Royal Liverpool Golf Club at Hoylake last presented The Open in 2006, when the golfer known worldwide by one name – Tiger – won. This year is different. Royal Liverpool is surprisingly green, and Tiger is covered in rust...

2014

Jul

ROBERT OSBORNE'S MOVIE PICKS By David Bianculli

For 20 fabulous years now, Robert Osborne has served as primary host of Turner Classic Movies, establishing, like the network he represents, an impeccable and reliable reputation for both class and classics. Usually, Osborne presents movies built around the themes and tastes of others – but tonight, he presents his own movie picks, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with 1961’s Fanny (pictured), a romantic comedy-drama starring Leslie Caron as a fishmonger’s daughter in pre-WWII Marseille.

2014

Jul

EXTANT By David Bianculli

Tonight’s second episode of this new CBS series is titled “Extinct,” but that could be misleading: the story line seems to be heading towards a new life beginning, not an old one ending. In this hour, Sam (Camryn Manheim) gives Molly (Halle Berry) an ultrasound – the results of which could confirm Molly’s very baffling suspicions, and eerie nightmare visions, about being impregnated while on a year-long solo space flight. Let’s hope tonight’s episode is

2014

Jul

THE DIVIDE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new WE tv series was two years in the making – and originally was made as a series pilot for AMC, which reportedly passed on the series in favor of the much less compelling Low Winter Sun. In time, though, AMC’s loss became WE tv’s gain, because the sister network (along with IFC and Sundance, others under the AMC Networks umbrella) continued to develop The Divide, eventually positioning it as its first original scripted drama. It’s a big step for WE

2014

Jul

THE BRIDGE By David Bianculli

In this second episode of Season 2, a bizarre new murder scene attracts the attention, once again, of lawmakers on both sides of the border, and our heroes (played by Diane Kruger and Demian Bichir) are back in business. The murder site in question involves a taxidermist – and we all remember, the last time that happened, what kind of killer was encountered. A veritable Psycho…

2014

Jul

VANISHING POINT By David Bianculli

This 1971 film was a counterculture classic of sorts, but also a straight-out action film that made room for an extended car chase that spread out over four Western states. Barry Newman stars as a talented driver with a need for speed, and with an increasingly long posse of cop cars on his tail. The reason? He’s made a bet that he can deliver a 1970 Dodge Charger R/T from Denver to San Francisco in 15 hours – and thanks to “Super Soul,” the deejay played by Cleavon Little

2014

Jul

MEL BROOKS: THE TV WORTH WATCHING INTERVIEW, TAKE 3 By David Bianculli

Mel Brooks recently turned 88, but still juggles as many ongoing projects as Ken Burns. This month alone, he’s popping up on TCM, appearing at a Hollywood salute to Sid Caesar, and hatching plans for… well, you have to read it to believe it… [CLICK TO READ IMPORTANT UPDATE]

2014

Jul

THE HOTWIVES OF ORLANDO By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new comedy series is an extended parody of reality TV’s Real Housewives franchise – an idea for a lampoon that was done by Saturday Night Live years ago, and seems not only ripe for ridicule, but overripe. Yet The Hotwives of Orlando starts out with a pilot that not only skewers the structure and stereotypes of the genre, but does so with a playful comedy cast. Included in the mix: former SNL player Casey Wilson (as trophy wife Tawny, whose charity of choice is

2014

Jul

THE BLACK SWAN By David Bianculli

Consider this 1942 swashbuckling classic an early precursor of Pirates of the Caribbean. The setting is 17th-century Jamaica, and the most charismatic pirate in this Caribbean movie is played by Tyrone Power – with Maureen O’Hara playing an abducted noblewoman who becomes an initially reluctant piece of his pirate booty. So to speak.

2014

Jul

MATADOR By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Here comes El Rey’s second original series – and this one is a modern take, and spin, on the old I Spy concept of having a globally competing athlete working undercover as a spy. That Sixties classic used the world of tennis as a cover, but Matador uses football. Not American football – world football, what we in the U.S. commonly call soccer. Gabriel Luna stars as Tony Bravo, a gifted athlete who’s drafted by CIA operative Annie Mason (Nicky Whelan, of S

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