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2013
Oct
28
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED By David Bianculli
 
 
James Toback and Alec Baldwin team up for this new HBO Documentary film, which basically gives them an excuse to seek funding for an erotic movie they want to make, while flattering ad luring potential investors by filming the process. The snake-oil sales pitches are a little creepy, but the accompanying conversations with directors and actors, about Cannes and the filmmaking and fundraising process, are very entertaining. James Caan, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Roman Polanski (pic
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
28
THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight is Part 8: 1967-1979, New American Cinema. And this means the narrative of this documentary finally gets to one of the best periods in modern American cinema. And what movies are on the TCM schedule tonight, as extra treats! Mike Nichols’ 1967 The Graduate (at 8 p.m. ET). Robert Altman’s 1971 McCabe and Mrs. Miller (11:45 p.m. ET). Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 The Last Picture Show (1:30 a.m. ET), featuring Jeff Bridges and introducing Cybill Shepherd (pictured). And Martin
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
28
MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER By David Bianculli
 
 
Robert Altman’s 1971 Western is a wonderful movie that subverts almost everything you expect in a traditional Western, yet delivers a satisfying, fascinating drama anyway.  Warren Beatty and Julie Christie star in the title roles: He plays a gambler, she plays a prostitute. And you can’t take your eyes off either one of them, even in the snow.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
28
THE AVENGERS: THE COMPLETE EMMA PEEL MEGASET (2013) By David Bianculli
 
 
The 2013 in the title refers to this new release by Lionsgate, which packages this classic Sixties British series in a very affordable new reissue...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
'AMERICAN BLACKOUT' IS A GRADE-C MASHUP, BUT FUN By David Sicilia
 
 
...Oddly, this mash-up of grade-C TV and movie editing techniques makes for two hours of compelling and mostly convincing television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
2013 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli
 
 
Last night’s Game 3 ended in a slide at the plate (he’s out!), a throw to third (he missed!), another slide to the plate (he’s…what?) – and a cloud of controversy that gave the St. Louis Cardinals the walk-off win, after a tense tie game in the bottom of the ninth. Tonight is Game 4 – and if the Boston Red Sox don’t have motivation to hit and field well tonight, then, well, this series is almost over.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli
 
 
This is the episode where everything comes to a head at the law firm. I know it for sure this time, because CBS sent out an advance review copy. And fasten your seat belts… this is a deliciously bumpy ride.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli
 
 
This week’s episode is called “Isolation,” and it doesn’t have to do with the group inside the prison and the zombies outside. Well, yes, there’s that – but there’s also a problem inside the prison, which causes some of the “inmates” to demand strict quarantine from the others.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
HOMELAND By David Bianculli
 
 
The extreme plot twists this far this season have come into focus, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more to come. Not when Carrie (Claire Danes), already the focus of intense scrutiny and a magnet for extreme tension, gets an unexpected visitor – Brody’s wife.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
27
MASTERS OF SEX By David Bianculli
 
 
Lizzy Kaplan’s Virginia Johnson tries to connect with her son in this episode – but given what’s just happened at home, it isn’t easy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley