MUSIC DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: In 1974, the then-reclusive Bob Dylan embarked on a comeback reunion tour of sorts, joining with his “Basement Tapes” cohorts The Band on a high-intensity, high-volume national tour. I saw one leg of that tour, at a January 1974 concert in the Everglades in Hollywood, FL. The following year, Dylan gathered a new set of cohorts, and began what he called the Rolling Thunder Revue. At first, it was an ad hoc adventure on a rather small scale, then morphed int

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Jun

THE HANDMAID'S TALE By David Bianculli

Last week, The Handmaid’s Tale returned for Season 3 with a triple-header of new episodes, established June’s new position, and problems, after staying behind rather than escaping, as Emily did, to Canada and freedom. In Gilead, June still has Serena to deal with, but in a vastly different dynamic – and that goes for Aunt Lydia as well. Today, Hulu presents the next installment in this dystopian saga.

2019

Jun

2019 STANLEY CUP FINALS By David Bianculli

A Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals has happened only 17 times in the Cup’s long history. Tonight will be number 18, with the Boston Bruins facing the St. Louis Blues for the right to take home the Cup. The last Game 7 was in 2001, when the Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks. The Blues were swept in their three previous finals appearances, so even getting to a Game 7 represents three more Stanley Cup Finals victories than the team has experienced before this year. So in a winner-take-all sit

2019

Jun

ARCHER: 1999 By David Bianculli

This season of Archer, called Archer: 1999, has our comatose hero dreaming about, and placing himself and his spy colleagues in imagined versions of, all manner of sci-fi movie tropes. This week’s, called “The Leftovers,” is about a mysterious alien creature discovered on board, who morphs into an increasingly dangerous – and, in this case, ravenous – deadly monster. And in Archer’s imagined scenario, guess who happen to be the titular leftovers?

2019

Jun

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID By David Bianculli

There’s not much to watch on TV tonight – but so long as one of my all-time favorite movies is being presented in prime time, uncut and uninterrupted and in widescreen, I’ve got no complaints. So sit back and watch screenwriter William Goldman and director George Roy Hill’s collaboration on a perfect Western, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross. This fabulous film is now 50 years old. Fifty. But it still seems so fresh, so funny, and so endlessly quota

2019

Jun

MEDIUM COOL By David Bianculli

Here’s another movie that’s now 50 years old. And though it hasn’t aged as well as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (partly because it wasn’t a period piece to begin with), Medium Cool is very much a fascinating trapped-in-amber slice of its times. And in director Haskell Wexler’s 1969 movie, most of the background drama has to do with all the volatility surrounding the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Robert Forster stars, playing a TV camera operator coverin

2019

Jun

STRAIGHT FORWARD By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new crime series is a co-production between Scandinavia and New Zealand, which makes for an unusual viewing experience: most of the drama is in English, but the rest is in Danish, with subtitles. It begins in Copenhagen, and shifts to Queenstown, and the story itself is similarly bifurcated. A Danish con woman, played by Cecilie Stenspil, targets a crime kingpin (Mark Mitchinson) for killing her father. What begins as a tale of revenge, though, shifts as her plan goes south

2019

Jun

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF By David Bianculli

This 1986 comedy is one of John Hughes’ most beloved movies, which is saying something. Matthew Broderick stars in what remains, after all this time, one of his most memorable and indelible roles. Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey and Jeffrey Jones co-star.

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