A musicality ripples through the movie Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Some of that, you would expect. The film is about a blues recording session in 1920s Chicago... But that's just part of it....

2020

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WONDER WOMAN By David Bianculli

Three years ago, actress Gal Gadot and director Patty Jenkins upended the movie industry by teaming for a powerful new tentpole franchise in the superhero genre, with the tremendous success of the inspirational female-empowerment 2017 film Wonder Woman. Later this week, on Christmas Day, the long-awaited sequel finally is released, and you can watch it on TV, exclusively on HBO Max. Meanwhile, today, you can watch the original Wonder Woman movie, and on a much less exclusive

2020

Dec

SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

The final season continues – with at least one Gallagher doing his best to uphold the law, as a newly uniformed police officer, and another Gallagher positioning himself way, way on the opposite side of the thin blue line.

2020

Dec

YOUR HONOR By David Bianculli

In tonight’s Episode 3, the web the judge has tried to spin to save his son continues to get stickier, and ensnare more people. After trying to cover up his son’s hit-and-run crime by asking one close friend to “disappear” his car, the judge (Bryan Cranston) gets in even deeper when the young man hired to drive the car to a wrecking yard is stopped and arrested on the way – and charged with the crime the judge’s son committed. How far with the deception go, in

2020

Dec

THE OUTSTANDING 'MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM' REMINDS US HOW LITTLE SOME THINGS HAVE CHANGED By David Hinckley

Netflix has come down our cyber-chimney with an early holiday present this year: the revival of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom...

2020

Dec

'THE PROM' AND RYAN MURPHY: BOTH FILLED WITH TALENT By Mike Hughes

I'm starting to be OK with Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal...

2020

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1979: CBS DEBUTS THE 'DALLAS' SPINOFF, 'KNOTS LANDING' By TV WW

This day in 1979 marked the debut of the Dallas spinoff, Knots Landing...

2020

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1987: NBC AIRS SPECIAL 'JACK PAAR IS ALIVE AND WELL!' By TV WW

On this day in 1987, NBC recognized Johnny Carson's Tonight Show predecessor with the one-hour special, Jack Paar is Alive and Well!...

2020

Dec

THE WIZARD OF OZ By David Bianculli

This 1939 children’s classic is shown again by TNT on Christmas night – but if you and yours are around this weekend, self-isolating during the pandemic, there’s no place like home, and no movie like The Wizard of Oz, which has that exact thought as its moral.

2020

Dec

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Kristen Wiig, the fabulously freewheeling former rep-company star of SNL, returns to Studio 8-H for the final new episode of 2020. She’s here as guest host, and to promote her co-starring role in Wonder Woman 1984, the new superhero movie that premieres Christmas Day on HBO Max. In the movie, Wiig plays Cheetah, and has garnered advance raves for her role as the antagonist who squares off against Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman. So Wiig is having a very good end of

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