Yesterday on the Fox broadcast network, the U.S. women’s soccer team faced the host nation, France, in a well-played quarterfinal game, one in which the American squad scored an early goal, built an eventual 2-0 lead (with both goals scored by Megan Rapinoe, pictured), and held on to win after France scored a goal late and tried furiously to even the score before time ran out in regulation play. The day before, in the first quarterfinal game of this year’s FIFA tournament, England ha

2019

Jun

ROBIN HOOD By David Bianculli

This is not a recommendation. This 2018 movie isn’t a good version of the familiar legend – so it joins a short but significantly disappointing recent line of subpar Robin Hood remakes. This one stars Kingsman star Taron Egerton, who rebounded this year by playing Elton John in Rocketman. So the fun here, such as it is, is imagining Elton in a much more rough and rural British setting, stealing from the rich instead of amassing his own wealth and go

2019

Jun

COWBOYS STILL REIGN ON TV By Mike Hughes

You might remember cowboys. They used to be big in the movies. And on TV. And, perhaps, in our daydreams...

2019

Jun

THE CREEPY THRILLER, 'THE CHOSEN ONE,' STARTS STREAMING ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley

With so many hours to fill, television eventually gets around to almost every contemporary issue...

2019

Jun

FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli

The last time so many U.S. viewers tuned in for coverage of a live TV event from Paris, it was when the Notre Dame cathedral was on fire. Today, though, it’s a much happier occasion. It’s the U.S. women’s soccer team that’s on fire, dominating the 2019 FIFA tournament this year and emerging from the group stage undefeated. But now it faces France, which also won all three of its group stage games, and is the host country to boot. (And hey: isn’t it especially sweet

2019

Jun

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode was a mind-bending, time-bending episode running Fitz and Jemma (Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge) through a series of dangers, conflicts and personae (pictured) – but the episode ended with the couple not only reunited, but rescued. That was good news. Now the bad news: Tonight, they and their S.H.I.E.L.D. cohorts move from the proverbial frying pan into the galactic fire.

2019

Jun

JETT By David Bianculli

The crime caper at the end of last week’s episode of Jett had series star Carla Gugino, as former master thief “Jett” Kowalski, forced to take a crew on a safecracking job inside a mob-connected nightclub. Armed with both a gun and a killer outfit and blonde wig, Jett infiltrated the place easily – but just before the closing credits rolled, one of her fellow robbers pointed his gun directly at her, at close range, and fired. Because her name is this show’

2019

Jun

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

After two nights of Democratic debates featuring presidential hopefuls, Bill Maher hits the stage for a post-mortem monologue, and a conversation with tonight’s scheduled guests – who include MSNBC anchor Joy Reid, author Max Brooks, Seth MacFarlane, and one of the presidential aspirants who made the cut for the first set of Democratic debates, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who’s likely to get more screen and talking time tonight on Real Time than she did in real time on

2019

Jun

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

When James Corden did a week of shows from London recently, he began with Tom Hanks – who shows up here as well, coming to play with the very playful Graham Norton, whose all-guests-seated-together format is one that Corden has “borrowed.” And on Norton’s couch tonight, Hanks shares couch space with, among others, Gwyneth Paltrow and the movies’ latest Spider-Man, Tom Holland.

2019

Jun

MYRA BRECKENRIDGE By David Bianculli

This controversial 1970 screen adaptation of Gore Vidal’s bestseller made room for cinematic sex symbols from the past, present and future. Mae West represented the past (and among her on-screen conquests here is a pre-Magnum, P.I. Tom Selleck ), a pre-Charlie’s Angels Farrah Fawcett represented the future – and Raquel Welch, playing the gender-bending, transitioning titular character, was very, very present throughout.

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