SERIES PREMIERE: Naomi Watts, who’s also seen currently on Showtime’s Twin Peaks: The Return, stars in Netflix’s latest series, playing a therapist who gets very invested in the lives of her patients – too involved. As Season 1, which drops today on Netflix, opens, for example, her Jean Holloway becomes so fascinated by a patient’s description of his former lover, a woman with such sexual magnetism and freewheeling energy that he can’t forget her, that Jean be

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KILLJOYS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For Season 3 of this “bounty hunters in space” Syfy series, Killjoys is doubling down on the mystery it introduced at the end of last season: That Dutch, the bounty hunter played by Hannah John-Kamen, became aware of an evil lookalike, an alien ruler named Aneela (pictured). She, or they, join a long list of TV doubles, doppelgangers, and clones, which I happen to discuss in my latest column for TV Guide Magazine. That’s not me being cross-promotional. It&rsquo

2017

Jun

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s tense and messy baking competition revolves around a trio of tricky tasks, including an impromptu demand to make, after just one practice try, a dozen well-formed lace pancakes, in the shape of hearts. Batter up! Check local listings.

2017

Jun

A LITTLE ROMANCE By David Bianculli

Diane Lane, as an actress, has enchanted me for decades – and that enchantment begin with this 1979 movie, which was her cinematic debut. It was a starring role, too, in which she, as a young teenager, played a young teenager – an American girl who attends school in Paris, meets a young French boy (Thelonious Bernard, in what was his screen debut as well), and falls in love, with encouragement from an elderly French grifter, played by Laurence Olivier. A Little Romance is directed, w

2017

Jun

SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL'S ‘AMERICA IN COLOR’ BRIGHTENS HISTORY WITHOUT BLIGHTING IT By Ed Bark

Led by Ted Turner, the colorization of feature films craze peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s after his company acquired the MGM library and sought to further monetize it...

2017

Jun

WITH ‘PRETTY LITTLE LIARS,’ TV FOUND A SMARTER WAY TO REACH YOUNG VIEWERS By David Hinckley

You may not have noticed that one of the biggest success stories over the last seven years of television finished its run Tuesday night...

2017

Jun

UM, WHAT THE… By Eric Gould

Would that there were an easy or obvious description of this short that has been making the rounds since last week. A visit to filmmaker David Lewandowski's website leaves it simply at: “Time for Sushi is the latest in a series of short films inspired by an obsessive passion for nonsense..."

2017

Jun

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? By David Bianculli

Mike Nichols made his cinematic directorial debut with this sizzling 1966 drama, a year before injecting movie history with a strong dose of youth serum by releasing The Graduate. This tense, raw argumentative character study – based on the play by Edward Albee, written and staged only four years earlier – stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis, who play two couples mired in the political, competitive and stiflingly insular world of academia. It’

2017

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THE GRIFTERS By David Bianculli

This 1990 movie, directed by Stephen Frears with an obvious (and successful) goal of producing a modern, sexy, creepy exemplification of film noir, is driven by a trio of superlative performances. John Cusack plays a con man torn between two con women, played by Annette Bening and Anjelica Huston. One portrays his girlfriend, the other his mother – and both, like Cusack, are unforgettable.

2017

Jun

BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This is so depressing. It’s depressing enough to realize that I was a working TV critic (in my first year, but still) back when the first Battle of the Network Stars was televised by ABC in 1976. That one was hosted by Howard Cosell, and the participants – divided into teams representing one of the three (count ’em, three) networks – included Robert Conrad, Telly Savalas, Ron Howard, Farrah Fawcett, Lynda Carter, and a surpri

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