Advisory warnings at the beginning of television productions tend to have the same impact as pre-flight airline safety instructions about putting on your air mask before helping others. It’s worth paying heed to the advisory that precedes Leaving Neverland...

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TOOTSIE By David Bianculli

Many times, when watching a Dustin Hoffman movie, you have to watch more than once to truly appreciate the contributions of his co-stars. In The Graduate, Hoffman is the center that demands the spotlight – but Anne Bancroft’s performance as Mrs. Robinson, ranging from underplayed comedy to fierce anger, is crucial to the movie’s success. In All the President’s Men, Hoffman has the showier part as Carl Bernstein, but Robert Redford much more than holds his own. In Rain Man

2019

Mar

THE 2000S: "THE PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION" By David Bianculli

I can’t help pointing out this rerun – not when I’m not only in this documentary on TV in the 2000s, but wrote the book from which this episode of The 2000s gets it title. And yes, if you want to see the show, then read the book, the latter is still available: Click here to buy a paperback copy of, yes, The Platinum Age of Television. The founder of this site thanks you profusely.

2019

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guest, a former SNL writer returning for another round as guest host, is John Mulaney, who had a great time, and presided over a strong show, when he first guest hosted last April. He’s heavily involved with the writers’ room, unlike many guest hosts, and the regular SNL players seem determined to bring their ‘A’ game. Speaking of ‘A’ games: In the current Co-Op episode of the IFC spoof series Documentary Now!, Mulaney parodies the perfectionis

2019

Mar

'JONI 75: A BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION' IS A TRIBUTE THAT'S LONG OVERDUE By David Hinckley

Nobody has ever sung songs, or written them, quite like Joni Mitchell. Some of her friends and admirers got together in Los Angeles recently to say that right out loud, and PBS filmed the results...

2019

Mar

KATE BECKINSALE SHINES IN 'THE WIDOW' ON AMAZON PRIME By David Hinckley

If you’ve ever been in a serious situation compounded by a growing sense that you weren’t sure you could trust anybody at all, welcome to Georgia Wells’ world...

2019

Mar

'LOSERS' RECOUNT THE POSITIVES OF NOT WINNING By David Hinckley

In sports as in life, we love winners. An unusual new Netflix series invites us to rethink how we feel about the losers...

2019

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THE WIDOW By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Kate Beckinsale stars in this new series, and is the main reason to watch. She plays the title character, a woman trying to manage her grief after her husband is among the victims of a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Except that, once she sees a fleeting glimpse of a man in subsequent news footage, a man wearing the same type of brightly colored baseball cap her husband always sported, this purported widow is convinced her husband is alive – and goes

2019

Mar

THE BOY WHO HARNESSED THE WIND By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor directed this fact-based drama, about a young teen in Malawi who was witnessing his village falling victim to an encroaching famine, and decided to do something about it. Using books borrowed from a school library and materials borrowed from scrapyards, he designed and built a windmill, which furnished his village with both water and electricity. Ejiofor, who wrote the screenplay as well, also plays the father of the teen, William Kamkwamba, who’s pla

2019

Mar

HUGO By David Bianculli

This 20100 Martin Scorsese movie is a biography in disguise – the story of one of the pioneers of film back in its infancy, told in a way that builds suspense even regarding the subject of its admiration. Hugo is a delicious movie: beautiful to watch, comforting to lose yourself in, and full of fabulously focused performances. Asa Butterfield plays the title role, an orphan child living deep within the hidden rooms of a Parisian train station in 1931 – and other players include Ben K

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