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2017
Mar
15
 
 
Sundays belong to John Oliver, Saturdays to SNL, Fridays to Bill Maher – and Wednesdays, if you want a show that’s paying a lot of attention to both politics and comedy, another rich oasis to visit is this one and Samantha Bee.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
15
 
 
On the delicate matter of having every minute of our private lives monitored by cameras and computers these days, it could be fairly said we’re sending at least one mixed signal...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
15
 
 
Here’s Stephen Colbert’s latest riff on Kellyanne Conway’s recent claim that the government can eavesdrop on you through your microwave oven.  Turns out that the little kitchen helpers also make great Late Show studio TV cameras, and have one other amazing capability...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
15
 
 
Sundance’s Hap and Leonard returns for a second season Wednesday and provides more reasons this series should not be flying under the radar...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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
14
 
 
The evidence builds against eccentric Larry Henderson (John Lithgow) in Trial & Error, a mockumentary spoof of the burgeoning “true crime” genre...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
14
 
 
Every time you start to get annoyed at NBC’s new sitcom Trial & Error, you think how much the creators obviously love the immortal film My Cousin Vinny and you back off...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
14
 
 
The contestants continue, this season, to both surprise and impress with their song choices, and especially with their individual interpretations of those songs. From last week, one case in point whose originality lingers as a sterling example: Taylor Alexander, doing a very country, very male version of Cher’s “Believe.” It was good enough, and unusual enough, to land him on Adam Levine’s team. This is the final week of the audition round, and last night, once again, pro
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
14
 
 
Actually, they should have called this 1971 movie Bree – because Bree Daniels, the call girl played by Jane Fonda, is the real center of this Alan J. Pakula film. Fonda won the Oscar, and deserved to, as the prostitute who is among the targets of a killer of ladies of the night. Klute is the name of the detective, John Klute, assigned to solve the case and protect Bree – he’s played by Donald Sutherland, who’s excellent here, too, but Klute is Fonda’s movie all the
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
14
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This series, the NBC spiritual predecessor to such heartwarming family dramas as Friday Night Lights and Parenthood, concludes its first season with an episode that manages to wrest emotion even out of its flashback scenes, though we know how they will, and won’t, turn out. Credit the writing… and the acting, including that of singer Mandy Moore.