Most of the college students in my Rowan University classes this term were not yet born when this Coen brothers movie was released in 1998. That was 22 years ago now, when Jeff Bridges starred as the cinema’s most iconic slacker detective. Dude!

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PIXAR DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

Two delightful full-length animated Pixar films are shown as a double feature tonight on Freeform. First, at 7:10 p.m. ET, is 2009’s Up, starring Ed Asner as a crotchety retiree, the kind of Clint Eastwoody guy who screams, “Get off my lawn!” – until he uses a bunch of balloons to lift his house off his own lawn (pictured). Then, at 9:15 p.m. ET, comes 2007’s Ratatouille, Brad Bird’s movie about a rat in Paris (played by Patton Os

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THE INVISIBLE MAN By David Bianculli

When Universal Pictures decided to re-reboot its classic horror franchises from the 1930s – featuring the iconic characters of Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy and the Wolf Man – their first time at bat was with the 2017 movie The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise. It was largely faithful to the overall narrative of the original film, with a screenplay by accomplished screenwriters David Koepp (Jurassic Park, the first Mission: Impossible) and Christopher McQua

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PEN15 By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 1 of PEN15 ended with a very touching, uncomfortable, poignant episode set at a high school dance, where the young teens played by series co-creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle endured small and large humiliations before reconnecting with the strength of their formerly fractured friendship. The bold thing about PEN15 is that, unlike other teen TV comedies from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis to The Wonder Years, the lead chara

2020

Sep

DESPITE ITS HEAVY HITTERS, 'RATCHED' FAILS TO HIT A HOME RUN By David Hinckley

Ryan Murphy and Sarah Paulson apparently had so much fun doing the monster mash in American Horror Story that they've reunited for an encore...

2020

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RATCHED By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky co-created this new Netflix series, a prequel of sorts to the Ken Kesey novel, and subsequent movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But instead of giving us earlier insights into the character of R. P. McMurphy, the young rebellious protagonist played in the 1975 film by Jack Nicholson, Ratched hones in on the story’s antagonist instead. That would be Nurse Ratched, played in the film by Louise Fletcher – who,

2020

Sep

WILMORE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: As Senior Black Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Wilmore was a very funny, very outspoken standout. As host of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, Wilmore was brilliantly vocal, and way ahead of his time, on such issues as the historic insult and racial subtext of the Confederate flag and what became the Black Lives Matter movement. If Comedy Central executives don’t regret cancelling Wilmore’s show after a single season, they ou

2020

Sep

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Maher is back in the studio, even if some of his guests, and almost all of his audience members, are not. But those guests, this week, include former Trump lawyer, and felon, Michael Cohen – and actress and activist Jane Fonda.

2020

Sep

LOST IN AMERICA By David Bianculli

Albert Brooks co-wrote (with Monica Mcgowan Johnson), directed, and starred in this 1985 comedy, which is one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen – and contains almost as many memorable and quotable punch lines as The Princess Bride. “Oh, you mean the $100,000 box!” “…Things with toast.” “Twenty-two. Twenty-two. Twenty-two…” You have to watch Lost in America to learn why these lines are so hilariou

2020

Sep

DAVID LYNCH DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

Two David Lynch movies are shown after midnight by TCM this evening. At 2 a.m. ET, the weirdness begins with 1990’s Wild at Heart, starring Laura Dern as a wild child attracted to Elvis-y rebel Nicolas Cage (pictured). Then, at 4:15 a.m. ET, it’s 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the Twin Peaks prequel that features a lot of Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer, and a lot of other familiar faces from the TV show, but also makes room for such new Pea

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