This week, it’s the Republicans’ turn to hold their national convention during this ongoing pandemic. If they took good notes during the Democratic version, and make good decisions this week, they’ll copy at least three elements: the nationally distributed roll call nominations, the outdoor fireworks, and the speeches delivered without delegates or applause. I’m guessing the fireworks are a lock, the national roll call a maybe, and the audience-free speeches a l

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BROOKLYN BRIDGE By David Bianculli

This is DEFINITELY a recommendation: Ten years ago, one of our TVWW contributors, Tom Brinkmoeller, wrote a column that remains, I believe, our most commented-upon blog in our 13-year history. It was about the lamentable fact that Gary David Goldberg’s Brooklyn Bridge, the outstanding 1991 period comedy set in 1950s Brooklyn, not only was nowhere in syndication or cable, but had no then-current plans for home-video release on DVD. That was a decade ago, as you can read in To

2020

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TIME FOR THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION By Mike Hughes

Now we're at the mid-point of the political-convention season...

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SUMMER UNDER THE STARS: OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By David Bianculli

Olivia de Havilland, who died last month at age 104, is the subject of today’s “Summer Under the Stars” salute on TCM. She was born in 1916, and appeared in her first film, Alibi Ike, in 1935. That same year, she also played Hermia in a film version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and starred opposite Errol Flynn in Captain Blood. By 1938, she was starring opposite Flynn again, playing Maid Marian in 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Ho

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GET OUT By David Bianculli

Comedian Jordan Peele carved out an entirely new career path for himself as the writer-director of this brilliant 2017 thriller – a movie as commendable for its casting choices as for its inventive, allegorical story. Daniel Kaluuya is perfect as the young man who somewhat reluctantly visits his white girlfriend's family for a weekend vacation. Allison Williams is the girlfriend, Bradley Whitfield and Catherine Keener play her parents, and they’re all outstanding in very multilayered

2020

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THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE CRAZIEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

Last week, The Circus returned – with its correspondents traveling a bit less, eating in separate restaurants or open spaces and talking by phone, but still covering a very active week in politics. And this past week, the Democrats held their socially distanced convention, which the team will cover and analyze, while looking ahead to this week’s Republican counterpart.

2020

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LOVECRAFT COUNTRY By David Bianculli

This second episode has an awful lot going on within its one-hour running time – and while keeping all those plot twists secret, I have to mention the music that opens and closes the episode, because it gobsmacked me in such a positive way. When Jurnee Smollett’s Letitia dives into the closet of posh clothes available to her in the Braithwhite mansion, she does so to the tune of “Movin’ On Up” from The Jeffersons – and at the end of the hou

2020

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Showing up between conventions, John Oliver gets to look back at the Democrats and ahead at the Republicans. I’m keenly interested in both perspectives…

2020

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A CELEBRATION OF OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND By Mike Hughes

For any Hollywood star, this may be a record: After making her most famous film, Olivia de Havilland lived another 81 years...

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