Edward Norton wrote the screenplay adaptation of this Jonathan Lethem novel, but didn’t stop there. He also stars in, and directed, this 2019 movie about a detective in 1950s New York, who has Tourette syndrome, determined to solve the murder of his best friend. Co-stars include Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Cherry Jones, Bobby Cannavale, and Doctor Who veteran Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

2020

Jul

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY By David Bianculli

“I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it…” Tonight, as guest host of TCM’s The Essentials, Brad Bird, director of both Ratatouille and Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol, discusses and presents this 1968 masterwork by Stanley Kubrick. I’ve seen 2001: A Space Odyssey dozens of times, easily, and it always captivates me from the start. Two fun facts this time around: One, the man-apes

2020

Jul

SURVIVING JOE EXOTIC By David Bianculli

This is not a recommendation. Just an observation, that the best way of Surviving Joe Exotic is to avoid all TV programming that stars or is devoted to him. Including this new Animal Planet special…

2020

Jul

RADIOACTIVE By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Rosamund Pike stars as Marie Curie in this new dramatized biography, in which she holds aloft a small vial of radium and lectures her fellow scientists that this mysterious element “does not behave as it should.” The same certainly is true of the woman herself, as she stages two fights: to unlock the secrets hidden within radium and to fight for credit once her discoveries are made and confirmed. Radioactive is saddled with some unimaginative biopic tropes,

2020

Jul

HELMUT NEWTON: THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This new documentary, available starting today as an On Demand streaming offering, looks at the photography of Helmut Newton, as well as the reaction to it. Over the years, he framed pictures in which both fashion models and open-minded celebrities posed for him in provocative wardrobe, settings, and situations. This documentary includes new interviews with such former photographic subjects as Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, and Grace Jones – as well as with those

2020

Jul

GREAT PERFORMANCES: "SHE LOVES ME" By David Bianculli

This is a repeat, but it’s also a series launch – of a new summer series PBS is calling “Broadway at Home.” A summer-long series of Friday telecasts of staged plays and musicals captured for TV, it’s clearly reacting to the pandemic-era success of England’s “National Theatre at Home,” which ended its brilliant spring season yesterday with a gorgeous production of Amadeus. “Broadway at Home” begins tonight with another showing

2020

Jul

FOXY BROWN By David Bianculli

Long, long before there was Foxy Brown the rapper, there was Foxy Brown, the movie – the 1974 film starring Pam Grier in the title role. She plays the girlfriend of a federal agent killed by a kinky couple running a prostitution ring, and Foxy seeks revenge by going undercover as a prospective new employee. Grier is a powerful character here, as significant in cinema history in both gender and racial studies, and her performance here is best described as fierce. Co-star

2020

Jul

PBS IS LETTING US BRING BROADWAY HOME By Mike Hughes

In a theater-less season – no Broadway, no summer-stock musicals, nothing – we need a break. Fortunately, PBS is trying...

2020

Jul

THE FINAL SEASON OF 'ROOM 104' ARRIVES ON HBO By David Hinckley

It hasn't been easy to make a TV series these last few years that feels different since the avalanche of programming has filled just about every crack. HBO's Room 104...achieves "different."...

2020

Jul

1991: CBS DEBUTS SLAPSTICK SITCOM 'MORTON & HAYES' By TV WW

On this day in 1991, CBS introduced the creative comedy series, Morton & Hayes...

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