Traditionally the best, and most proudly patriotic, of the evening’s July 4 festivities, this live concert from Washington, D.C., this year, is scheduled to include Kelli O’Hara (one of my favorite Broadway musical stars, and a repeat performer at this event, seen here in 2011), as well as Frankie Valli and the Muppets. Let’s hope those last two acts sing together. Check local listings.

2014

Jul

THE CANDIDATE By David Bianculli

Robert Redford could make almost any movie he wanted after 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid upped his profile, but almost immediately, he started making movies that spoke to him personally for one reason or another. In 1972, he made two such films: Jeremiah Johnson, the story of a mountain man in Utah that utilized the rugged natural beauty that would later house Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, and The Candidate, in which he played a charismatic politician with a seemingly

2014

Jul

MAE WEST FILM SALUTE By David Bianculli

Five films starring the outrageous Mae West are shown by TCM tonight, starting with a doubleheader of movies from 1933 in which, playing a knowing, leering femme fatale, she starred opposite a young Cary Grant. The first, I’m No Angel, starts at 8 p.m. ET, followed at 9:45 p.m. ET by She Done Him Wrong. Belle of the Nineties, from 1934, is up next, and the salute ends at 2:15 a.m. ET with 1943’s The Heat’s On – but don’t miss, at 12:45 a.m. ET, the biggest classic i

2014

Jul

BEDAZZLED By David Bianculli

This 2000 comedy, directed by Harold Ramis, is a very loose remake of the 1967 comedy starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, which itself was a very loose play on Faust and other devil-made-me-do it classics. In this version, Cook’s part of the satanic schemer who grants wishes that turn out horribly is played by Elizabeth Hurley, who fills out the role very nicely. Very, very nicely indeed. Brendan Fraser plays her poor pawn, and Frances O’Connor has one of the best roles – mor

2014

Jul

RECTIFY By David Bianculli

It took the first two episodes of Season 2 for the quiet protagonist of this show, Aden Young’s Daniel, to awaken from his coma, after the brutal beating that he endured at the cliffhanger ending of Season 1. And now, after the touching reunion with his mother and sister at his hospital bed that ended last week’s episode, Aden is once again conscious. But since he had no direction before, once being suddenly released after 19 years in prison, in what direction will he be heading now?

2014

Jul

NY MED By David Bianculli

Tonight’s second episode of this year’s NY Med, ABC’s excellent medical documentary miniseries, is the one that first made me cry when I previewed the batch of new shows. Watch for yourself, and you’ll see why – and it’s not because of some terrible fate befalling some patient. It’s because of the love and dedication demonstrated throughout the hour. Tonight’s cases include a couple victimized by a brutal home invasion, and a young Marine who makes

2014

Jul

JAWS By David Bianculli

I don’t consider it summer, officially, until 1) school is out, 2) the weather is oppressively hot, and 3) Jaws is televised once again. And here it is, just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water: Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic, a self-assured thriller that is equally parts primal tension and charming character acting. Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw, playing off one another, are especially delightful. And Shaw’s late-night monologue about why he’ll never

2014

Jul

PLAY MISTY FOR ME By David Bianculli

In 1971, Clint Eastwood starred in this melodrama about a disc jockey’s overzealous female fan – but he took the leading role only in exchange for being allowed to direct the film as well. This was Eastwood’s first foray behind the camera… a side trip that turned out to be especially fulfilling. Meanwhile, this movie, in and of itself, is an early prototype for Fatal Attraction, and features Jessica Walter (much later, a scene-stealer in Arrested Development) as an obses

2014

Jul

THE OUTSIDERS By David Bianculli

S. E. Hinton’s treasured youth novel was directed for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola, who gets extra points for casting his story about rival gangs in the Sixties. Tom Cruise and Rob Lowe (pictured) star, as do Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez and Diane Lane. Oh, and Tom Waits, too.

2014

Jul

BEETLEJUICE By David Bianculli

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Say his name three times, and he really will appear – so long as you say it at 9 p.m. ET, when your TV is tuned to ABC Family. But go ahead and do it, because this comedy film starring Michael Keaton, while now more than 25 years old, remains a Tim Burton-directed hoot.

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