In 1939, five years after making this cinematic adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson pirate adventure novel, Victor Fleming would go on to direct two movies that are even more classic: The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind. (Not bad, for a same-year twofer.) But you can see his visual flair, and love of both spectacle and character, in this movie as well. Young Jackie Cooper plays Jim Hawkins, the boy who becomes embroiled in adventure aboard a pirate ship captained by Long John Silv

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GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: "LA BOHEME" By David Bianculli

This particular performance of Puccini’s La Boheme, recorded in April as part of the transmitted-live-to-theaters worldwide HD live opera simulcast, has a behind-the-scenes story as dramatic as anything on stage. This opera’s staging by Franco Zefferelli is one of the most popular and most-repeated productions in the Met canon – but on this particular occasion, there were unforeseen problems. The leading lady, Romanian soprano Anita Hartig, came down with a bad case of the flu

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Jun

BLUE JASMINE By David Bianculli

Woody Allen made a later-in-career mini-masterpiece with 2011’s Midnight in Paris, then turned around and made 2012’s quietly charming To Rome with Love and then, in 2013, this film, for which Cate Blanchett won a well-deserved Oscar. But hers is only one of several impressive performances, some of them somewhat unexpected. British actress Sally Hawkins, as the less affected sister to Blanchett’s high-strung Jasmine, nails her American role like she’s channeling Sarah Sil

2014

Jun

GIRL MEETS WORLD By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is a next-generation Disney Channel sequel to ABC’s Boy Meets World, which was very popular with a generation just now old enough to start having kids of their own and gather them in front of the TV set – if people still do that sort of thing these days. Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel, who starred in that 1993-2000 series as Cory and Topanga, are back in the same roles – this time as spouses, and parents of a teen girl, played by Rowan Blanchard, who takes

2014

Jun

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

One of Bill Maher’s guests tonight is a second-generation Hollywood creative force: Max Brooks, the author whose book inspired the Brad Pitt movie World War Z, and whose latest work is a graphic novel telling the true story of the Harlem Hellfighters, a largely forgotten black regiment fighting in World War I. Max Brooks is an interesting writer, and by all accounts a nice guy, in his own right – but he also happens to the son of proud papa Mel Brooks, one of our favorite people here

2014

Jun

RUSTY TIGER, BURNING BRIGHT: WOODS IS BACK, AND GOLF TV IS THRILLED By Gerald Jordan

A rusty Tiger Woods is better than no Tiger Woods at all. For 109 days, golf fans have awaited word from on high. Will he return this year? Will he ever return? And those are just the network bosses...

2014

Jun

MAKING POP OUT OF OP-ART By Eric Gould

The band OK Go has a reputation for creating amazing single-take productions for their music videos. Now, they've outdone themselves with this stunning one-shot choreographed adventure for their new video...

2014

Jun

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

The third and final game played by the U.S. team in Group G, the so-called “Group of Death” because of its competitive toughness, is televised by ESPN today at noon ET, preceded by a 30-minute pregame show. The previous U.S. game was a thriller down to the last minute – and beyond, since it was in the final minute of bonus time that a goal by Portugal robbed the U.S. of victory, and an automatic trip to the knockout round. Now the U.S., like Germany, has to play today’s g

2014

Jun

2014 WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

The first game shown today on ESPN2 is Group G’s Portugal vs. Ghana. Fans with a rooting interest in the U.S. should back Portugal in this game, because the U.S., even with a loss to Germany, probably will emerge with the edge in the goal-differential tiebreaker. Both of these teams, though, need Germany to win, and many other things to happen, before they can move on. Then, at 4 p.m. ET in Group H, Algeria plays Russia. Algeria advances if it wins, while Russia has to win this game, plus

2014

Jun

THE SIXTIES: "A LONG MARCH TO FREEDOM" By David Bianculli

Part 5. A Long March to Freedom examines and recounts the civil rights battle as it exploded in the 1960s – a tall order, and one which already has sparked an excellent documentary series of its own (PBS’s Eyes on the Prize). But The Sixties, thus far, has found a way to mine local TV footage to look at old stories in new ways, so expect the same here.

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