DAVID BIANCULLI

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2013
Oct
15
 
 
Here’s a really enjoyable, yet totally defensible, topic for a three-hour PBS documentary special: an analysis of the history and impact of comic-book superheroes. Starting when Superman lifted that car in the first issue of Action Comics #1, the heroes of comics have waged a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American way. Take the tour, with such guides as Stan Lee, Lynda Carter and Adam West. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
15
 
 
Last week’s episode was a bomb – or, at least, ended with one exploding in the clubhouse, leaving the bikers with no home base in Charming – and with Jax (Charlie Hunnam) having a confrontation, after some time apart, with Bobby (Mark Boone Junior).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
15
 
 
BBC America’s Burton and Taylor compellingly recaptures the final go-around of its volatile centerpieces...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
14
 
 
With the wedding almost here, so are the in-laws. Tonight’s episode features two of Robin’s future in-laws: Wayne Brady, who’s made several appearances already this season as Barney’s brother, and Frances Conroy, moonlighting from American Horror Story: Coven to show up as Barney’s mother.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
14
 
 
The St. Louis Cardinals emerged victoriously in each of the first two games against the Los Angeles Dodgers in this year’s National League Championship Series. Tonight is Game 3, at Dodger Stadium. It’ll have to be some game to beat last night’s Tigers-Red Sox game, which was one thrilling, unexpected finish to a postseason baseball game.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
14
 
 
Giullietta Masina, the actress wife of Italian film director Federico Fellini, starred in his 1957 early triumph, an evocative cinematic daydream about a wide-eyed prostitute hoping for a better life, but constantly undone by unreliable men. This version restores the controversial eight-minute sequence edited out after the film’s original release.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
14
 
 
Michael Apted has worked on every one of the entries in this long-running all documentary biography series, and directed all but the first one. Every seven years, it revisits the same U.K. natives first visited when they were seven years old – revisits, that is, as many who agree to take part each time around – to talk to them about their dreams, lives, regrets and reflections. It’s an amazing series, and each entry makes it even richer. The previous one, 49 Up, was somewhat de
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
14
 
 
Tonight is Part 7, which means we’ve almost reached the halfway point of this excellent, inspirational film history documentary. Tonight’s focus is 1957-1964 – The Shock of the New, Modern Filmmaking in Western Europe. And though we have to wait to catch the exciting American cinema being generated at that same time, this episode allows us to revel in, and marvel at, early works by Federico Fellini out of Italy, and the French filmmakers whose combined efforts were known as cin
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
14
 
 
Paul McCartney visited Late Night recently and did a bit with host Jimmy Fallon – colliding with him, actually. Miraculously, like "bumped" iPhones, they switched accents...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Oct
13
 
 
AMC’s The Walking Dead returns for its new season without a deadly warlord to oppose – but with plenty of drama just in existing, day to day, after the zombie apocalypse…