This 1973 classic horror film is the second half of a great double feature, preceded at 5:30 p.m. ET by 1980’s The Shining. Watch them both, Decide which is scarier. Then marvel that both were made without CGI.

2015

Dec

TAXI DRIVER By David Bianculli

Yeah, I’m talking to you. This 1976 Martin Scorsese film, starring Robert De Niro, is an amazing movie, and has as much pull and tension as it did when it was released almost 40 years ago.

2015

Dec

DR. ZHIVAGO By David Bianculli

Great movie #1: This is “dead week” for TV, when even the premium cable networks, such as HBO and Showtime, basically kick back and take it easy. So with virtually no new Sunday night TV series shown tonight, in the quiet period between Christmas and New Year’s Day, the TV offerings to gravitate towards are movies. And here’s an excellent one: 1965’s Dr. Zhivago, directed by David Lean, and starring Omar Sharif and, at her most luminous, Julie Christie.

2015

Dec

SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL By David Bianculli

There’s another flex-time game presented tonight, and NBC has opted to televise the New York Giants, battling the Minnesota Vikings. There are playoff implications at stake here, but nothing seems more meaningful than what’s not happening – because Odell Beckham Jr., after his blatantly unsportsmanlike play last week, has been suspended for one game, and is ineligible to suit up tonight for the Giants.

2015

Dec

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST By David Bianculli

Great movie #2: This movie, directed by Milos Forman, is 40 years old – and next week, it will be 41. But it’s still as fresh as can be, and the antagonistic chemistry between Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, as patient and nurse, made stars of them both. The supporting cast is deep, and so is the story. If you’ve never seen it, please do.

2015

Dec

SCHINDLER'S LIST By David Bianculli

Great movie #3: Steven Spielberg’s WWII masterpiece – well, one of two of them, because there’s also Saving Private Ryan – is presented tonight, unedited and uninterrupted, on Showtime 2. And this 1993 biography of Oskar Schindler is a black-and-white triumph. Mostly black-and-white, that is, and when the color red makes an appearance, it’s haunting. Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley star.

2015

Dec

THE SHINING By David Bianculli

Great movie #4: Stanley Kubrick took Stephen King’s novel and changed parts of it significantly – some for the better, some not. But overall, this 1980 movie is among the best horror movies ever made. Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall star.

2015

Dec

LORD AND LADY GRANTHAM REFLECT ON THE IMPENDING END OF 'DOWNTON ABBEY' By David Hinckley

“I don’t think Hugh has gotten nearly enough credit for the way he’s played Robert,” says Elizabeth McGovern, who plays Lady Graantham of Downton Abbey. “I mean, Robert can be a bit of an idiot. But Hugh has made him into a character people really care about..."

2015

Dec

THE SOUND OF MUSIC LIVE! By David Bianculli

It turns out that Carrie Underwood wasn’t the most dynamic choice to star in this 2013 NBC telecast, which reintroduced the idea of musical theater on live television to a new generation. But the production of The Sound of Music Live! was immensely popular anyway, even with a problem like Maria. Stephen Moyer, co-starring as her male lead, wasn’t effectively dynamic either – but the songs and story worked, and the supporting cast included several who should have been playing le

2015

Dec

SWING TIME By David Bianculli

This 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical is presented tonight, by co-hosts Robert Osborne and Sally Field, as one of “The Essentials,” and it certainly is. But so is the movie that follows it, another Astaire-Rogers musical masterpiece made one year earlier: 1935’s Top Hat. So sit back, and enjoy the glamour, the music, and the unbridled talent. First up: Swing Time, in which Astaire plays a dancer who aims to impress his fiancé (Betty Furness), but ends up being muc

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