DAVID BIANCULLI

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2020
Dec
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On this day in 2007, cable's Sci Fi channel (before it became SyFy) introduced a reimagined version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
 
 
The American Film Institute ranked this 1941 Orson Welles movie as the best film ever made. That’s one of dozens of reasons to watch this movie again, or especially anew, but this week brings a new one. On Friday, Netflix premieres a new movie called Mank, telling the story of the making of Citizen Kane by focusing on the man credited as the co-author of the film’s screenplay: Herman J. Mankiewicz.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
2
 
 
The celebration will be very different, and much less populated, this year – but the tree has been delivered and put in place, and there was a surprise creature within that already has been discovered and celebrated. O come, owl ye faithful!
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
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[Editor’s note: The producer and director of our daily Best TV Tomorrow videos for TVWW, Larry Siegel, has some very specific opinions – for example, about science fiction movies and TV. He insists, for example, that while George Lucas released the first taste of his ongoing Star Wars saga in the mid-70s, it is only now, in Lucas’ own mid-70s, that he’s found new purity of storytelling in his Disney+ series, The Mandalorian. So I asked him to tell us more… -DB]

 

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
 
 
My default mode, in the days after Thanksgiving, is to moan about the appearance of Christmas TV specials so soon after one holiday, and so far in advance of another. But when it comes to a rebroadcast of one of the first Christmas specials ever made – back in 1964, with Burl Ives as the voice of Sam the Snowman.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
 
 
This 1992 movie is one of Rudy Giuliani’s favorite films, apparently – and he quoted it at length to make a point, or at least try to make one, when arguing election fraud in the Pennsylvania state court. So this is the first time this classic comedy has been televised since then, so tune in and watch to see how many fingers Vinny holds up …
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: This 14-part documentary series has been marvelous to watch, and extremely instructive. And tonight it ends, with a final documentary installment followed by one last night of international films directed by woman worldwide. And this Women Make Film TCM multi-month celebration may have saved the weirdest for last: At 6 a.m. ET Wednesday, it’s the 2015 film The Lure, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska, in which a local Polish cabaret hires a pair of ench
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
 
 
In last week’s Episode 2 of Big Spy, the trucker who was abducting young women for his sexual slavery ring was surprised when one of his three abductees revealed herself to be something different than what the trucker had presumed. Yet managed to live through, and past, the revelatory experience.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Dec
1
 
 
On this day in 2004, the fashion-themed reality competition show Project Runway made its debut on Bravo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Nov
30
 
 
On this day in 1971, the made-for-TV movie, "Brian’s Song," aired on ABC under its Movie of the Week umbrella...