Turn your TV dial to 11, and enjoy this 1984 mockumentary, which remains, almost 30 years later (!!!), astoundingly fresh and sassy. Rob Reiner directs, and also co-wrote the partly improvised screenplay, along with Spinal Tap band members Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean. Also, watch for the many familiar faces having fun here: not only Reiner and Fran Drescher, but Paul Shaffer, Patrick Macnee, Billy Crystal, Dana Carvey, Ed Begley Jr., and Fred Willard.

2013

Aug

'FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS': THE VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE By Eric Gould

One day, there is the countryside and olive groves. The next, bulldozers, construction crews, and a military-style security fence. This is a simple tale from the other side of Israeli settlements...

2013

Aug

'BREAKING BAD' FROM BELOW By Eric Gould

Breaking Bad Creator Vince Gilligan and director of photography Michael Slovis have gone, repeatedly, where the majority of shows generally never go -- inside electrical outlets and toilets, and under barbecue grills...

2013

Aug

DANCES WITH WOLVES By David Bianculli

In 1990, Kevin Costner was enjoying an especially strong time in his career – reaping both acclaim and awards as both actor and director, and using his Hollywood clout to present a Western that was epic in both length and structure. It’s especially noteworthy, then and now, for being a Western in which sympathies were placed pointedly on the side of the native Americans. Watch for Mary McDonnell, who later played the female president on Battlestar Galactica, as Stands With a Fist. (I

2013

Aug

THE SOCIAL NETWORK By David Bianculli

It’s been 10 years now since Mark Zuckerberg sat down in his Harvard dorm room and concocted what evolved into what we all now know as Facebook. (What a difference a decade makes.) Aaron Sorkin wrote this super-smart, whip-speed account of the development of social media’s most pervasive player, and his 2010 movie is loaded with stars who burned more brightly almost immediately: Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Rooney Mara as Erica Albright, and Just

2013

Aug

THE LADY EVE By David Bianculli

Preston Sturges gets a lot of the credit for the crackling wit in this 1941 comedy. Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, as a sexy con woman and one of her flustered marks, get the rest. What a breezy, enjoyable little film.

2013

Aug

THE WHITE QUEEN By David Bianculli

Elizabeth (Rebecca Ferguson) hasn’t been in power for long, but she’s already learned how to wield it – in ways that affect not only people far from her kingdom, but even those closely within her royal court.

2013

Aug

AMERICAN GIGOLO By David Bianculli

Paul Schrader wrote and directed this 1980 movie, gaining additional notoriety not only for himself, but for his crucially charismatic star, Richard Gere, who plays a male prostitute. Lauren Hutton co-stars.

2013

Aug

LASSIE COME HOME By David Bianculli

Today’s TCM lineup is Taylor-made for Liz fans. Elizabeth Taylor’s movies are on tap all day and all tonight, beginning with her second movie, this 1943 family favorite, made when she was only 11 – and co-starring another lifelong movie star, Roddy MacDowall. Other Elizabeth Taylor movies on tap today, before and after prime time, include 1944’s National Velvet at 8:45 a.m. ET, 1956’s Giant at 4:15 p.m. ET, and 1966’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at m

2013

Aug

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF By David Bianculli

Elizabeth Taylor is today’s TCM star of the day, and while plenty of other Taylor films fill the day and late-night hours, this 1958 film version of the Tennessee Williams play is the one that is reserved for the start of prime time. Paul Newman plays Brick, Burl Ives plays his imposing Big Daddy, and Taylor stands both between and away from them both, as Maggie the Cat, as sultry and twisted a heroine as any in Williams’ Broadway arsenal.

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