A parody using at its starting point the 1988 documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, Long Gone stars Fred Armisen as jazz guitarist Rex Logan, and Natasha Lyonne, fresh from Russian Doll, as his enamored girlfriend.

2019

Mar

AMY SCHUMER: GROWING By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: This newest Amy Schumer special catches the comedian going through some changes. These include her recent marriage, and even more recent pregnancy – topics which provide several fresh new sub-topics for her standup act. Her husband, for example, is chef Chris Fischer, who has autism spectrum disorder, a condition that provides Schumer a ream of new material, and the opportunity to display and explore a more sensitive comic approach.

2019

Mar

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? By David Bianculli

This 2000 Coen Brothers comedy has one of the best music compilation soundtracks since American Graffiti, and one of George Clooney’s best movie performances ever. Based on Homer’s The Odyssey, and borrowing its title from a fictional screenplay in a Preston Sturges comedy, O Brother stars Clooney as a convict on the lam in the Depression-era Deep South, a chain-gang escapee connected, quite literally, to fellow fugitives played by John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson. All three are re

2019

Mar

THIS IS US By David Bianculli

The newest Pearson family member shows up in tonight’s show. And, as with any of the other characters in this very dramatic family series, there are complications…

2019

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MENTAL SAMURAI By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Rob Lowe is the host of this new Fox game show, which is part Jeopardy! played on speed dial, and part astronaut-training obstacle course. It’s weird, it’s fast, and Lowe may as well be playing his evil Number 2 henchman from the Austin Powers film – because he gets even more delight in the discomfort and anxiety of the contestants than Ellen DeGeneres does in NBC’s Ellen’s Game of Games. Is Mental Samurai fun to watch? You decide… And you&rs

2019

Mar

'THE FIX' SOUNDS ODDLY FAMILIAR By David Hinckley

In every tragedy, there are secondary victims whose plight, however downplayed, misunderstood, or downright ignored, creates real human pain...

2019

Mar

'THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY' IS THE STORY OF A SWINDLE OF EPIC PROPORTIONS By David Hinckley

Maybe it’s a perverse sign of gender progress that one of the biggest fraud scandals in recent Silicon Valley history came under a woman’s watch. For years, let’s face it; women never got far enough into the upper strata of the high-tech game to have a shot at that kind of superlative...

2019

Mar

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

The sixth round of blind auditions for this latest cycle is presented tonight – and NBC isn’t through milking this phase of the competition. Wednesday night, it presents “Best of Blinds,” in case you haven’t been watching so far this cycle…

2019

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SING By David Bianculli

This 2016 animated musical has some giddy, goofy visuals, but it’s the music, and the performers behind their animal alter egos, that make this cartoon music competition so much fun. For instance, that’s Reese Witherspoon nailing Katy Perry’s “Firework” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” (pictured). And Scarlett Johannson singing “Call Me Maybe.”

2019

Mar

THE INVENTOR: OUT FOR BLOOD IN SILICON VALLEY By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford, yet convinced investors to back her Theranos medical startup to the tune of $900 million – and lost it all. This new documentary explains how, and why. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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