Kirsten Dunst’s character became much bolder last week – seizing the day by seizing the microphone at a high-profile sales convention, and offering herself as the new publicity director and exercise guru at the local water park amusement center. And in Central Florida, she wants to find even higher mountains to climb – which in Florida, topographically speaking, is not easy.

2019

Sep

HEAR THE SONGS THAT INFLUENCED THE BURNS' DOCUMENTARY – 'COUNTRY MUSIC: LIVE AT THE RYMAN' By Mike Hughes

Before the new season starts, there's already encouraging news...

2019

Sep

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS By David Bianculli

This 2018 period drama is a result of powerful pairings both in front of the camera and in the writers’ room. John Guy, one of the writers here, is the author of Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, so he knows an awful lot about the Scottish monarch’s attempt to overthrow her cousin, Elizabeth I, as the ruler of England. The screenplay is by Beau Willimon, who created the Netflix version of House of Cards, so he knows an awful lot about power grabs and p

2019

Sep

SOUNDER By David Bianculli

Both Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield received Oscar nominations for their roles in this 1972 film about African-American sharecroppers in the Deep South during the Depression – the first time two people of color were nominated from the same movie. They play a proud couple trying to get by, and advance their prospects, in a highly prejudiced environment. And Kevin Hooks, who plays their young son, was at the start of a still-illustrious career. Before the Seventies were through, he had gone

2019

Sep

THE TRUE STORY OF ELI COHEN, 'THE SPY,' ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley

The new Netflix series The Spy takes the novel tack of opening with its own spoiler...

2019

Sep

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week, I’m not even that interested in Bill Maher’s lineup of guests. I just want to watch his monologue, and see how he reacts to Donald Trump, Presidential Weatherman.

2019

Sep

COUPLES THERAPY By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Remember the excellent HBO drama series In Treatment, in which Gabriel Byrne played a therapist counseling a series of patients in intimate, often intense concentrated sessions? Well, this new Showtime series is similar, except that both its therapist and patients are real, working their way through actual conflicts and issues, as cameras and microphones record their progress, or lack thereof. This may sound like a paradoxical position for a TV critic, but my personal

2019

Sep

GOOD TALK WITH ANTHONY JESELNIK By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Comedy Central talk show is hosted by Anthony Jeselnik, a young comic with a fine sense of timing, a deadpan demeanor, and an aggressively outrageous comic approach, one that prides on going to unexpected places and punch lines. The question, as always when a comic shifts for the first time into the role of host, whether they will be as adapt at supporting and listening to their guests as to searching for their next opportunity for a one-liner. Those are different skill

2019

Sep

CELEBRATING VALERIE HARPER THIS WEEKEND By Mike Hughes

Memories of Valerie Harper – fun ones, funny ones – will reach digital TV over the next few days...

2019

Sep

TCM SPECIAL THEME: JAMES BOND By David Bianculli

Every Thursday this month, TCM is devoting its prime-time and late-night lineup to presenting, in chronological order, the films featuring British secret agent James Bond. Tonight, TCM presents the first five films in the Bond canon. (Too bad there wasn’t room for two more, because then the tribute would have begun with 007 movies, instead of 005.) Tonight’s movies all are from the Sean Connery era, and the lineup includes the best Bond movie ever made. Dr. No, from 1962, b

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