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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
May
18
CARGO By David Bianculli
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: Martin Freeman, who’s in one of the year’s biggest box-office movies in Black Panther, stars in this 2017 Australian movie import, playing a devoted family man in a post-apocalyptic Australia. Zombies, or something like them, are everywhere, and Freeman tours the outback – by boat, truck, and on foot – seeking safety and survival for his wife and their baby daughter. Things don’t go particularly well for them, or those they encounter, but Cargo demon
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
MATA HARI By David Bianculli
 
 
Greta Garbo, in this 1931 early talkie, embodied the WWI seductive superspy Mata Hari, in ways, and in costumes and dances, that remain resonant to this day. Especially this day, at 6:15 p.m. ET, when TCM presents Mata Hari uncut and uninterrupted.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
ROYAL WEDDING: WILLIAM AND KATE By David Bianculli
 
 
As appetizers to tomorrow morning’s royal feast – the latest Royal Wedding, televised live from England – BBC America presents TV coverage of two previous royal weddings. At 3 p.m. ET, and again at 7:30 p.m. ET, BBC America presents coverage of the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES FINALE: After seven seasons, this ABC series calls it quits, with what one hopes is a final “happily ever after.” But this series has rewritten and overwritten itself so much in the past few seasons, there’s no telling where it might end up.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
ROYAL WEDDING: CHARLES AND DIANA By David Bianculli
 
 
In the second half of its royal wedding retrospective doubleheader, BBC America presents, at 4 p.m. ET and again at 8:30 p.m. ET, TV coverage of the 1981 royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
AMERICAN MASTERS: “BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY” By David Bianculli
 
 
Hedy Lamarr was born in Austria, migrated to Hollywood, and played such iconic female figures as Delilah (in 1949’s Samson and Delilah) and Joan of Arc (in 1957’s The Story of Mankind). She also inspired the visual looks of other icons – specifically, Disney’s Snow White and the original comic-book incarnation of Catwoman. But the real bombshell about Bombshell, this jaw-dropping 2017 documentary, is how her ideas and inventions, in WWII, not only helped the war effort tr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
REBEL IN THE RYE By David Bianculli
 
 
Game Change and Recount writer-director Danny Strong wrote and directed this 2017 drama, which is a biographical drama about reclusive author J.D. Salinger, famous for Catcher in the Rye and other stories. Nicholas Hoult plays Jerry Salinger – and Salinger’s early mentor, his college literary professor and early publisher Whit Burnett, is played by someone who has himself been somewhat reclusive of late: Kevin Spacey.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: All of Season 5 has been about alternate time lines and the end of the world. Tonight’s cliffhanger, presumably, will restore order to things – although the way this TV show’s big-sister movie franchise, The Avengers, just “ended” its latest blockbuster, all bets are off.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s scheduled guests include global economist Dambisa Moyo, columnist Dan Savage and national security analyst Clint Watts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
18
'BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY' SPELLS OUT HER EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT FAR FROM THE MOVIE SCREEN By David Hinckley
 
 
In an age when most news flashes turn out to be hollow grabs for attention, the one about Hedy Lamarr a couple of years ago was genuinely stunning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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