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2018

Mar

MY COUSIN RACHEL By David Bianculli

Based on the 1951 novel by Daphne du Maurier, this 2017 movie stars Rachel Weisz as another Rachel – a recent widow suspected by her cousin of murdering her husband in cold blood, and with very sinister intent. He sets out to prove her guilt, but quickly begins falling under her spell. And with Weisz in the role, that doesn’t exactly strain credulity.

2018

Mar

PATRIOTS DAY By David Bianculli

A trio of world-class likable actors – Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, and Kevin Bacon – star in this recreation of the 2013 Boston marathon bombing, and the rapid, full-city reaction by first responders and law enforcement, both in aiding victims and hunting for the terrorists responsible. Peter Berg directs.

2018

Mar

PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II By David Bianculli

This marvelous miniseries is over, but it has one final treat to deliver: a compilation of the behind-the-scenes sequences that ended each episode in one stand-alone, how-they-did-it The Making of Blue Planet II special. From the state-of-the-art technology of manned submersibles to the low-tech approach of a man with a snorkel, this show, in its own way, is every bit as amazing as the episodes focusing on the natural world itself.

2018

Mar

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Sterling K. Brown, who plays Randall on NBC’s This Is Us, is tonight’s guest host. Musical guest: James Bay.

2018

Mar

SNEAKY PETE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Graham Yost, who has given us such delightful characters in The Americans and Justified, continues to do so here in Sneaky Pete, which begins its second season today on Amazon, presenting 10 new episodes. Giovanni Ribisi stars as Marius, who got away with posing as former cellmate Pete Murphy last season, playing a long con that involves some very deadly gangsters. This season, it also involves Pete’s grandmother Audrey, played by the great Margo Martindale – w

2018

Mar

COLLATERAL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This BBC Two drama, written by David Hare, stars Carey Mulligan, who also starred recently in the London and Broadway revivals of Hare’s play Skylight. Here, she plays Det. Inspector Kip Glaspie, who’s investigating the murder of a pizza delivery boy – and suspects the case is more complex than it appears. Other co-stars include John Simm as a British politician, and Billie Piper as his ex, who ordered the pizza. Collateral is exactly the sort of police drama t

2018

Mar

LOVE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 3 for this wry love, and sometimes anti-love, story, starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust. It’s created by Judd Apatow and real-life couple Leslie Arfin and Rust – and while love may or may not live happily every ever, Love will not. Whatever happens with and to this show’s romantically entangled protagonists, this is its final season.

2018

Mar

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

This is the landmark 100th episode for this ABC Marvel Comics series. Well, it’s a landmark according to ABC, anyway, which is promoting the episode with as much anticipatory buildup as it can muster. “Everything has led to this,” its promos declare. But if “everything” means a deal that Coulson made with Ghost Rider, this series’ weakest character, I’ll watch, and hope, but I’m curbing my enthusiasm.

2018

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s scheduled top-of-the-show guest, who gets about 10-15 minutes to be interviewed by Bill Maher one-on-one, is Kathy Griffin. She hasn’t been seen on TV much since the backlash over her May 17 photo in which she posed for social media holding a bloodied Trump mask. Now she’s attempting to reclaim her career and her voice – and doing it on a show whose host once got fired himself, in an ABC series called Politically Incorrect, for making a controversial comment abo

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