Saving Mr. Banks, the new movie about the making of the Mary Poppins movie, opens Friday. Meanwhile, ABC Family repeats the original: 1964’s movie musical, giving Julie Andrews her first starring film role, opposite Dick Van Dyke. Good timing – and fun family movie.

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INSIDE THE NFL By David Bianculli

With playoff ramifications in almost every other game this year, this show’s postgame breakdown – and next week’s pregame projections – are as enjoyable as the NFL Films-enhanced highlights, which go well beyond the usual big plays. There’s a reason this series, which started on HBO in 1977 before moving to Showtime, is one of cable’s oldest continuing weekly series.

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Dec

MOB CITY By David Bianculli

CONCLUSION: TNT’s six-hour Frank Darabont mob drama comes to an end, at least for this season, as Bugsy Siegel gets set for trial and the LAPD gets ready for more rounds of mob violence.

2013

Dec

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This repeat of Sunday’s episode gives viewers another chance to catch, or a chance to review, the game-changing events of the series’ season-ending episode. As with the recent season finale of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, it packs quite a punch, and a second viewing shows how well everything was foreshadowed.

2013

Dec

THE ZOMBIES IN MY DVR By Jonathan Storm

The Walking Dead is not lurching across my TV because too many zombie series are clogging the apparatus. Not shows about zombies, but ones that are zombies -- lying, undead, waiting to rise up at my command...

2013

Dec

TOY STORY By Eric Gould

Here are Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, from last year, doing a sweet backstage version of Mariah Carey’s soon-to-be-classic holiday song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” – all on grade school rhythm instruments or toys like a Fisher Price xylophone...

2013

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THE FUGITIVE By David Bianculli

Made 20 years ago, this movie version of the classic Sixties TV series flipped the central dynamic unintentionally, but very effectively, making this one of the better TV-to-film efforts ever produced. On TV, David Janssen’s Richard Kimble ran away with the show (in one sense, literally). But in this movie, though we root for Harrison Ford’s Kimble, it’s Tommy Lee Jones as his pursuing adversary who really keeps things moving. And moving. And moving even faster.

2013

Dec

HOLIDAY AFFAIR By David Bianculli

Made in 1949, this holiday romance is building, year by year, into one of the films considered part of the annual Christmas movie canon. It stars Robert Mitchum as a sales clerk at a department store, and Janet Leigh as a corporate spy who shops at his place to check out the competition – and they end up checking out each other instead. For both leads, the roles were substantial changes of pace. Mitchum, known as a hard-boiled film noir tough guy, plays it sweeter and meeker here – w

2013

Dec

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last night, finalist Tessanne Chin and her coach, Adam Levine, pulled off something lots of prime-time shows, from The Voice and American Idol to Fame, have attempted but failed in recent years: providing a strong, original take on a Beatles song. The song was “Let It Be,” and it was solid throughout, though it was the final shift to a reggae beat that propelled it to a higher stratosphere. Will that performance be enough to earn her this year’s title? Listen, do

2013

Dec

HOW SHERLOCK HOLMES CHANGED THE WORLD By David Bianculli

The motivation for this two-hour PBS special is no mystery, and the only thing that’s afoot is a patently obvious exercise in cross-promotion. PBS presents Masterpiece Mystery!, which has a new season of Sherlock returning next year – so why not spend two hours celebrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous literary creation as the father of modern forensics? Well, because that’s far too much TV time to assert a simple point – and, besides, it’s arguable as a pos

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