is the New Black, Amber Tamblyn from House and Joan of Arcadia, and Andy Richter, Ed Begley Jr. and other stalwarts
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
There’s a theatrical premiere in tonight’s plot – but also, predictably, a Valentine’s Day story as well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
The showdown looms – and though the S.H.I.E.L.D. factor looks both outnumbered and outmaneuvered, the confrontation isn’t over yet.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
Director Keith Maitland takes a daringly different approach to this account of the first mass school shootings in U.S. history: the time in Austin, in 1966, when a sniper perched inside the bell tower on campus at the University of Texas and began shooting, long enough for a local TV reporter to broadcast live radio reports as the carnage ensued. Sixteen people died, more than twice that were wounded, and the events are recounted here through eyewitness and survivor testimony – and told mo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
14
 
 
Last week, Inbar Lavi began showcasing her range as this show’s leading lady, a chameleonic con woman, adopting three different personalities before the premiere episode was over. Tonight, her character’s journey continues – as does her donning of various disguises and accents.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
13
 
 
This is the third hour of the 24: Legacy 24-hour day – and we’ve already been hit with enough improbable subplots and plot twists to stretch credulity, and test patience, in viewers wondering whether they want to commit to this rebooted series. Corey Hawkins, in the leading role, has the necessary charisma and smoldering intensity to carry the show – but some of the supporting characters, especially the full-on or potential terrorists, are painted with very watery brushes. At l
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
13
 
 
This 1960 movie is a roman a clef – a fancy way of saying that while the story it tells basically is true, the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Or, at least, to prevent lawsuits, or claims for payment. Basically, though, the story told here is of public school teacher B.T. Cates, who is put on trial in the 1920s for teaching evolution. The attorneys are Matthew Brady for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond for the defense. Brady is played, with bluster and brimstone, by Fre