From tonight’s new edition, two examples of how far afield this series goes in pursuit of its engrossing sports stories: One is a profile of Chechan leader and MMA figure Ramzan Kadyrov, and the other is an examination of global warming, a.k.a. climate change, on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, beloved by divers and other aquatic sports enthusiasts.

2017

Jul

IN MEMORY OF THE MAYOR OF QUAHOG By Eric Gould

Family Guy has released a tribute reel in memory of former Batman! star Adam West (1928-2017), who played a monumentally self-effacing version of himself as cartoon mayor of Peter Griffin’s fictional hometown of Quahog, Rhode Island... Family Guy is going ahead with three more episodes that West had already recorded parts for...

2017

Jul

DR. ZHIVAGO By David Bianculli

Here’s another of director David Lean’s opulent period epics: From 1965, his lush telling of the famous Russian romantic novel, starring Omar Sharif as Dr. Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago, and Julie Christie as Lara Antipova – neither of whom, at this date, has been confirmed to be in that meeting with the President’s son at Trump Tower. Julie Christie, in this film, is especially and memorably alluring.

2017

Jul

WILL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode has Will (Laurie Davidson) resolving to write more substantive plays, and to please himself and his muse rather than the rowdy theater crowd attending his plays. And as we know with the works of William Shakespeare, where there’s a Will, there’s a way.

2017

Jul

PASSENGERS By David Bianculli

This 2016 movie stars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, is set on a spaceship in the future, and plays with the same central theme as part of Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey: What if the computer-monitored hibernation schedule of astronauts traveling across lengthy distances of space were altered, for mysterious reasons?

2017

Jul

P.O.V.: "PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW" By David Bianculli

Princess Shaw isn’t some foreign potentate. She’s Samantha Montgomery, a New Orleans singer who used YouTube to launch herself to prominence. This 2015 documentary explores how – and why, in this new media landscape, her success matters. Check local listings.

2017

Jul

LOADED By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This co-production from England basically is a British version of Silicon Valley, and tells about four tech wizards who become sudden millionaires after their computer-game invention gets purchased, and absorbed, by a wealthy investor (familiar face Mary McCormack). For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2017

Jul

THE THREE MUSKETEERS By David Bianculli

This 1973 action comedy is directed by Richard Lester, who both captured and unleashed the Beatles in his 1964 movie A Hard Day’s Night. Here, he has fun with playful action sequences, with recreating a period by focusing on its muddy and messy as well as its glamorous and regal – and by giving his actors lots of room to play, and very playfully, too. That goes not only for such perfectly cast supporting players as Faye Dunaway, Christopher Lee, Raquel Welch, Roy Kinnear, and Charlto

2017

Jul

AMC LAUNCHES AN ENTERTAINING TECH COMEDY WITH ‘LOADED’ By David Hinckley

You could look on Loaded as a good-faith attempt by AMC to make up for every dark show with which it has cost us a good night’s sleep over the last two decades...

2017

Jul

I SPY WHILE WATCHING AN OLD EPISODE OF 'I SPY' — R.I.P., MARTIN LANDAU, AND LIVE ON IN POSTERITY By Alex Strachan

Not much more can be said about Martin Landau that hasn’t been said by others, more eloquent and profound than anything I could say...

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