SERIES PREMIERE: Assassins and hit men (or, to be politically correct, hit people) have proven fascinating when put in vehicles making room for dark comedy as well as drama. Cases in point: Grosse Pointe Blank or any of the movie or TV incarnations of Fargo. Starting tonight, Saturday Night Live alumnus Bill Hader joins that trigger-happy club — where trigger-happy, I just realized, in this context has a tasty double meaning. He plays a killer for hire who pursues his next target to a Holl

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

What will John Oliver have to say about yesterday’s global protest movement, especially the awesome and inspiring rally in Washington, D.C., at which the only speakers who weren’t teenagers were younger than teenagers? I don’t have any idea — but I presume it’ll be supportive and contextual, and I can’t wait to hear it.

2018

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ACTOR LEE INGLEBY ON 'INNOCENT' By David Hinckley

Until not so long ago, television was widely considered the place for dramas that weren’t quite prestigious enough for the movies...

2018

Mar

2018 NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT By David Bianculli

After the exciting Sweet 16 games Thursday and last night, we’ve arrived at the weekend of the Elite Eight, with more lower-seeded teams still competing than, I believe, at any year in tournament history. TBS shows tonight’s games, and CBS gets tomorrow’s — as a lead-in to the Stormy Daniels edition of 60 Minutes. In tonight’s first game at 6 p.m. ET on TBS, South No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago faces another scrappy Cinderella team, No. 9-seeded Kansas State. And after

2018

Mar

HOPE & FURY: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., THE MOVEMENT AND THE MEDIA By David Bianculli

On the same day the organized outrage from the Florida high school student survivors of last month’s mass shooting is scheduled to culminate in a March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, NBC looks at another national movement, propelled by passionate young people, that set out to change history more than 50 years ago. I just finished covering this in my TV History and Appreciation of the 1960s and 1970s class, and the parallels — and the promise — are amazing.

2018

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ATOMIC BLONDE By David Bianculli

Another recent action movie based on a graphic novel, this 2017 spy thriller not only emulates James Bond, but sets itself in the original Bond era of the 1960s. Charlize Theron plays the female equivalent of 007, an undercover MI-6 agent named Lorraine Broughton, whose latest mission takes her to Berlin during the Cold War, where she gets a very chilly reception.

2018

Mar

THE ODD COUPLE By David Bianculli

Neil Simon wrote the screenplay for this 1968 comedy, adapting his own Broadway hit, and giving Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau some of the greatest roles of their respective film careers. Lemmon gets many of the funniest bits and lines, but Matthau gets the one that made me laugh louder than almost any punch line ever committed to film — when his Oscar Madison complains of misinterpreting the way his fussy roommate, Felix Unger, used to initial his hastily written notes.

2018

Mar

SANTA CLARITA DIET By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of this offbeat comedy series, starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as a suburban couple with very unusual marital issues, rolls out today, with last season’s twist now firmly established as part of this couple’s status quo: She’s a “functioning” zombie, and he’s trying to cope.

2018

Mar

GAME OVER, MAN! By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This sounds like a slacker version of Die Hard, with a trio of video game developers turned into unexpected heroes when their hotel is overrun by terrorist villains. Adam DeVine stars.

2018

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MARCH OF THE PENGUINS 2: THE NEXT STEP By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: In 2005, March of the Penguins, telling of the migratory and sexual drives of penguins, was a surprise hit, and solidified Morgan Freeman as one of cinema’s (and television’s) most in-demand narrators. More than a decade later, this sequel arrives, following the path of a new young penguin. This new film, directed by Luc Jacquet, was released last year under the title L’empereur.

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