Jessica Jones is endowed with super strength and the ability to fly but is very much out of uniform and in a funk for her Season One escapades on Netflix...

2015

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE By David Bianculli

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to… be entertained by one of the best family movies ever made. From 1987, it’s Rob Reiner as director, and William Goldman adapting his own novel for the screen, teaming up for a film that’s a wondrous delight from start to finish. Including the start, in which Peter Falk plays a grandfather reading the story "A Princess Bride" to his initially reluctant grandson, played by Fred Savage. You’ll love it all, in

2015

Dec

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER By David Bianculli

There haven’t been many funny film comedies based on stage plays about critics, but there are a few. Arsenic and Old Lace may be the best of them all, but there’s also a respectable second place in this 1942 film. Monty Woolley, reprising his Broadway role, stars as Sheridan Whiteside, a nationally known critic who fakes an injury so he can keep receiving the hospitality of a well-to-do family. Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan co-star.

2015

Dec

ALOHA By David Bianculli

This 2015 movie came and went so quickly this year, you hardly had time to say “Aloha” before it was time to say “Aloha.” And now it’s back, appearing on cable relatively quickly after it vanished from theaters. Cameron Crowe directs, and Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams and Emma Stone star – and now you can see it without leaving home, which is the same way most people missed it in theaters.

2015

Dec

TRADING PLACES By David Bianculli

Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd nail this 1983 comedy of manners, playing two men on opposite sides of a reversal of fortune. So does the strong supporting cast, from Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche (as the wealthy men who see others as mere pawns) to Jamie Lee Curtis, pictured (as the prostitute with a heart of, if not gold, then a solid investment plan). And the city of Philadelphia is photographed cleverly here, too. Add in its holiday setting, and Trading Places is a fine film with which to spend

2015

Dec

THE KNICK By David Bianculli

Figuring prominently in this week’s episode is laudanum – perhaps the first time it’s played such a big role in a TV series since Deadwood.

2015

Dec

'THE JOY OF PAINTING' COMES TO YOUTUBE By David Hinckley

When Bob Ross called his PBS show The Joy of Painting, he meant it. And now, 20 years after his tragically early death, anyone who owns a computer can watch...

2015

Dec

TOY STORY AT 20: TO INFINITY AND BEYOND By David Bianculli

This new special not only is a celebration of Pixar the studio – which has since been absorbed by Disney, which also owns ABC – and of the three Toy Story movies. It’s also an extended advance promo for the upcoming fourth entry in the franchise. And lest you think this is too blatant a promotional ploy for ABC and Disney, please refer back to the launch of ABC’s Disneyland 60 years ago. That series promoted every movie and theme park shamelessly, as far back as when Disn

2015

Dec

BONES By David Bianculli

This two-hour midseason finale, or winter finale, or whatever it’s called this month, features Booth and Brennan going undercover at the same place – an Old West-style shooting competition – but not together. Which, of course, brings out the competiveness in them, and more.

2015

Dec

LES COUSINS By David Bianculli

French director Claude Chabrol is saluted tonight on TCM, and the first movie up in prime time is his influential 1958 character study, Les Cousins, in which Juliette Mayniel plays a young woman attracted to, and courted by, two cousins – one a city sophisticate, the other an unassuming country boy. Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy co-star. Other movies presented tonight include another 1958 Chabrol film, Le Beau Serge, at 10 p.m. ET, and 1988’s controversial Story of Women, in which

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