Matt Le Blanc teamed again with his old Pucks network executive and nemesis, Merc Lapidus (John Pankow) – this time on a horrible game show called “The Box.” And don’t expect this show to go any better than the last one…

2015

Mar

QUENTIN TARANTINO DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

I’ve written already about how interesting I found Robert Rodriguez’s two-part interview with Quentin Tarantino on the El Rey Network – and how it made me want to see his early ground-breaking films all over again. Today, IFC makes that not only possible, but easy, with a double feature beginning at 5:45 p.m. ET with 1992’s Reservoir Dogs, and continuing at 8 p.m. ET with 1994’s Pulp Fiction.

2015

Mar

THE MORE THE MERRIER By David Bianculli

A new season of The Essentials was launched last week – and with it, Robert Osborne’s newest, most acclaimed co-host, actress Sally Field. This week, the two of them celebrate this 1943 comedy made and set during wartime. A shortage of available apartments in Washington, D.C. during WWII makes strange bedfellows, and even stranger roommates, as Jean Arthur shares an apartment with dashing Joel McCrae and crusty Charles Coburn.

2015

Mar

MILLION DOLLAR BABY By David Bianculli

Hilary Swank stars as a determined young boxer in this 2004 Oscar-winning film, directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Paul Haggis. The movie, the actress and the screenwriter all won Oscars – as did Best Supporting Actor Morgan Freeman. In Oscar terms, that qualifies as a first-round knockout.

2015

Mar

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

This is scheduled to be a compilation show of the best moments from this season – which means it’s bound to have more laughs per minute than almost anything you can watch on TV.

2015

Mar

SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

This is a same-week repeat of last Sunday’s installment – but it’s worth pointing out, especially to those who missed it the first time around. A lot happens in this episode, to the various scrappy survivors of the Gallagher family, but there’s one scene that froze me in my tracks when watching the first time. Lip Gallagher, played by Jeremy Allen White, is explaining to a college official why he should be allowed to make a series of tuition payments, rather than one lump

2015

Mar

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG By David Bianculli

I used to confuse this 1968 movie with The Absent-Minded Professor, which also had a flying car of sorts – but in that Disney movie, that vehicle went airborne due to the chemical discovery of Flubber. In this Disney movie musical, starring Dick Van Dyke, the car that provides the movie’s onomatopoeia title is a lot fancier and gimmick-prone than that. It’s sort of like a James Bond supercar, which only makes sense: This musical, which came to theaters a few years after Goldfin

2015

Mar

GREAT PERFORMANCES: "THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: GLAD ALL OVER" By David Bianculli

Right after The Beatles invaded America on The Ed Sullivan Show, so did another British rock band: The Dave Clark Five. And for a while, they were notching Number One hits in the U.S. right along with the Fab Four. Clark was one of the rare drummers who led the band and sang lead vocals (take that, Ringo!), and their string of hits was due, in no small part, to the music’s propulsive beats. “Glad All Over,” “Bits and Pieces,” “Over and Over” – each

2015

Mar

THIRD PERSON By David Bianculli

Paul Haggis, who won back-to-back Oscars for writing the screenplays to Million Dollar Baby and Crash, both wrote and directed this 2013 film, which follows three couples in as many cities – New York, London and Rome – before somehow bringing the trio of disparate stories together. Stars include Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis and Adrien Brody, as well as Kim Basinger, Olivia Wilde (pictured here with Neeson) and James Franco.

2015

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include Arianna Huffington and Sean Penn – two very different type of pop-culture celebrities.

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