DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

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Associate Editor

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2017
Apr
21
 
 
This one is different. There are similarities, to be sure. A writer picketing outside a studio during the 2007 writers’ strike sported a placard...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
11
 
 
The MTV MTVA’s recent decision — effective this year — to scrap their best actor and best actress categories in favor of a single gender-neutral category is a conversation starter, if nothing else.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
 
 
A friend who’s just discovered The Good Fight told me the other day that she can’t believe how much she’s enjoying it. In the next breath, she  admitted she’d never seen The Good Wife. This is the kind of admission that demands instant cross-examination...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
27
 
 
If you could choose a different ending to Breaking Bad would you? Netflix executives are already talking about so-called “branch narratives” and different ways to connect plot points in some of its adult dramas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
14
 
 
Scan YouTube for highlights of Planet Earth II and one can’t help but be struck by how many compilation fan videos are of the blood-’n’-claws variety...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
3
 
 
“Here’s what you need to know about Russia’s ambassador to the US,” the Washington Post told readers, in its Friday edition. Joe Weisberg, the former CIA case officer who co-created The Americans with Joel Fields, could be forgiven for allowing himself a small laugh...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
1
 
 
The great Al Pacino can mumble with the best of them, as he proved in Warren Beatty’s wacky 1990 caper movie Dick Tracy. Arguably —  and not for the first time in his storied career — Pacino stole the movie...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
20
 
 
There are secrets, and then there are lies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
16
 
 
Mike Gunton is not the household name David Attenborough is, but if there’s to be a third go-round of Planet Earth, Gunton is likely the person who will sign off on it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
8
 
 
Doctor Who doesn’t return until April 15, but once again it’s facing a recurring existential question: Who will play the next Doctor when the rebooted series returns the following season?...