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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2015
Jul
18
THE CANDIDATE By David Bianculli
 
 
In this excellent 1972 political drama, Robert Redford plays the title role – a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California, who decides he has no chance of winning so he runs an increasingly honest campaign. Are you watching, 2016 presidential candidates? Many of you should be…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
18
HANNIBAL By David Bianculli
 
 
NEW NIGHT: In its final season, Hannibal is being treated even more ignominiously than before. This week, without much warning, it was moved from its Thursday time slot and, beginning tonight, banished to Saturday – with the episode where both Hannibal and Will are captured, chained and being prepared for dinner. And not as guests, but as entrees. By the way, if you’re a fan of Aquarius, it’s been given the same banished-to-Saturday treatment. You can find it at 9 p.m. ET, begi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
18
OUIJA By David Bianculli
 
 
This 2014 horror film is about a group of teens who gather around a supposedly haunted Ouija board, and unexpectedly summon some very nasty spirits. It’s fitting that this thriller is called Ouija: Based on its plot summary, I’m already board…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
18
TV WILL SPOTLIGHT RUN FOR GRAND SLAM By Gerald Jordan
 
 
This Open Championship could be a good one. Jordan Spieth enters the week having won both majors for this year and is favored to win the third one...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
17
A CHANCE TO PICK A FAVORITE 'DAISY' By Tom Brinkmoeller
 
 
Let's start with a stipulation: Because regular visitors to this website enjoy high-quality entertainment, there's no need to make a case for the extraordinary entertainment contained in Driving Miss Daisy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
17
HBO GOES TO THE HEAD OF THE EMMY CLASS AGAIN By Ed Bark
 
 

HBO and its most popular series ever, Game of Thrones, again led all networks and series in prime-time Emmy nominations announced Thursday. Each upped their totals from last year, with HBO nabbing 126 nods...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
17
TIG By David Bianculli
 
 
This new Netflix offering is not at all what I expected. I expected this documentary special about comic Tig Notaro, the standup comic who performed an impromptu, now-legendary stage set in 2012 about receiving a cancer diagnosis days before, to be a standup comedy special, peppered with some behind-the-scenes footage. Instead, it’s a full-out biographical documentary – and it’s excellent, and pulls you in emotionally from the very first frames. Notaro is one of the executive p
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
17
2015 BRITISH OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli
 
 
Today is Day 2 of the British Open, held this year at the classic Old Course at St Andrews in Scotland. Already, Jordan Spieth starts the day just two shots off the lead, which is held by Dustin Johnson, who three-putted on the final hole of the U.S. Open to hand Spieth the win there. So there’s a big story there for Day 2. There’s a also a big story, on the other end of the leader board, regarding Tiger Woods, who did so poorly yesterday – shooting a 4 over par, where Spieth h
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
17
GREAT PERFORMANCES: "DRIVING MISS DAISY" By David Bianculli
 
 
Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy, a play turned into a movie in 1989 with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, returns to the stage for this version, starring James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury. For a full review, see Tom Brinkmoeller’s Raised on MTM. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Jul
17
THE REWRITE By David Bianculli
 
 
This 2014 romantic comedy stars Hugh Grant as an Oscar-winning screenwriter who’s fallen on hard times, and accepts, reluctantly, a job requiring him to leave Hollywood and teach writing at an East Coast college. Costars make it sound more intriguing than that synopsis might: Grant’s fellow players include Marisa Tomei and J.K. Simmons, both of whom are Oscar-winning.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley