SPECIAL: Filmed at the Beacon Theatre in New York, this new standup special gets the host of The Daily Show out from behind his desk, and pacing the stage like an uncaged animal, where he talks freely about various cultures, various politicians, and his own fascinating background.

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Feb

AMERICAN MASTERS: "MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE" By David Bianculli

This new documentary includes an interview conducted with the performer, writer and activist shortly before her death in 2014. She’d already told her own story, quite compellingly, in her bestselling and influential autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – but this film, by Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack, uses archival photos and footage to bring Angelou’s story, especially her early years, to very vivid life. Check local listings.

2017

Feb

THIS IS US By David Bianculli

In this week’s new episode, Randall takes his sick father on a road trip to Memphis. As they drive towards the city limits, I wonder if the Mississippi Delta is shining like a national guitar. That was the opening line of Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” drawing upon his own road trip, with his son, to that same city of Memphis. They were following the river down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War...

2017

Feb

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Last week, the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. completed their mission, rescued colleagues, and returned safely to headquarters. Well, that’s how it appeared – except it also appeared, based on recovered footage from security cameras, that many members of the team were replaced by lookalike humanoids. Tonight, it’s an exercise in pure, and purely understandable, paranoia. Are they real? Or are they Memorex?

2017

Feb

THE DETOUR By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For the Season 2 premiere, Jason Jones and Natalie Zea, as frazzled parents Nate and Robin, take their family off their extended road trip, and head to New York City – where Robin’s past, from when she lived there, looms especially large. Two new episodes are shown back-to-back to launch the new season.

2017

Feb

THINGS WENT SIDEWAYS AND THEN UP, AGAIN, FOR ‘GIRLS’ FANS By Eric Gould

Lena Dunham made news again this week and it wasn’t due to her frequent position as whipping post for the now-sacked Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos... Last Sunday’s episode of Dunham’s Girls gave fans a surprise knuckleball...

2017

Feb

CAN 18 MILLION ‘NCIS’ VIEWERS BE WRONG? REPORTS OF TV’S DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED By Alex Strachan

There are secrets, and then there are lies...

2017

Feb

JIMMY SMITS ON HIS ROLE OF JOHN DONOVAN ON ’24: LEGACY’ By David Hinckley

Jimmy Smits doesn’t see his presidential candidate character on Fox’s 24: Legacy reflecting any real-life political figures. He seems a little relieved by that...

2017

Feb

SUPERGIRL By David Bianculli

This episode of Supergirl imports one of the most popular aliens in the DC Comics canon: the magical imp Mr. Mxyzptlk, a childlike, super-powerful being from another dimension, with the power to pretty much do anything he wants. (Think of him as a precursor of Q from Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Tonight he shows up on Supergirl, not to crush her – but with a crush on her. Which explains why Supergirl finds herself, suddenly, not in her red and blue uniform, but in white – as

2017

Feb

UNLOCKING THE CAGE By David Bianculli

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, two exceptionally celebrated and accomplished documentary filmmakers (their respective resumes include such influential classics as The War Room and Don’t Look Back), combined for this account of the legal fight to free chimpanzees from their cages – not by storming zoos or research facilities, but by going to court, and asking the U.S. justice system to consider “the personhood of non-human animals.” The attorneys make a compelling arg

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