This 2017 documentary biography examines the controversial career of pro tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, especially his volatile relationship with one of his most famous star students, Andre Agassi. But the coach can claim many other famous and accomplished former students as well, including Serena and Venus Williams, Monica Seles, and Maria Sharapova.

2018

Jun

'MARVEL'S LUKE CAGE' RETURNS AT A MORE DELIBERATE PACE By David Hinckley

Fans of recent blockbuster Marvel movies shouldn’t come to the second season of Luke Cage expecting anything like that relentless level of action...

2018

Jun

BRAIN ON FIRE By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This new Netflix premiere of a 2016 fact-based movie is based on the memoir by Susannah Cahalan, a young reporter for The New York Post who began to suffer symptoms – seizures, blackouts, memory loss – that baffled doctors and disrupted her work and home life. Chloe Grace Moretz stars as Susannah – and since I worked at the Post for six years a long, long time ago, I can say they at least got the general newsroom atmosphere right.

2018

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MARVEL'S LUKE CAGE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The expansive universe of Marvel Comics TV series on Netflix is an ambitious but mixed bag: Daredevil is quite good, Iron Fist is quite bad, and Luke Cage, which returns today with a new season, is somewhere in between. The best of all these shows is Marvel’s Jessica Jones, which transcends the genre with its character study of an emotionally scarred and wounded woman (played so well by Krysten Ritter) with enhanced abilities she doesn’t even want. Jessic

2018

Jun

2018 FIFA WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

The first game televised today is shown on Fox Sports 1, and is between two Group E teams still looking for their first wins: Brazil and Costa Rica (Costa Rica lost to Serbia, while the heavily favored Brazil tied with Switzerland). At 11 a.m. ET, the action switches to the Fox broadcast network, with Group D teams Nigeria and Iceland battling. Iceland, one of the surprise Davids in a tournament of Goliaths, managed a tie in its first game against the powerful Argentina (pictured), and hopes to

2018

Jun

12 MONKEYS By David Bianculli

Season 4 of 12 Monkeys continues to roll out in generous fashion, with episodes four through six of its final season premiering tonight in a mini-marathon. And while last week’s three episodes set the stage for the various Splinter time travelers to divide and (hope to) conquer, this week’s episode have them charging bravely into the past – including, among other locations, to the wild wild West.

2018

Jun

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is both an old and a new season of The Great British Baking Show on PBS, which is confusing but wonderful news. And now, an explanation: In England, when this delightful, oddly soothing baking competition show premiered on the BBC, it was televised under the title The Great British Bake Off, with its secret weapon being effusive and oh-so-British judge Mary Berry. After a handful of seasons, the increasingly popular series transferred to Britain’s Channel 4, dumping t

2018

Jun

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Among Maher’s guests this week: TV host Colion Noir and radio host and author Michael Smerconish. The latter, by the way, has impeccable and impressively obscure tastes in TV: I’ve been a guest on his show, and his questions and opinions regarding television were way, way above the norm.

2018

Jun

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Among tonight’s guests: Ocean’s 8 stars Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and (pictured) Sarah Paulson and Rhianna.

2018

Jun

'THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW' IS BACK AND AS DELICIOUS AS EVER By David Hinckley

There are two types of Brits on the telly...

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