Bruce Willis wasn’t a movie star when he made this 1988 action movie – but yippie-ki-yay, he sure was after it came out. And if you haven’t seen this movie in a while -- and hey, it’s been more than 25 years -- watch it, because it still holds up. Very, very well.

2014

Apr

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT By David Bianculli

Pablo Schreiber, who’s scored memorable supporting roles in both Orange Is the New Black and Lights Out, returns tonight in his creepy recurring role as the sociopath who attacked, abducted and tortured Benson (Mariska Hargitay). And tonight, he escapes from prison, and once again has Benson in his sights.

2014

Apr

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode has Nina (Annet Mahendru) training in ways to take, and defeat, a polygraph exam, because FBI agent Stan (Noah Emmerich), and his superiors, are beginning to have some trust issues. And with very good reason.

2014

Apr

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY By David Bianculli

How could any movie directed by George Cukor, and starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart, be anything but wonderful? Don’t worry: This 1940 romantic comedy is precisely that.

2014

Apr

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

The newest Marvel movie in the Avengers cycle, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, revealed a plot twist that is reverberating instantly within this ABC spinoff series – one of the benefits of corporate synergy and creative advance planning. So as the film revealed a dire internal threat to the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., tonight’s new episode of the ABC series picks up the same plot thread. And while the previous episode suggested that the turncoat from within was likely to be Saffron

2014

Apr

THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: GLAD ALL OVER, A GREAT PERFORMANCES SPECIAL By David Bianculli

This “British invasion” special looks at the Dave Clark Five, as well as other groups that rode the wave of Beatlemania in the Sixties and invaded the charts almost simultaneously. Clark’s group, in fact, was the next British group to be showcased on The Ed Sullivan Show after the Beatles’ legendarily successful three-week stint in February 1964. Check local listings.

2014

Apr

THE MINDY PROJECT By David Bianculli

Breaking Bad fans, take note: Anna Gunn, who played Skyler on that series, returns to prime time tonight, but in a much, much lighter role. In the second of two new Mindy Project episodes televised tonight, she plays an “OB/GYN to the stars,” who shows up to try and persuade Mindy to join her celebrity-fueled medical practice.

2014

Apr

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN: THE SERIES By David Bianculli

We’re getting closer and closer to the central focus of this season’s 10-part story: the moment when the bank robbers and their vacationing family hostages arrive at the same deadly place: a border bar occupied by vampires. Since the series already has been renewed for a second season, there will be more to From Dusk Till Dawn than just the vampire-club showdown – but for now, the rest, however fleshed out, is mere prelude.

2014

Apr

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: For the final episode of this penultimate season of Justified, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) has made a move intended to force one of the members of the Crowe family – either Michael Rapaport’s Daryl or Alicia Witt’s Wendy – to reveal the truth behind the attempted murder of Raylan’s boss, Art. Tonight, the results of that move bubble to the surface, and if everyone is left standing, I’ll be very, very surprised.

2014

Apr

CONAN GOES 'COSMO' By Linda Donovan

Conan took Team Coco to Dallas from 3/31 through 4/3 and we're sure the city will never be the same. During his time there he visited the headquarters of an international institution that started in Dallas about 50 years ago -- Mary Kay cosmetics...

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