Homeland has gotten stronger and stronger this season, and this week, Carrie (Claire Danes) gets increasingly central to the plot – well, to the plots, since her connections, and her long-time loyalties, are pulling her in two directions at once.

2017

Mar

FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN By David Bianculli

In tonight’s Episode 4 of Feud, Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are worried, in advance, about the critical reception they’ll be given upon the imminent release of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The actresses playing them in this excellent and delightful FX miniseries, Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, need not be similarly concerned. Come Emmy time this year, they’re both shoo-ins (or is it shoos-in?) to be nominated.

2017

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GIRLS By David Bianculli

This series has only a few episodes left, and Lena Dunham, both behind the scenes and in front of the camera, has saved her best for last. This season has been the best yet for Girls, and with Hannah recently learning of her pregnancy, these last few installments are likely to have even more importance, drama and resonance. Tonight, Hannah revisits the surfing instructor (Riz Ahmed) who is the father of her future child – if she has the child, which many of her friends are surprised she&rs

2017

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2017 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

The Elite Eight begin fighting tonight, with the winners of tonight’s two games moving on to prestigious Final Four. Both of tonight’s games are televised by TBS, beginning at 6 p.m. ET with the West’s No. 1-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs vs. No. 11 Xavier Musketeers, the only double-digit seed still competing. The Musketeers notched a thrilling victory against the No. 2-seeded Arizona Wildcats Thursday night, with fervid Xavier fan Bill Murray rooting them on from the stands. Watch f

2017

Mar

INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE By David Bianculli

Jeff Goldblum reprises his role, though Will Smith does not, in this 2016 sequel to the massive 1996 action film Independence Day, about aliens attacking the U.S. Twenty years later, this was the sequel…

2017

Mar

THE PINK PANTHER By David Bianculli

This 1963 movie, starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, was a film that still makes me laugh, a lot. But it also makes me a little wistful these days, because it was one of my late father’s favorite movies, and I remember the joy we had watching it together, first in the drive-in, then on TV. So I’m wondering: Are there movies whose personal impact and import, to you, are enhanced because of someone you saw, or associate, them with? If you don’t mind sharing

2017

Mar

PLANET EARTH II: "CITIES" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: Two episodes are shown tonight, back-to-back, to conclude BBC America’s powerful presentation of Planet Earth II. First up is this final installment in the series proper, called Cities, which looks at how untamed creatures have responded, and adapted, to their proximity with human civilization. I loved this episode – perhaps, in part, because I live in a New Jersey suburb with just enough woods and nearby woodland to have families of deer treating my yard as a comb

2017

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PLANET EARTH II: "THE MAKING OF" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: And finally, there’s this stand-alone episode of Planet Earth II, explaining how the nature documentary film crew captured some of its magnificent images. It’s a jaw-dropping episode on its own, but, to me, it adds to a very storied and tenure sub-genre of TV nature documentaries. The fabulous series NOVA, which is still on PBS, began its run with an episode I still remember fondly, and clearly: The Making of a Natural History Film, one of the first nature document

2017

Mar

‘TO WALK INVISIBLE: THE BRONTË SISTERS’ ON PBS EXPLORES THE REMARKABLE YET ROUGH LIFE OF THE AUTHORS By David Hinckley

The three Brontë sisters had a dark secret. They wrote stories. In early Victorian England, this was considered unladylike and downright unseemly...

2017

Mar

THE BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED By David Bianculli

Theater director Lonny Price, an original cast member of Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along, directs this documentary looking back at why that particular musical, with its tale told in chronologically reverse order, became a famous flop from Broadway’s reigning musical genius – and what has happened to the show, and the players, since. Price is seen here, along with original castmates Ann Morrison and Jim Walton. This slipped past me when Netflix added it to

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