I really like this 2013 Coen Brothers film – and love the music, which is evocative of the Greenwich Village folk scene just before Bob Dylan hit it big. Oscar Isaac stars as a struggling, volatile folkie, and the movie makes a lot more sense, at least to me, once you see it as employing the structure of a traditional folk song. Lots of different verses framed by an opening and closing that, by the time it repeats at the end, makes a lot more sense.

2015

Mar

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guests include David Beckham, Hugh Jackman, Focus stars Will Smith and Margot Robbie, and musician Noel Gallagher.

2015

Mar

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s guest host is Chris Hemsworth, a.k.a. the star of Thor. Musical guest: Zac Brown Band.

2015

Mar

THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Ellie Kemper, who played Erin on NBC’s The Office, brings her effervescent eccentricity to another quirky sitcom – this time on Netflix, in the new comedy from Tina Fey and producing partner Robert Carlock. This time, she’s the star, playing one of several women held underground for more than a decade in the doomsday bunker of a deluded cult leader. When she surfaces, she decides to make her way in New York City, very quickly finding both a roommate and an empl

2015

Mar

MALEFICENT By David Bianculli

It’s a good period for the three-dimensional reenactment of classic Disney characters and films. The new live-action remake of Cinderella, directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Lily James from Downton Abbey in the title role and Cate Blanchett as the wicked stepmother, has gotten strong reviews. Three classic Disney villainesses, including Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, currently are populating ABC’s Once Upon a Time. And last year, Angelina Jolie starred in the stylistic Malefi

2015

Mar

ARGO By David Bianculli

Made in 2012, this fact-based movie revealed the amazing, formerly top-secret rescue of captives during the Iranian hostage crisis. Ben Affleck stars as the extractor who pushes an extremely unorthodox mission plan – and John Goodman, and Alan Arkin play two of the particularly colorful and imaginative Hollywood types who help him.

2015

Mar

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s installment, given its timing and guests, can’t help but be worth watching. Last week the show was on hiatus, so Bill Maher has two weeks of volatile headlines to explore. And tonight, Maher’s guests include David Axelrod, John Ridley (pictured), Matt Taibbi – who, respectively, have a provocative new book, a provocative new TV series, and the same old scrappy journalistic attitude.

2015

Mar

VICE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last week, Vice preceded its new season with a one-hour special examining experimental new treatments that, according to some doctors, may eradicate cancer in our lifetimes. It was an extremely persuasive, informative, and encouraging, report – and set the stage for tonight’s Season 3 premiere episode, which includes a report on “Our Rising Oceans.” But will reports such as this one persuade everyone that climate change can no longer be denied? The chance

2015

Mar

ABC'S 'AMERICAN CRIME' SOARS ON THE STRENGTH OF ITS DARING, DAUNTING PREMISE By Ed Bark

Brace yourself for American Crime. This is one brave-ass series. Which couldn’t be said for a good long while about a Big Four broadcast network drama...

2015

Mar

PULP FICTION By David Bianculli

The other day, when the El Rey network presented its latest Director’s Chair installment (with Francis Coppola), it also repeated the two-parter in which host and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez sat down with old buddy Quentin Tarantino. It made me want to see Pulp Fiction all over again – and tonight I can. One thing I learned from that interview: Technically, Pulp Fiction is a trilogy, recycling some of the characters from three separate stories. Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta star.

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