Clearly, this is one Titanic night for television. Tonight TCM presents this 1958 movie version of the ill-fated voyage, starring Kenneth More and featuring such now-familiar faces as Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore in Goldfinger) and David McCallum (who once played Illya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and now, on NCIS, is just Ducky).

2012

Apr

GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS: NEW COMEDY SERIES COVERED -- THRICE By David Bianculli

HBO's new Girls series premieres Sunday, and we here at TVWW are welcoming it with open arms. Friday on NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," I preview the show with a lengthy clip chosen precisely to capture the writing and performing rhythms of auteur Lena Dunham...

2012

Apr

MORE ON "GIRLS"... By Diane Werts

More on "Girls"? Yes, but this is straight from the big guns behind HBO's new Sunday comedy buzz-magnet -- writer/director/star Lena Dunham and executive producer Judd Apatow. - DW

2012

Apr

LENA DUNHAM'S 'GIRLS' NAVIGATE NEW YORK CITY LIFE By David Bianculli

(From NPR) "Girls" has been compared to Sex and the City. The characters, played by Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke, Lena Dunham and Zosia Mamet, navigate the ups and downs of life in New York City...

2012

Apr

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? By David Bianculli

I’m well aware that I promote this 2000 Coen Brothers comedy a lot – and I did it long before George Clooney optioned my book on the Smothers Brothers as a possible film, so I’m not brown-nosing here. Not completely. But I absolutely adore any movie audacious enough to connect The Odyssey to Sullivan’s Travels, with an old-timey country soundtrack and a Three Stooges vibe, and somehow make it all work. This is that movie – and Clooney is its Ulysses. Truly. And wait

2012

Apr

CASABLANCA By David Bianculli

As it happens, there are several movies on TV tonight that I’ll write about, and point you towards, every chance I get. Here’s one of them, and here’s another chance: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains in a cinematic masterpiece from 1942. Watch it again, Sam. And watch it again, even if your name isn’t Sam.

2012

Apr

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS By David Bianculli

Here’s another movie I recommend whenever I can – a film I loved so much that, when I was in Paris last year, I sought (and found! And sat on!) the steps on which Owen Wilson sat before being whisked to a memorable taste of Parisian night life. Alas, no carriage came for me – but I’ll always have Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s best comedy film in decades. (See how I tied that back to Casablanca, folks? No extra charge.) Rachel McAdams co-stars as Wilson’s fi

2012

Apr

FRINGE By David Bianculli

This new episode is called “The Consultant” – and perhaps, with a consultant, I would feel comfortable describing what’s about to happen in this hour. I know, though, that it involves two universes, the red-haired Olivia, and a Walter where he shouldn’t be.

2012

Apr

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Among tonight’s guests: David Stockman (expect lots of talk about the budget and the economy) and Tavis Smiley (expect lots of talk about everything, especially Barack Obama). But on the week when Rick Santorum retrieved his hat from the ring, seemingly leaving the Republican nomination to Mitt Romney, everyone, especially Maher, should have plenty to say.

2012

Apr

"THE DUST BOWL" IS COMING -- NEXT NOVEMBER By Diane Werts

Can't wait for Ken Burns' next PBS documentary? Here's a peek at The Dust Bowl, which premieres Nov. 18-19, examining "the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history." - DW

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