This 2013 comedy is about a guy who, after a lifetime of a lack of romantic commitment, finally decides to get married – so his friends throw him a bachelor party in Las Vegas. What makes this different from a thousand other youth comedies out there? Because there’s nothing youthful about Last Vegas: The groom-to-be is played by Michael Douglas, and his friends by Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline.

2015

May

KITE By David Bianculli

This 2014 live-action movie is based on a graphic novel, and 1998 animated miniseries, about a young girl who turns chameleonic assassin to avenge the death of her parents – and to stay alive herself, in a dangerous dystopian world of killers and gangsters. The star of the film is India Eisley, a former co-star of ABC Family’s The Secret Life of an American Teenager. And her co-star, perhaps an even more unlikely presence in this kinetic, flashy drama, is Samuel L. Jackson.

2015

May

500 QUESTIONS By David Bianculli

The new limited-series ABC quiz show continues, and tonight’s episode will be the one that lets ABC know if this experiment is gaining in momentum, or becoming another broadcast TV failure in an attempt to do something different. Well, slightly different, anyway…

2015

May

RED NOSE DAY By David Bianculli

This fundraiser event, based on a successful one in Great Britain, is aimed at showcasing music and comedy in an effort to raise money for children everywhere who live in poverty. Scheduled participants include Will Ferrell, Adam Levine and Jennifer Hudson. Watch for the pretaped short videos, which include such playful offerings as cast members from Orange Is the New Black performing in an indie “film” called “Reservoir Bitches.” The hosts are Seth Myers, Jane Krakowski

2015

May

MARON By David Bianculli

In this new episode Marc (Marc Maron) tries to be neighborly – but his neighbors, who are lesbians, make it tough when they ask him to make a special donation to them. A sperm donation…

2015

May

LOUIE By David Bianculli

Part 1. In this episode, which starts the latest multi-part adventure for Louie (Louis C.K.), our hero goes on a “Road Trip” – and we go along for the ride. And the flight. And all the indignities…

2015

May

BETWEEN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Former Nickelodeon star Jennette McCurdy, from iCarly and Sam & Cat, stars in this new Canadian series, imported by Netflix on a weekly basis, as a pregnant teen who lives in Pretty Lake. It’s an isolated town that becomes even more isolated after a mysterious virus wipes out everyone over 21. The quarantined town has to fend for itself and work as its own new society, as in Lord of the Flies or, in a movie that had anyone over 30 rounded up and forcibly ingested LSD,

2015

May

LETTERMAN'S LAST 'LATE SHOW' A PERFECT SENDOFF By David Bianculli

After a third of a century in late-night TV, David Letterman presented his last show last night (Wednesday, May 20), on the final day of the May ratings sweeps. And he went out with a great one…

2015

May

WE'LL MISS YOU, MR. LETTERMAN By Linda Donovan

With David Letterman’s retirement now upon us, I’ve been tasked with finding a Video Worth Watching from Dave’s thirty-three years on late night television. How do I choose a highlight from a career filled with highlights...

2015

May

500 QUESTIONS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: If at first you succeed, try, try again. When ABC first launched Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 1999, it was as a special week-long “special event”: a quiz show, adapted from the British hit series of the same name, presented in prime time and spread over a single week to build momentum and interest. It was such a huge hit that ABC soon repeated the experiment, then began programming so many installments of Millionaire over so many time periods that it oversaturate

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