This is a repeat, but an excellent one: The guest host, from earlier this season, is Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who opens the show with a trademark rapid-paced rap number, moving through the SNL space with wit as well as energy. This episode already was shown in late night in October, but it appears Miranda is not giving away his slot...

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Nov

THE GRADUATE By David Bianculli

This movie, from 1967, resulted in Dustin Hoffman’s first Oscar nomination as Best Actor – and is pretty much a perfect movie. Perfect performances (by Hoffman, Anne Bancroft as Mrs. Robinson, and Katharine Ross as her daughter), perfect music (written by Paul Simon, performed by Simon & Garfunkel), perfect direction (by Mike Nichols), and perfectly ambigious ending. That’s three cinematic triumphs for Hoffman, shown on the same night – and this tremendous triple feat

2016

Nov

FLORENCE HENDERSON: ONE OF THE LAST OF THE CLASSIC TV MOMS By David Hinckley

The death of Florence Henderson draws the curtain a little further on the Good Old Days of television Moms...

2016

Nov

NATGEO DOCUMENTS A FEAST OF ANOTHER SORT By David Hinckley

Once we’ve all enjoyed our Thanksgiving feasts, National Geographic Wild will remind us how food consumption works elsewhere in the animal kingdom...

2016

Nov

GILMORE GIRLS: "A YEAR IN THE LIFE" By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: Netflix has gone the TV series revival route before – quite gloriously with new episodes of Arrested Development, and quite horribly with its sequel sitcom series, Fuller House. But now, today, comes four new 90-minute installments of Gilmore Girls, generated by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, returning to her TV baby to craft four new reunion episodes tied to the seasons: “Winter,” “Spring,” “Summer” and “Fall.” (In a di

2016

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3% By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Here’s an exotic new series worth a sample. It’s a new Brazilian series, produced by Netflix and filmed in Brazil, telling of a future in which people are given the opportunity to cross from a land of devastation into a land of plenty. It’s an arduous journey, however, that results in failure for 97 percent of those who attempt it. Bianca Comparato stars.

2016

Nov

MICHAEL CHE MATTERS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: In this new Netflix special – one of three new Netflix offerings unveiled today – the co-anchor of the current “Weekend Update” news satire on NBC’s Saturday Night Live gets to step out from behind his fake news desk (well, the desk is real; only the news is fake) and deliver a one-man standup routine. And an uncensored one at that.

2016

Nov

HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS By David Bianculli

How time flies. This is the golden anniversary of this 1966 animated holiday special, starring Boris Karloff as both the narrator and the Grinch. It’s co-directed by Chuck Jones, who created Wile E. Coyote and developed Bugs Bunny, and the voice of Cindy Lou Who is provided by June Foray, who also provided the classic voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel on Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show.

2016

Nov

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN By David Bianculli

And this other early holiday special will turn 50 in 2019, so it’s a major oldie too (as am I, because I saw it back in 1969). Jimmy Durante narrates. And Frosty, long before Olaf, is the snowman with a mission.

2016

Nov

KIRK IS IN STARS HOLLOW, TOO, FOR THE RETURN OF 'GILMORE GIRLS' By David Hinckley

Sean Gunn was all-in for the Gilmore Girls reunion, which doesn’t mean there weren’t a few anxious moments when it actually happened...

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