The great Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West star in this fact-based 2014 movie about Welsh miners who go on strike, and gain support from the unlikeliest of allies: a group of gay and lesbian activists from London.

2016

Feb

2016 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE By David Bianculli

The field is a bit thinner for this latest Republican presidential debate, televised live from Greenville, SC. Jim Gilmore failed to qualify for the event, and both Carly Fiorino and Chris Christie have suspended their campaigns, cutting the debate field to six: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Ben Carson and John Kasich. Face the Nation anchor Jim Dickerson is the main moderator.

2016

Feb

DOCTOR WHO: "DOCTOR'S NOTES" By David Bianculli

Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones makes the first of her cross-genre appearances on Doctor Who – and in this Season 9 repeat episode, her appearance will be embellished with “Doctor’s Notes,” pointing out details and “in jokes” you might have missed the first time around. New Doctor Who episodes aren’t showing up until next year, so why not?

2016

Feb

BEING THERE By David Bianculli

Made in 1979, this is a fabulous fable of a film. Jerzy Kosinski, adapting his own novel, wrote the screenplay about a very simple, sheltered man (played by Peter Sellers) who goes out into the real world, in Washington DC, with very unpredictable and unforgettable results. Shirley MacLaine co-stars, Hal Ashby directs, and the whole thing is a funny, touching, thought-provoking character study.

2016

Feb

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Melissa McCarthy, who attacks this show like her own personal comedy playground, returns as guest host. The musical guest also shows up on SNL ready to play, and innovate, each time: Kanye West.

2016

Feb

SUDDENLY BINGE-WORTHY SHOWS AND PERFORMANCES ABOUND By Ed Martin

The overload of quality television shows no sign of waning anytime soon, even if critics are collapsing under the burden of it all and ordinary people are starting to push back...

2016

Feb

PBS PLAYS THE RIGHT NOTES IN BLUES GUITARIST B.B. KING'S BIO By David Hinckley

B.B. King would readily tell anyone who asked that he wasn’t the best blues musician of the 20^th century. What he wouldn’t say is that by the time he finished his career, he had become one of the century’s most important...

2016

Feb

OK, HERE WE GO AGAIN By Eric Gould

We’re big fans of OK Go, the alt-rock group that seems to have made its stake not only with hit songs, but also with accompanying jaw-dropping videos that are art projects all by themselves...

2016

Feb

HORACE AND PETE By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Acting like a music superstar, Louis C.K. unexpectedly dropped a new project on the public – this time a new miniseries, which he’s unrolling slowly but surely on his own website, for a very reasonable fee: $5 for the expanded premiere episode, and $2 for episode two (the only ones available at this point). Horace and Pete is set in a bar, managed by brothers played by Louis C.K. and Steve Buscemi – and while some parts are very funny, others are raw and dramatic...

2016

Feb

TRIUMPH'S ELECTION SPECIAL 2016 By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Once again, veteran (very) funnyman Bob Smigel takes his act on the road, and on his hand: As the voice and quick-thinking mind of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, his canine hand puppet, Smigel and his crew hit the campaign trail, to follow, and occasionally interact with or haunt, actual presidential candidates. The only one with whom Triumph lands an actual interview is Mike Huckabee, which tells you a lot about power politics. But Triumph attends rallies by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Jeb

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