DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Including both music and personal moments, this new documentary spends time with singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, one of the few performers to substantially increase her following during this pandemic year.

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WANDAVISION By David Bianculli

Once a week, Disney+ presents a new episode of this latest Marvel TV series. Today is the penultimate episode, and it’s the installment that explains everything – the weird and shifting TV “world” of WandaVision, how Vision has risen from the dead to occupy this sitcom fantasy setting, and, as in Blue Velvet or Twin Peaks, what hidden evil lurks beneath the surface banality. When WandaVision premiered, I was hoping it would take the

2021

Feb

TOM & JERRY By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: One of the original cat-and-mouse cartoons is revived for a new generation., with a new animated film (and live-action hybrid) that presents their origin story as household adversaries. As always, bet on the mouse. But I’d like to point out this one little question, which has gnawed at me for decades now: What’s with all the mouse holes in the floorboards? Were apartments and homes so overridden with rodents in the 1940s that it was accepted as commonplace that mice l

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Feb

THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: The script for this new movie biography is predictably by the book, and step by step, starting with an interview that launches a movie-length flashback. The production values are less than lavish, also – but forgive all that to watch Andra Day as jazz legend Billie Holiday, who does an excellent job approximating both her singing and speaking voice. Add this portrayal to Diana Ross’ raw performance in Lady Sings the Blues and Audra McDonald’s even rawe

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THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE By David Bianculli

This movie was made in 1962, and still is capable of haunting you after you watch it. Laurence Harvey and Frank Sinatra star as former prisoners of war who struggle to escape their past – but don’t overlook the women in this drama, played by Janet Leigh (post-Psycho) and Angela Lansbury.

2021

Feb

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Among tonight’s scheduled guests: former Fox News and NBC host Megyn Kelly (seen here in an appearance from last year), and New York Times opinion columnist Ezra Klein.

2021

Feb

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Among tonight’s scheduled guests: Hugh Bonneville from Downton Abbey, actress Rosamund Pike, and TV chef icon Gordon Ramsay, who smiles more in one appearance on The Graham Norton Show than in entire seasons on his own coking competition programs.

2021

Feb

TARGETED BY THE GOVERNMENT: 'THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY' By David Hinckley

The United States vs. Billie Holiday, a new film available Friday on Hulu, has all the subtlety of a lynching...

2021

Feb

PUNKY BREWSTER By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: In 1984, Soleil Moon Frye began a successful run as a child TV star, as the title character of NBC’s Punky Brewster. Young Punky was spunky, wore pigtails and mismatched sneakers, and had a beloved golden retriever. After the premiere, I never saw it again, though it was part of NBC’s Saved By the Bell kid TV wave. And since that series has been revived and updated by Peacock for a new generation, today Punky Brewster follows suit. Frye&

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