The fourth installment of David Letterman’s Netflix talk show features Jay-Z, with a side trip to record producer Rick Rubin and a recording session with Madison Ryann Ward, one of the artists Rubin is producing. The conversational chunks with Jay-Z are really intriguing, and Jay-Z has a shrewd way of responding to certain questions – by reshaping the question and throwing it back at his host. When Letterman asks Jay-Z which of his popular hip-hop peers just can’t rap, Jay-Z sm

2018

Apr

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

It’s a team effort now, S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.Y.D.R.A., working together for the first time, against something bigger and worse than them both. (No, it’s not Y.I.C.U.F.O., which was the name of the flying-saucer investigation group I organized in high school, and for which I successfully was recognized by the Air Force’s similarly obsessed Project Blue Book. That acronym stood for the Youth Investigations Committee on Unidentified Flying Objects, and I established it as a very sne

2018

Apr

FREAKS By David Bianculli

Every time I teach Film History and Appreciation, covering the early development of cinema up to and including Citizen Kane, I show this 1932 Tod Browning movie, made only a handful of years after the first full-length sound film. It’s a beautiful horror film about a circus sideshow troupe, in which the abnormal performers gathered for the amusement of audiences – the midgets, pinheads, Siamese twins and others – are the sweet and loving heroes, and the conniving human circus p

2018

Apr

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

I won’t list all of tonight’s guests, but will point out three – and taken together, they’d be unlikely to appear together in almost any other context, off or on TV. The announced guests for tonight’s show include Louie Anderson, Eliot Spitzer, and (pictured) Geraldo Rivera.

2018

Apr

CAN TIGER TAKE THE MASTERS? By Gerald Jordan

Imagine Sofia Vergara’s character in Modern Family repeating “Tiger, Tiger, Tiger” in rapid-fire succession and you’ll get a clear picture of the excitement this week on the Golf Channel and in and around August National Golf Club...

2018

Apr

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is titled “The Tenant Disassociation,” and has Sheldon and Leonard running against one another as president of their apartment building’s tenant association.

2018

Apr

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

The Joker, the Scarecrow, the Mad Hatter – they’re loose, sprung from Arkham Asylum, and they’re working together. That’s one side of the evil equation in Gotham. On the other: a newly empowered Barbara, an angry Lee, and, while she’s been dormant in recent episodes, a vengeful Ivy. Men on one side, women on the other, all seeking to rule Gotham, with the Penguin and the Riddler as very loose cannons. These recent episodes of Gotham have packed more villains per hou

2018

Apr

YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

This new episode has young Sheldon hassled by a bully. He’s used to that – but not coming from this particular source.

2018

Apr

ATLANTA By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is called “Teddy Perkins” – and FX thinks enough of it to present it tonight without commercial interruption. Attention should be paid.

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