Tonight on HBO, it’s open Mike night. The 2012 hit movie Magic Mike is presented first – then, in its cable debut, Magic Night XXL. I don’t know, in this sequel about male strippers, what the Roman numerals represents – but I think we can rule out centimeters…

2016

Feb

GHOSTBUSTERS DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

Another movie double feature: This time it’s 1984’s Ghostbusters, that brilliant genre comedy movie starring Bill Murray, followed by its 1989 sequel.

2016

Feb

NO WAY OUT By David Bianculli

Sidney Poitier is explosive, and impossible to miss, in this 1950 drama that afforded him his first major role in a motion picture. Given the racial controversies and insensitivities surrounding the Oscars all these years later, maybe it’s a good time to go back and watch this drama again. Poitier plays a medical intern treating a bigoted gangster (Richard Widmark).

2016

Feb

BLUEGRASS UNDERGROUND ARTS SPECIAL By David Bianculli

This monthly bluegrass concert series is performed and recorded hundreds of feet underground, in the Volcano Room of the Cumberland Caverns in Tennessee. This special gives samples of the performances from last season, with a new season of performances about to begin. Most of the performances are okay, but many of them are overshadowed by the background scenery, which is spectacular. Check local listings.

2016

Feb

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG By David Bianculli

This gripping 1961 movie about war crimes trials held after WWII is riveting on its own merits, but the cast makes it even more so. What other movie makes room for Marlene Dietrich and Maximilian Schell, Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland and Montgomery Clift, and William Shatner and Werner Klemperer?

2016

Feb

'LOVE' HURTS IN JUDD APATOW'S NEW NETFLIX SERIES By Ed Bark

It’s been standard TV sitcom procedure for the loud, plus-sized guy -- OK, the blustering fatso -- to get the slimmer, pretty girl. This time it’s a thin, plain-faced, bespectacled, soft-spoken nebbish who eventually becomes alluring to a messed-up beauty...

2016

Feb

LOVE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The three creators of this new Netflix comedy series, all 10 episodes of which are available for streaming beginning today, are Judd Apatow, Lesley Arfin and Paul Rust. Apatow and Arfin collaborated on HBO’s Girls (he as an executive producer, she as a first-season writer), and Arfin and Rust collaborate on a daily basis: They’re married to one another. Rust is on camera as well, co-starring opposite Gillian Jacobs from Community. They play thirtysomethings who find

2016

Feb

COOKING By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Michael Pollan is the host of this four-part documentary series, which, like his book, is divided into four parts: “Fire, Water, Air, and earth. “We are the species who cooks, he begins. “No other species cooks.” All four parts are streamed beginning today, starting with the premiere, “Fire,” which includes a midpoint surprise appearance by James Taylor. Why? Ah, there’s the rub. Although, when discussing pigs in this doc

2016

Feb

AMERICAN MASTERS: "CAROLE KING: NATURAL WOMAN" By David Bianculli

Carole King is enjoying a very good stretch at the moment: Having a Broadway musical based on her life and work, winning a Kennedy Center Honor, and so on. Now she’s also the subject of an American Masters tribute – though I can’t imagine any tribute as moving as when Aretha Franklin belted out one of King’s songs at the Kennedy Center, dropping purse and fur to do it right. Check local listings.

2016

Feb

A DAY AT THE RACES By David Bianculli

Groucho Marx is the fast-talking Dr. Hackenbush in this 1937 Marx Brothers comedy, in which – oh, look. I’m pressed for time today. It’s a Marx Brothers movie. What else do you need?

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