Basketball star LeBron James took half the advice from people, up to and tacitly including the president of the United States, who told him to shut up and dribble...

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Nov

WATERGATE By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: Part 2 of 3. The best thing about this new, multi-part Watergate documentary by Charles Ferguson is its thoroughness, and its ability to place so much in the proper historical and social context of the late Sixties and early Seventies. The worst part? Its “historical re-enactments” of the Nixon tapes. I’d just as soon hear the real thing throughout, with no visuals, as watch actors read and act out the words, and imagined postures and movements, of

2018

Nov

SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: Part 1 of 3. This multi-part sports documentary series comes from LeBron James, whose off-court, on-TV brilliance already has established itself with his monthly HBO talk show The Shop – which, in gathering athletes and entertainers (white and black, male and female) to a barbershop to talk frankly about sports, race, politics, role models, and other things, has emerged in only two outings as one of the freshest TV talk shows in years. And now comes Shut Up and

2018

Nov

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

This series has been dormant during a particularly busy two-week period for news – but tonight, SNL returns, with Jonah Hill as guest host, and Maggie Rogers as the musical guest.

2018

Nov

IS THIS THE REAL LIFE, IS THIS JUST FANTASY By Linda Donovan

Rami Malek, the Emmy-winning actor who plays the damaged and anxiety-ridden Elliot Alderson on USA Network's Mr. Robot, shows his impressive acting range in his transformative, seamless portrayal of the late Freddie Mercury...

2018

Nov

AMAZON PRIME'S 'HOMECOMING' HAS BOTH STAR POWER AND A STORY THAT STICKS By Ed Bark

A plus-sized pelican emitting growling sounds seems to know something’s fishy about the “reintegration process” at Florida’s Homecoming Transitional Support Center...

2018

Nov

HOMECOMING By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Based on a scripted podcast from 2016 starring Catherine Keener and Oscar Isaac, this new TV series is overseen and directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Ismael, and stars Julia Roberts and Stephan James, with supporting parts for Bobby Cannavale, Sissy Spacek, Shea Whigham and Jeremy Allen White. Homecoming is the name of a mysterious therapy institute for returning soldiers from Afghanistan and elsewhere, with Roberts playing a therapist and James one of her patients. But in a fut

2018

Nov

HOUSE OF CARDS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: How can House of Cards carry on without its central character, Frank Underwood, due to the scandal-enforced absence of star and former executive producer Kevin Spacey? Watch and see. It shifts the focus, and the power, to Frank’s wife, Claire, played by Robin Wright. She’s up to the challenge, and ascends like Lady Macbeth finally given her moment. She even takes over the role of breaking-the-fourth-wall narrator, albeit unreliably. And the absence of Frank hangs ove

2018

Nov

THEY'LL LOVE ME WHEN I'M DEAD By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Morgan Neville’s previous documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, was a fabulous appreciation and examination of children’s TV host Fred Rogers. (I appear in it briefly as a TV historian, but the movie’s terrific despite that small flaw.) Now his new documentary, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, is a meticulous and utterly fascinating examination of Orson Welles’ final work in progress, a partly improvised drama called The Other

2018

Nov

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Assembled after more than half a century, this newly compiled version of Orson Welles’ weird movie vision – a sort of cross between 8 ½ and Curb Your Enthusiasm – is available today on Netflix. Watch They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Morgan Neville’s documentary about this long-unfinished film, first (it also drops today on Netflix), then watch this. An amazing, wild double feature.

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