Indiana Jones would have a good time working alongside Phryne Fisher. Their kindred spirit, figurative though it may be, shines through one more time in Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears...

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STEPHEN SONDHEIM BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION By David Bianculli

Today is the day Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim turns 90 years old. Part of the planned celebration, before the current pandemic, was to be today’s official opening night of the inventive Broadway revival of his 1970 musical Company. The central role of Bobby, up to this point always played by a man, was now named Bobbie, and to be played by a woman: the marvelous Katrina Lenk. But last week, Broadway was shut down. So tonight, the streaming site BroadwayHD honors Son

2020

Mar

FROZEN By David Bianculli

If you subscribe to Disney+, you can now see Frozen 2 long ahead of its scheduled streaming premiere – a gift to families in this coronavirus lockdown period. And you should subscribe, by the way. If you’re in that self-isolating mode, and have young children in the house, Disney+ ought to be on the list of essentials, right up there with toilet paper and hand soap. Anyway, the original Frozen animated movie, now seven years old, is shown tonight on Freeform. Whic

2020

Mar

ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST By David Bianculli

In this week’s new episode, Zoey reveals her hidden power to someone new. The episode is called “Zoey’s Extraordinary Confession,” and you know the synonym for confessing, right? When someone confesses in an old gangster movie, it’s known as singing. And here we go…

2020

Mar

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

A prominent character died last week – and it’s likely that, in tonight’s new episode, there are more deaths to come. And more undeaths, too.

2020

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WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

Last week’s Season 3 premiere ended with Caleb, the hapless human played by Aaron Paul, coming to the aid of a badly wounded Dolores, the ruthless android warrior played by Evan Rachel Wood. Tonight, they team up – but for what? And against whom? Meanwhile, the show’s attention shifts from the outside “real world” back to the park. But it’s no vacation.

2020

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HOMELAND By David Bianculli

On Homeland in this final season, things have gotten more and more dire, people are dying quickly and unexpectedly, and everywhere you turn, the news is bad, and the government is in chaos. Isn’t it nice to find a TV show where you can escape and forget about your real-world troubles for an hour?

2020

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week, when Larry David was preparing to open his “spite store,” Latte Larry’s, Ted Danson popped in for a sneak preview – and was impressed not only by the coffee shop’s tables that didn’t wobble, but also by the fact that every table was equipped with a bottle of hand sanitizer. Both these features made it into Larry’s show-within-the-show “commercials” for Latte Larry’s. And these shows were filmed before

2020

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DARK PHOENIX By David Bianculli

This 2019 movie entry in the Marvel X-Men universe was a relative disappointment, creatively as well as at the box office. The original comic-book arc on which it’s based, Chris Claremont’s “Dark Phoenix Saga” in which powerful mental mutant Jean Grey turns evil, is one of the most famous narratives in Marvel history. So getting it right should have been more of a priority, but Dark Phoenix, to succeed, might have required being darker than the Marvel

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