Part 2. More Vladimir Putin in conversation with Oliver Stone. I wasn’t particularly enthused about this prospect before watching Part 1 – and I’m even less enthused now that I’ve seen the firs installment. David Frost’s famous 1970s TV interviews with Richard Nixon got better as they went along – but I suspect that’s not the gold standard to be employed here. But even this type of interview situation can elicit insights, especially about character. Watc

2017

Jun

FRONTLINE: "TERROR IN EUROPE" By David Bianculli

Frontline and ProPublica, in an intensely timely documentary, examine the rise of, and reaction to, what’s being called Islamic terrorism in Europe. Check local listings.

2017

Jun

HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THIS SEASON OF ‘FARGO’ By Alex Strachan

Sometimes, while watching a truly inspired hour of television, one is moved on an intensely personal, hard-to-explain level that defies easy categorization...

2017

Jun

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S By David Bianculli

Audrey Hepburn month on TCM continues, filling every Monday in June with her memorable motion pictures. The evening starts tonight with one of her most famous of all: 1961’s light take on Truman Capote’s story about the lighthearted Holly Golightly (Capote referred to her loose lifestyle as that of an “American geisha”). Watch for Hepburn’s effortless on air-charm, and Mickey Rooney’s horrendous portrayal of a Japanese businessman, and listen for the introduct

2017

Jun

2017 NBA CHAMPIONSHIPS By David Bianculli

The Cleveland Cavaliers, with its record-setting dominant bursts in Game 4, fended off elimination at the hands of the Golden State Warriors, and forced tonight’s Game 5. The Warriors still are ahead 3-1 in the series, and have home-court advantage for tonight’s game – but the Warriors had a 3-1 advantage in the series last year, and the Cavs managed to take the championship anyway. Expect the Warriors to start tonight’s game with as much determination and ferocity as the

2017

Jun

THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Tonight through Thursday, Showtime presents four one-hour excerpts from filmmaker Oliver Stone’s self-described non-confrontational interviews with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The interviews were filmed in Russia between July 2015 and February 2017, so Megyn Kelly’s recent interview with Putin for NBC was more timely. And while Stone’s approach to talking to Putin may indeed lead to some small character revelations, it’s not a series of interviews

2017

Jun

SUPERHUMAN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Based on a special that apparently pleased the Fox executives, this new series is a competition series with a difference: Each challenge is a specifically designed task, concocted to both showcase and challenge the peculiar and unusual skill sets of a given contestant. Imagine a toothpick-counting contest with Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man, and you have the general idea… Kal Penn hosts.

2017

Jun

BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode ended with Mike Ehrmentraut shaking hands with Gus Fring – forging a key link that will, in time (and in Breaking Bad), lead to their unlikely and sometimes uneasy partnership in the drug trade. Last week’s episode also showed Jimmy McGill painting himself out of a financial corner by becoming “slippin’ Jimmy,” another famous step in his evolution, or devolution, to the amoral Saul Goodman. Like Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul is one of the

2017

Jun

MY FAIR LADY By David Bianculli

Here’s another Audrey Hepburn classic film portrayal tonight. It’s 1964’s My Fair Lady, with Hepburn as the cockney Eliza Doolittle, selected by snobby phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) as the “before” he can mold into a high-society “after.” And in this Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, he succeeds. George Cukor’s direction helps a lot, as do the costumes by Cecil Beaton.

2017

Jun

ANGIE TRIBECA By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: For tonight’s Season 3 finale of this freewheeling, very funny TBS police sitcom, series star Rashida Jones makes room for yet another celebrity guest star. This time it’s Peggy Lipton, formerly a TV policewoman of her own, on ABC’s iconic Mod Squad, as well as one of the stars reprising her Twin Peaks role in the current Showtime reboot, Twin Peaks: The Return. Tonight, on Angie Tribeca, she visits the coroner’s office – and, by visiting Angie Tribec

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