ABC’s 20th anniversary salute to Toy Story is followed by the original article: The 1995 movie that started it all, and also jump-started an entire new film industry in feature-length computer animation. Enjoy Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and the rest, taking Pixar to solvency, and beyond!

2015

Dec

DOLLY PARTON'S COAT OF MANY COLORS By David Bianculli

Dolly Parton’s early life in poverty was the basis for a song, which is the basis for this new NBC telemovie. Dolly, as a girl, is given a patchwork rag coat to wear to school, because her family can’t afford a new one. Dolly thinks it’s special – her classmates, not so much. And that’s where this holiday lesson begins. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

2015

Dec

'COAT OF MANY COLORS' STITCHES CHRISTMAS INTO A DOLLY PARTON BIO By David Hinckley

Coat of Many Colors, a new teleflick loosely built on Dolly Parton’s heartwarming 1971 country song, makes Hallmark Christmas movies look like The Walking Dead...

2015

Dec

THE GOLDBERGS By David Bianculli

Every once in a while, a TV sitcom takes on the holiday spirit by coming up with a hybrid holiday of its own (yes, I’m talking about you, Seinfeld). Tonight on The Goldbergs, Beverly tries to concoct a more exciting holiday to compete with Christmas – and creates “Super Hanukkah.”

2015

Dec

FROM HERE TO ETERNITY By David Bianculli

TCM continues to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Frank Sinatra (perhaps you’ve heard?) by presenting another batch of movies and specials featuring him tonight. Chief among them, at 9 p.m. ET: 1953’s From Here to Eternity, which starred Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed – but counted as a major comeback vehicle for Sinatra.

2015

Dec

TIME SCANNERS: MACHU PICCHU By David Bianculli

This series uses some very modern technology – in this case, 3D laser scanning – to probe some very ancient wonders. In tonight’s new episode, structural engineer Steve Burrows and host Dallas Campbell try to figure out how the Incan city of Machu Picchu was constructed, and why. One of the things they learned had to do with where all the bodily wastes went – and their discovery, you might say, uncovers a veritable royal flush. Check local listings.

2015

Dec

A CHRISTMAS CAROL By David Bianculli

Made for CBS as a holiday telemovie in 1984, this version of the Charles Dickens classic story is one of the best. It’s got Frank Finlay as Jacob Marley, and David Warner as Bob Cratchit, but really soars because George C. Scott is perfectly cast as the snarling, scowling Ebenezer Scrooge. Great Scott!

2015

Dec

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode title is “She Wants Revenge.” The exact identity of “She” is not made clear, and on this series, there are an awful lot of female suspects. One of them, clearly, is Ramona Royale, the latest femme fatale played on this anthology series by Angela Bassett.

2015

Dec

10 MORSELS TO SAVOR FROM 'DOWNTON ABBEY' CAST VISIT TO NEW YORK By David Hinckley

With the final season of Downton Abbey less than a month away, a good chunk of the cast reunited this week in New York for what Hugh Bonneville observed might be the last time...

2015

Dec

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU By Jonathan Storm

British comedy team Greg Haiste and Marie Lawrence have put together an hilarious spoof Star Wars trailer in the style of naturalist British director Ken Loach and his 1969 film Kes, complete with appropriately weird Yorkshire dialect...

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