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2014
Apr
6
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This year, Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) finally gets to reach for power rather than cower to it – by embarking on an ambitious campaign for the presidency of the United States. But what sounds like a liberating experience turns out to have a new, different set of humiliations of its own. For a fuller review, see Bianculii’s Blog.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
5
 
 
The Final Four arrives on TV tonight, but this year it arrives with a unique twist. You can watch the same action on three different networks – but hear it reported by three different announcing teams. TBS carries both games, beginning at 6 p.m. ET, with the standard TV reporting team – but you can also watch on TNT and TruTV, where those networks will show the same visual feed, but turn over the audio to the respective home-team announcers. (That was the way my dad used to watch Mia
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
5
 
 
This 2013 reboot of the Superman franchise stars Henry Cavill as Clark Kent and his costumed superhero alter ego, with more familiar faces in many of the supporting roles. Diane Lane and Kevin Costner play his adoptive parents, the Kents, Laurence Fishburne plays Daily Planet editor Perry White (for the first time in this franchise: a black White!), Russell Crowe plays alien birth father Jor-El, and Amy Adams plays Lois Lane.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
5
 
 
This 1973 movie is more than 40 years old now, yet it still ranks as one of the scariest movies ever made. Watch, and see…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
5
 
 
The day before HBO premieres Silicon Valley, its new sitcom series taking aim at, among other things, a California corporation very much like Google, sister network Cinemax presents this 2013 comedy that visits the real Google, with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson reteaming to play very atypical interns competing in that tech-savvy business environment.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
5
 
 
Tonight’s guest host on this new edition: Anna Kendrick. Musical guest: Pharrell Williams.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
5
 
 
There always have been spies and likely always will be --and AMC’s new drama series Turn, premiering at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, goes back in time to the Revolutionary War, to the formation of this country’s first spy ring...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
4
 
 
Just think of what Steven Spielberg could do with modern computer technology if he made this movie today, instead of in 1977. Then forget you ever thought that, because this fanciful film, full of wonder and awe and imagination, is pretty much perfect the way it is. Richard Dreyfuss stars as one of several people who witness something mysterious, then can’t stop thinking about it – the “it” being an encounter with life from another planet, and the strong desire to experie
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
4
 
 
Coincidentally, just as BBC America is televising one of the most benign movie portraits ever made of extraterrestrial visitations and manipulations, Showtime is premiering one of the most frightening. Keri Russell of The Americans and Josh Hamilton play the heads of a typical suburban family whose behavior slowly, but very surely, becomes anything but typical – and for a very good, yet very bad, reason.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
4
 
 
James Naughton isn’t the first singer with the idea of doing a project devoted entirely to the songs and lyrics of Randy Newman. That would be Harry Nilsson, whose LP Nilsson Sings Newman, with Newman himself providing piano accompaniment, was released in 1970, and remains a stunningly beautiful showcase of singing and songwriting. But Naughton, who also is an actor, is no stranger to Newman’s works, either. He’s sung from Newman’s songbooks in his own intimate cabaret ap