The year covered in this week’s installment in this dramatized Roger Ailes character study is 2008 – which means it’s the year his Fox News Channel covers, and reacts to, the evemntual election of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

2019

Jul

FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDENWALD By David Bianculli

This 2018 sequel to 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, like its predecessor, is written by J.K. Rowling, directed by Peter Yates, and stars Eddie Redmayne. But in this latest tale of wizardry and flights of fancy, there are new players as well, including Johnny Depp and Jude Law (pictured).

2019

Jul

GANDHI By David Bianculli

This 1982 biographical epic film about Mahatma Gandhi garnered a massive number of Academy Awards. Not only did it win the Oscar for Best Picture in 1983, but Ben Kingsley won for Best Actor for playing the title role, Richard Attenborough won for Best Director, John Briley for Best Original Screenplay, Ronnie Taylor and Billy Williams shared the Oscar for Best Cinematography, John Bloom won for Film Editing, and others won for Costume Design and Production Design. Oh, and watch for Candice Berg

2019

Jul

GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR CHRIS By David Bianculli

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing tomorrow, one of the cuts we played on Fresh Air today (Friday, July 19), was audio of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, singing his version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity". The sound is great, but to get to the full impact — as more than 43 million people have done on YouTube — you have to see the 2013 video...

2019

Jul

THE MAGIC OF PRODUCER RICK RUBIN AND 'SHANGRI-LA' ON SHOWTIME By David Hinckley

Some creative geniuses should not be asked to explain how they do it. Shangri-La, a four-part documentary that debuts at 9 p.m. ET Friday on Showtime, adds Rick Rubin to that list...

2019

Jul

SPONGEBOB'S BIG BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: When I poll my college students on which TV shows they’ve seen at least one full episode, the standard unanimous answers used to be The Twilight Zone, I Love Lucy, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Honeymooners. But that was a generation ago. These days, those shows rarely have reached more than half of the students in my classrooms, and a show like the original Star Trek has been seen by fewer than 10 percent. But in 2019, what one program is guarantee

2019

Jul

DARK VICTORY & GONE WITH THE WIND By David Bianculli

All day today, as part of its July tribute to Hollywood’s greatest year, TCM shows movies from the single, spectacular year of 1939. During the day, the range of films spreads from Shirley Temple in The Little Princess at 6:45 a.m. ET to William Powell and Myrna Loy in Another Thin Man at 6:15 p.m. ET. In prime time, only two movies from 1939 are televised, but what movies they are: Bette Davis in Dark Victory at 8 p.m. ET, followed at 10 p.m. ET by Vivien Lei

2019

Jul

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Part 2 of this galactic showdown has the S.H.I.E.L.D. crew hamstrung, and seemingly helpless, against Sarge, who may help them save the planet – but at a very significant cost. And the fact that this big bad villain, who has no problem threatening them at gunpoint and even shooting them, looks exactly like their former, heroic boss.

2019

Jul

JETT By David Bianculli

Jett has turned out to be a fun summer series – fast-moving, stylish, hard to predict, and fueled by some tasty performances, specifically Giancarlo Esposito and Gil Bellows as bad guys and, of course, Carla Gugino as this show’s resourceful, morally mysterious, sticky-fingered protagonist.

2019

Jul

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode finds a way for Liv (Rose McIver) to approach the latest murder case like an old-fashioned gumshoe – which means analogy-heavy narration and black-and-white photography. In other words, it’s a rare crossover subgenre: zombie noir.

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