This 1986 movie, directed by Rob Reiner, is another example of how the son of Carl Reiner has helmed, in many different genres, successful films (stylistically as well as financially) that show him to be a very gifted director. He’s perfect at being faithful to each film’s central conceit and flavor, and just as good working with actors, whether working on The Princess Bride, Misery, or This Is Spinal Tap! And with this coming-of-age period drama, based on a Steph

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HARLOTS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This series is set in London, about 20 years before the American revolution, and in its first two seasons has delighted in the power plays of the owners and operators of rival British brothels. The owners, like the prostitutes, are female (well, most of them), and their rises and falls here are substantial. Winners get to hobnob in the Royal Court, while losers get locked up in Bedlam. But in this new Season 3, those dynamics change again, quickly and significantly – not o

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LOVE ISLAND By David Bianculli

Just in case you watched and liked it last night – remember, this show appears each weeknight on CBS this summer, so it’s here, too…

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2019 ESPY AWARDS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: The annual mashup of sports and entertainment, with athletes rubbing elbows and fashion with actors, rappers and rock stars, is televised by both ABC and ESPN -- and hosted by Tracy Morgan.

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FLORIDA GIRLS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The characters and lifestyle from My Name Is Earl have a trailer-trash spiritual descendant in Florida Girls, a new comedy from Pop TV that’s basically about the type of women you might see, with blurred-out faces or speech, on any Florida episode of COPS. Lauren Chinn created this series, and stars as Shelby, one of a handful of twentysomething friends who live in a small Florida town with more goals and dreams than GEDs. As a summer TV diver

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'BLACK MIRROR' CONTINUES TO RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, REFLECTING THE BEST — AND WORST — SIDES OF OUR NATURE By Alex Strachan

For all the different ways Black Mirror depicts its dystopian worlds...one theme keeps emerging: For all technology’s advances, and some of them are truly astonishing, those advances always bring with them unintended consequences...

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A FLORIDA GIRL BRINGS 'FLORIDA GIRLS' TO POP By Mike Hughes

This isn't your usual TV-comedy turf. There's no supersized apartment, no super-fun job, no expectations. Florida Girls has four women sharing a messy home and a messy life...

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LOVE ISLAND By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Pay attention. The last times CBS saturated its airwaves with a new reality competition series, it was to launch Survivor, which changed the TV landscape in the year 2000, and Big Brother, which, like Survivor, is still around. I wish it weren’t, but that’s me. Anyway, this new series, stripped every weeknight beginning tonight, is CBS’s version of a hit reality dating show from England. And for a British account of that original&n

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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL By David Bianculli

Tuesdays in July, TCM is presenting “Out of This World,” its celebration of classic space exploration movies. And tonight’s lineup is so good, it’s like a time-travel trip through the. universe of seminal sci-fi films involving outer space. The voyage begins at 8 p.m. ET with The Day the Earth Stood Still (pictured) from1951. That’s followed by 1953’s War of the Worlds at 9:45 p.m. ET, then 1956’s Forbidden Planet at 11:30 p

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YEARS AND YEARS By David Bianculli

Now that we’re already two episodes into Years and Years, and the near-future plot has moved more than five years ahead, we’ve seen how Russell T. Davies has imagined our political tomorrow – which has us witnessing, in this what-if global political drama, not only the re-election of Donald Trump, but the election, in 2024, of… President Pence. And Emma Thompson, as a reactionary British headline-grabber who ascends to MP, has just taken the reins of power back

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