Eight years ago, this sweet little musical comedy Disney film imagined what it would be like if a Disney-style animated princess would pop in, fully three-dimensional, in the modern world, in New York City but with her idealism and innocence intact. The film gave Amy Adams her first starring role – and, quite rightly, led to an impressive string of movie roles. In Enchanted, she’s enchanting. And so, I suppose, is this film’s modern-day Prince Charming: Patrick Dempsey from Gre

2015

Jan

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS By David Bianculli

In this 2008 comedy, Seth Rogen and James Franco co-star, creating devastation in their wake as they stumble aimlessly through a series of silly situations. And yet, seven years ago, this movie was released without causing any international incidents.

2015

Jan

AMERICAN MASTERS: "RICKY JAY: DECEPTIVE PRACTICE" By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the first new American Masters of the season – and it’s Season 29, if you’re counting, which is damned impressive (the number of seasons, not that you’re counting). It’s devoted to Ricky Jay, and it’s the first time this series has profiled a magician. That means Ricky Jay is getting his American Masters moment in the spotlight before, say, Harry Houdini – but there’s a good story to tell here, and the vintage clips go back

2015

Jan

12 MONKEYS By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, the second installment of this series, time-traveling Cole (Aaron Stanford) finds himself in the year 2015. I can’t say I’m particularly impressed – these days, I do that all the time.

2015

Jan

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

One of tonight’s guests on this new outing is politician Howard Dean. Another is comedian Bill Burr (pictured), whose name may be less familiar – but who, on Monday’s premiere installment of Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, provided the strongest laughs at the discuss-the-issues roundtable. And now, on a different coast, here he is, sitting in on his second talk-show roundtable of the week.

2015

Jan

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN By David Bianculli

One of the very best movie musicals ever made – and a spoof history of the cinema’s shift from silents to sound to boot. And, in the title number in this 1952 film, Gene Kelly sings and dances with pure, unbridled joy – in a sequence still a joy to behold 63 years later. Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and the unfairly underappreciated comic actress Jean Hagen co-star.

2015

Jan

MOM By David Bianculli

Last week in Hollywood, as part of the Television Critics Association press tour, Warner Bros. held a salute to Chuck Lorre, producer of four current CBS sitcoms – and, between the press conference and the party, screened an upcoming episode of one of those comedies. Not the long-running Two and a Half Men, or the top-rated The Big Bang Theory, or even Mike & Molly, but Lorre’s newest show, Mom, starring Anna Faris and Emmy-winning Allison Janney. Tonight, CBS televises that epis

2015

Jan

BACKSTROM By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation, just a notation. It’s too obvious to call this a detective version of House – but this new series, starring Rainn Wilson as a disagreeable, dislikable investigator, is way too obvious as well. It crams the character’s get-into-the-suspect’s-mind catch phrase, “I’m you…,” too often and too forcefully. Two can play at that game. “I’m you… and I’m changing channels.”

2015

Jan

PARENTHOOD By David Bianculli

How much more drama can this series dish out as its heads towards next week’s finale? Lots. And tonight, it has another character rushing to the hospital.This time it’s Amber (Mae Whitman), who’s in labor. And with the end of the series on the horizon, nothing can be taken for granted.

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