June Foray was heard but not seen. Foray, who died Thursday in Los Angeles, just a few weeks short of her 100^th birthday, provided the voices for hundreds of animated television and film characters over a career that spanned 10 decades...

2017

Jul

FROM ‘DOWNTON ABBEY’ TO ‘CLAWS,’ A LOOK AT THE STRIDES WOMEN HAVE MADE ON THE SMALL SCREEN By Alex Strachan

Niecy Nash and Michelle Dockery come from vastly different worlds...

2017

Jul

TCA, DAY 3 – A&E HAS LOWE, LIFETIME HAS SMART, AND HALLMARK HAS A WHOLE LOT OF CHRISTMAS By Ed Bark

It's no brag, but again just fact when Hallmark Channel promises the "premier gala" of the summer Television Critics Association (TCA) "press tour."...

2017

Jul

THE PRINCESS BRIDE By David Bianculli

I’ve seen this movie dozens of times. Chances are, you’ve seen this movie dozens of times. But there are reasons to watch it all over again. For one thing, it’s been since 1987 that Wallace Shawn, as Vizzini, first hatched his scheme to kidnap Robin Wright’s Buttercup. That’s 30 years ago. Thirty years ago! Inconceivable!

2017

Jul

A DOUBLE LIFE By David Bianculli

Ronald Colman, TCM’s star of the month, continues to be saluted tonight, and the opening film, from 1947, is a particularly bold and unusual showcase. In it, he stars as an actor whose latest part, opposite an actress played by Signe Hasso, is the title role in Shakespeare’s Othello – a role that begins to consume him, and overtake him, even when he’s not performing the scenes. (You know what they say: Once you go black…) He begins to lose touch with reality, gets

2017

Jul

HOOTEN AND THE LADY By David Bianculli

This is the third episode of this British import – and, again, it’s mentioned because the Thursday night summertime TV options are so few and far between. So here’s the rundown, if you’re curious: Tonight the adventurers venture to Egypt, where they look for the long-lost tomb of Alexander the Great. It’s the only brush with Greatness this show is expected to offer.

2017

Jul

KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES By David Bianculli

This 2016 comedy stars Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher as a suburban couple whose neighborhood makes room for some astoundingly attractive and mysterious new neighbors: a glamorous couple played by Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot. The comedy comes from the growing suspicion that this new couple, the Joneses, may be up to something, and may be spies. And they are. Hamm, of course, comes from Mad Men, and has the 007-style era and panache down cold. But Gadot is just as confidently charismatic, whether s

2017

Jul

WHERE LARRY DAVID AND TV LARRY MEET, AND THE THIN RED LINE BETWEEN By Alex Strachan

When the line between a real-life comedian and the character he plays on television blurs, it should be no surprise when people draw connections between the two, wanted or unwanted...

2017

Jul

"T" CHANNELS – TBS, TRUTV, TNT – ROLL OUT UPCOMING SHOWS AT TCA By Ed Bark

Step right up to a sprawling, eclectic batch of TBS/TruTV/TNT presentations squeezed into a morning bloc Thursday during Turner Networks' no-space-wasted turn at the TCA summer "press tour"...

2017

Jul

AMAZON'S 'THE LAST TYCOON' ISN'T PERFECT, BUT CERTAINLY WORTH WATCHING By David Hinckley

Thought-provoking and melancholy, like all good F. Scott Fitzgerald stories, The Last Tycoon delivers a good summer watch...

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