Ai Weiwei is an outspoken artist who has been jailed, prosecuted and persecuted by the Chinese government, yet defiantly becomes more visible, and more vocal, after every punishment inflicted upon him by the state. One inventively aggressive counter-move by the artist: after his release from prison, he installed four constantly operating webcams in his home, putting himself under global surveillance to catch any intrusions or abuses by government forces. What drives someone to be so brazenly and

2015

Oct

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

So what if we’ve found water on Mars? What’s the big deal? On hand to explain, as scheduled guests on this week’s Real Time with Bill Maher, are evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

2015

Oct

THE HAUNTING By David Bianculli

Here's the best of tonight's TCM "haunted house" movies: This slow-building but jarringly effective 1963 horror movie was directed by Robert Wise, two years after he made the film version of West Side Story and two years before he directed another screen musical, The Sound of Music. This film, by contrast, is anything but a tune-filled romp: Julie Harris stars as one of a small group of people terrorized by what appears to be a paranormal entity, and a sinister one at that. Also among the stars:

2015

Oct

THE LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST BEARD-ATHON (PAST/PRESENT) By Ed Bark

There’s a growth spurt among past and present late night talk show hosts -- and it has nothing to do with how many there are to choose from. Simply put, beards are busting out all over...

2015

Oct

ABC SHOULD HAVE LET 'DR. KEN' CALL IN SICK By Ed Bark

The opening minutes of ABC’s Dr. Ken include a little colonoscopy humor. Although no one looks forward to one, it’s preferable to enduring the first two episodes of this painfully forced new comedy...

2015

Oct

BONES By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is a little hard to believe, but Bones, with tonight’s episode, is embarking on the start of Season 11. That’s a long, very successful run for a drama series that, for the most part, has swooped under the radar for most of its run. Yet here it is again, and, again, is shaking things up a bit, by picking up the narrative six months after the events that ended last season.

2015

Oct

HEROES REBORN By David Bianculli

This is Episode 2 of this series reboot’s planned 13-episode run, and last week’s series premiere made it seem as though this show, like ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Fox’s new Minority Report, is built around the same basic dramatic scaffolding: people with unusual abilities are being hunted by others who are frightened of their potential power. And this week, we get to meet more of them – and, just maybe, see some old familiar faces from the old

2015

Oct

THE BLACKLIST By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Liz, like Red, is now a most-wanted fugitive, and the two of them begin Season 3 on the run together. And before too long, they’re making some changes in order to evade capture – like, for example, Liz’s hair color.

2015

Oct

GIGI DOES IT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This series is spun off from a web series, and is an expanded version of the same central conceit: David Krumholtz, totally hidden behind makeup and prosthetics, playing the title role of a straight-talking grandmother named Gigi. The makeup is by one of the team behind Bad Grandpa, and some scenes are staged with a similar approach, fooling unsuspecting people as in Candid Camera or Punk’d. Some of those moments are amusing, but not enough. For Krumholtz, it’s an ac

2015

Oct

LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT By David Bianculli

More politics on Colbert’s very politically attuned Late Show: One of tonight’s scheduled guests is Secretary of State John Kerry.

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