The same way television directors often complain about the difficulty of paring down an episode down to 21 or 42 minutes, it's a challenge to identify only five shows as particularly promising for the upcoming TV season...

2019

Sep

BROKEN BLOSSOMS By David Bianculli

This 1919 D.W. Griffith silent movie is now 100 years old – and getting a very rare prime-time showcase from TCM. Unlike many epic films by this director, Broken Blossoms is an intimate story on a small scale, centered on only three characters: a young girl, the boxer father who beats her, and the friendly Chinese man who befriends her. The film is a drama opposing prejudice, with audiences meant to empathize with the Chinese immigrant, but in the telling of this tale cinematical

2019

Sep

SHERMAN'S SHOWCASE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is titled “White Music,” which may or may not be an expanded version of this show’s ersatz ad for a vintage music collection, “Now That’s What I Call White Music,” a collection of music the announcer says sounds black but is sung by whites, like The Police’s “Roxanne” or anything by Steely Dan. As the ad explains, it’s “FUBT – For Us, By Them.” Either way, I’ll be watching, too – and

2019

Sep

THE THREE MUSKETEERS By David Bianculli

Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers has been made into an action swashbuckler film about once every generation or so, with movie versions produced in 2011, 1993, 1973, 1948, and 1935. But before any of those films, and others like it, there was this silent version, from 1921, starring the original cinematic swashbuckler, Douglas Fairbanks, as D’Artagnan.

2019

Sep

MAYANS M.C. By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: I’m not into this spinoff of Sons of Anarchy very much – but if you are, and if you’ve been waiting for the new season to begin, your wait is at an end. It arrives tonight… on two wheels, of course. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower and Mike Hughes’ Open Mike.

2019

Sep

CONAN WITHOUT BORDERS: GREENLAND By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Some ideas just seem hilarious as soon as you hear the general concept. Like the Bob & Ray radio interview in which the program’s guest is the president of the Slow Talkers of America. Or, as part of tonight’s latest special in which Conan O’Brien takes his TV crew and warped sense of humor to a foreign country, he goes to Greenland – and attempts to deliver the weather report. I’m laughing already – maybe because I remember when, on Conan’s

2019

Sep

THE SHOP By David Bianculli

I’ve seen every edition of LeBron James’ talk show, The Shop, thus far, and always come away impressed by the level of conversation, and honesty, covered on this program as they talk about sports, celebrity, expectations, and work ethic. If you’ve yet to listen in, please give James and his guests a try.

2019

Sep

WHAT HELPS YOU IDENTIFY WITH 'MAYANS M.C.' By Mike Hughes

Why is it that we so easily relate to Mayans M.C., which starts its second season Tuesday...

2019

Sep

SPEND SOME TIME THIS SEASON WITH 'MAYANS M.C.' By David Hinckley

Like its parent tale, Sons of Anarchy, Mayans M.C. doesn’t get the respect it deserves...

2019

Sep

UNTOUCHABLE By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: The first person who tells her story, in this documentary about the Harvey Weinstein sexual scandals, gives her account with such passion, such clarity, and such powerful pauses, that the drama is intense almost from the very start – and never lets down. The early history of the Weinstein company may seem only like prologue, but the film circles back to make a strong case for how complicit Hollywood was in not only empowering the mogul, but protecting and enabling him

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