The 1989 TV miniseries Traffik, on which this 2000 movie was based, is even better and more detailed, but this movie version is no slouch. Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, starring Michael Douglas, won an Oscar, and its interwoven tale about drug trafficking remains tense and surprising, even in a condensed-for-cinema narrative.

2012

Aug

ALPHAS By David Bianculli

Among tonight’s guest stars is a genre favorite: Summer Glau, who made a strong first impression in Joss Whedon’s Firefly, and has starred, or been featured, in sci-fi and fantasy shows ever since. Tonight, she returns as a powerful “Alpha” whom the team is trying to find – and finding it easy. Just follow the trail of fire and devastation.

2012

Aug

WAREHOUSE 13 By David Bianculli

In a new episode that also features recurring guest star Lindsay Wagner, tonight’s Warehouse is big enough to also make room for a plot involving the magical artifact of Lewis Carroll’s mirror – and a very haunted, angry Alice, who wreaks havoc when, once again, she steps through the looking-glass.

2012

Aug

WEB THERAPY By David Bianculli

This episode of Web Therapy is a repeat of the season premiere, which is a good point for late-comers to dive in and see what kind of clever, sometimes improvised comedy Lisa Kudrow and her guests are doing here. In this episode, Kudrow, as self-obsessed (and self-deluded) web “therapist” Fiona, has her book manuscript passed on to, and judged harshly by, ex-nun editor Maxine DeMaine, played by Rosie O’Donnell.

2012

Aug

MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! By David Bianculli

Hal Holbrook, who is 87 years old as I write this and still performing (and endlessly rewriting) his one-man Mark Twain show on stage, now has to play “younger,” since the Twain of his stage show is 70 years old...

2012

Aug

'THE NEW NORMAL' IS TOO UNCONVENTIONAL FOR SALT LAKE CITY By Eric Gould

NBC's The New Normal is too unconventional for Salt Lake City: NBC's Utah affiliate KSL has deleted the sitcom from its fall schedule...

2012

Aug

TRUE BLOOD By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: It’s been a fast, furious and sometimes perplexing season for True Blood, with subplots both sublime (Tara and Pam) and ridiculous (the post-Lost Smoke Monster). And tonight’s fifth-season conclusion has Russell (Denis O’Hara) finally achieving his obsessive goal, and drinking of fairy blood. So now, intoxicated and empowered by the taste of the late fairy queen, he now takes aim at all the other fairies – including Sookie (Anna Paquin).

2012

Aug

BREAKING BAD By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode ended with Walter (Bryan Cranston) staring coldly, and Jesse (Aaron Paul) screaming frantically, as an angry Mike (Jonathan Banks) aims a gun at Walter’s head. “Everybody wins,” Walter tells him calmly, when Jesse begs that Walter has a plan to solve all their problems. Tonight, we hear the details of that plan. However, I’m not as optimistic as Walter is about things ending well. Not on this series.

2012

Aug

COPPER By David Bianculli

In tonight’s second episode of this boldly different new police procedural, Corcoran (Tom Weston-Jones) solves the case of the dead little girl – while trying to protect someone who looks very much like her. And with good reason.

2012

Aug

THE NEWSROOM By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Based on the promos, a lot is packed into this week’s first-season finale, including a stalker who’s sent death threats to Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), who ends up in the hospital. But that’s not Will’s only serious problem. Also in this episode, he meets with network owner Leona (Jane Fonda), who compliments him in one sentence, then fires him the next. But The Newsroom will return next season, so expect Will McAvoy to do the same. Sorkin’s clever eno

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