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2020
Mar
29
 
 

This isn’t what a filmmaker expects her mother to say at a premiere... 

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
29
 
 
"I. Just. Can't. Even." That four-word tweet was what first caught my attention...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
28
 
 
Paul Thomas Anderson got a lot of attention, and for good reason, for writing and directing this 1997 period character study, which looked at the changing porn industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s. More than 20 years after this film was released, what is most impressive, in retrospect, is the bravery of the casting, and the performances, with a lot of actors given the opportunity to do great work here – and taking full advantage. Burt Reynolds, as a porn filmmaker with grandiose visi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
28
 
 
Another treasure from the vaults of Tom and Dick Smothers. This Season 2 episode is from February 1968, and features the U.S. television debut of a little Australian rock group known as The Bee Gees. They sing their plaintive, slow song “Words” (“It’s only words / and words are all I have / to take your love away”), in a show that also features someone else whose TV debut was courtesy of the Smothers Brothers: Comedian Moms Mabley, making her second Comedy Hour
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
28
 
 
Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this 2019 movie about Hollywood at the end of the Sixties. Leonardo DiCaprio plays an actor, Brad Pitt his stunt double, and Margot Robbie plays ill-fated actress Sharon Tate. Pitt steals the show here, especially with a pair of intense showdown scenes in which he acts as singularly as Tarantino writes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 3 of Ozark begins with a scene that’s really, really dark, so if you’re seeking pure escapism, look elsewhere. But from the start, this series, starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney as a troubled couple who move to the Ozarks and try to deal with the mob, the feds, and the often deadly locals all at once, has been great, dark fun, if there is such a thing. It’s the sort of spiritual successor to FX’s Justified, with a similar cast
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
26
 
 
Tonight is Episode 5 of Devs, as FX on Hulu rolls out this scintillating series in weekly installments. In tonight’s episode, the experiment on which the top-secret development team has been working – tapping into the time stream and snatching sample bits of past and future “historical” audio – gets refined. And one surprise leads to another, and another, and to some very dramatic turns in this drama’s real world. If it is a real world&hell
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
26
 
 
Parts 4 and 5. Today, ESPN presents the concluding two chapters of this repeat showing of the excellent, unexpectedly revelatory five-part documentary miniseries on O.J. Simpson. And yes, the last installment, at 9 p.m. ET, covers the trial and the verdict – but not in ways you might initially imagine.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
26
 
 
Spike Lee directed this intense 1992 movie, which stars Denzel Washington as the controversial and influential radical member of the Nation of Islam. And what a supporting cast: Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Theresa Randle, James McDaniel, Wendell Pierce, Giancarlo Esposito, and Lee himself... If you’re looking for a place to land to watch some captivating entertainment on TV tonight, X marks the spot.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
25
 
 

Maybe the true test of a comic’s skill is just to let them do it without an audience or a laugh track... a few late-night hosts are passing that test...