I haven’t seen this 2015 documentary profile – but Chris Farley exploded so quickly onto the comedy scene, and died so young, that he deserves a closer look. Many people, I’m guessing, have their own favorite Farley movie, or Saturday Night Live sketch. Mine is the SNL sketch where he played a diehard fan interviewing Paul McCartney. I loved Farley’s clueless enthusiasm – and, you can tell by watching it, so did McCartney. I hope it’s included here…

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2016 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

The second half of the Sweet 16 contest is decided tonight, with two games apiece televised by CBS and TBS. CBS goes first, at 7 p.m. ET, with No. 1 Virginia facing No. 4 Iowa State. TBS starts at 7:15 ET, with No. 6 Notre Dame going against No. 7. Wisconsin. The later games are an exciting matchup of surviving double-digit seeds, No. 10 Syracuse vs. No. 11 Gonzaga (9:30 p.m. ET on CBS), and the night’s other top seed, North Carolina, facing No. 5 Indiana (9:45 p.m. ET on TBS). The storied

2016

Mar

PRETTY WOMAN By David Bianculli

This 1990 romantic comedy has some very durable set pieces – but the performances by both Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, making this potentially twisted Disney fantasy work, are worth admiring no matter how many years go by. And, for the record, more than 25 years have gone by…

2016

Mar

SPRING BROKE By David Bianculli

This new documentary looks at the long, sometimes lewd tradition of Spring Break in Florida’s Daytona Beach. That wasn’t the only location for those annual revelries in South Florida – Ft. Lauderdale was equally raucous, and perhaps even more famous, at least until MTV came south for the sunshine, suds and chicanery. Spring Broke looks at the rivalry, and beachlike ebb and flow, of those twin celebrations. Experience or relive it all here – from a safe distance.

2016

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

There are plenty of current events to discuss, including the latest terrorist attack, this time claiming 31 deaths in Brussels. There’s also the sudden death this week of comedian Garry Shandling. Expect Bill Maher to note them both…

2016

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R.I.P GARRY SHANDLING: NOVEMBER 29, 1949 TO MARCH 24, 2016 By Ed Bark

Garry Shandling thought a lot about his craft, fretted a lot about how people would perceive and receive him. But be assured of this. His death Thursday at age 66 silenced one of the great comedic minds of the last quarter century...

2016

Mar

‘THE CATCH’ GIVES MIREILLE ENOS A COMPLETE MAKEOVER AND SHONDA RHIMES ANOTHER ABC VEHICLE TO DRIVE By Ed Bark

Mireille Enos seldom if ever let a smile be her umbrella in AMC’s The Killing, even during those drenching, ever-present rainstorms. That all changes in the early stages of ABC’s very modern and stylish The Catch...

2016

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2016 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

We’re down to the Sweet 16 – and tonight’s brackets are full of top-seeded teams, because they’ve prevailed in the South and West brackets, with no team ranked lower than No. 5. Half of tonight’s action takes place on CBS, beginning at 7 p.m. ET with No. 2 Villanova vs. No. 3 Miami (FL), followed at 9:30 p.m. ET by No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 5 Maryland. Over on TBS, the action begins at 7:15 p.m. ET, with No. 2 Oklahoma vs. No. 3 Texas A&M. Then, at 9:45 p.m. ET, it&r

2016

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A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE By David Bianculli

This 2001 movie, a collaboration of sorts between Steven Spielberg and, posthumously, Stanley Kubrick (they had traded ideas on this concept for years, and Spielberg completed it incorporating Kubrick’s final notes), is a sci-fi take on Pinocchio, starring Haley Joel Osment as an artificially created being who longs to be a real boy. The reason I point it out tonight, other than that it’s an underrated movie in the Spielberg canon, is that it’s the start of a cleverly paired Ci

2016

Mar

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guest mentors are Sia (who ought to give really helpful tips on making eye contact with the audience) and Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. At the end of the night, the Top 4 will be standing, and will have performed twice, including one Sia song. If La’Porsha Renae isn’t among those moving on, the final season of Idol voters will have left the show with a very sorry swan song. She’s on track to win, and could provide the show with its

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