Tonight’s continuation of the 10 [INSERT PLURAL NOUN HERE] That Changed America series of PBS specials looks at Homes – everything from a 15th-century Taos pueblo mud-brick community and mid-19th century New York tenement to Frank Lloyd Wright’s still-iconic Fallingwater home (pictured), constructed in 1937 partly atop a waterfall, in Mill Run, PA. So long, Frank Lloyd Wright. I can’t believe your song is gone so soon… Check local listings.

2018

Jul

MAKING IT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman from Parks & Recreation star in this new NBC series, a TV competition devoted to arts and crafts. Leslie Knope, for sure, would have entered this contest. Ron Swanson? Not so likely.

2018

Jul

SCENES FROM TCA: THE BACKBONE OF TOM ARNOLD, THE BACKSIDE OF BOB ODENKIRK, AND A CLAM UP FROM BOBBY BROWN By Roger Catlin

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — It takes a clown to take down another. That’s the basis of Tom Arnold’s ambitious The Hunt for the Trump Tapes coming to Viceland Sept. 18...

2018

Jul

MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS VAL LEWTON By David Bianculli

If you’re a film lover, always watch anything that’s presented, and especially hosted, by Martin Scorsese. You can’t go wrong, and this 2007 documentary tribute to filmmaker Val Lewton is a prime example. If you don’t know why you should get excited about the producer of such low-budget horror films as 1942’s Cat People (pictured) and 1945’s The Body Snatcher, Scorsese will explain it all for you.

2018

Jul

DIETLAND By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week, Plum (Joy Nash) committed to a new direction by her very inactions. She refused to kill a man when told to, and also refused to go through with her weight-loss surgery. Tonight, she faces a tribunal to defend herself… but against which case of inertia?

2018

Jul

ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE By David Bianculli

This is one of the Martin Scorsese-directed movies least associated with the work of Scorsese, but this early work, from 1974, is just as unblinking a character study, in its own way, as such much more violent and male-oriented Scorsese movies as Taxi Driver. In Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Ellen Burstyn stars as a woman whose husband dies suddenly, leaving her to care for her young son by taking a job as a waitress in a small Arizona diner. Such subsequently more familiar Scorsese act

2018

Jul

THE 2000S: "THE I DECADE" By David Bianculli

The “i” in tonight’s title is supposed to be lower case, indicating that it’s all about the onset, and onslaught, of 21st century technology and social media. Those of us who lived through that decade, and that’s almost all of us (unless you’re a very precocious reader and TV viewer), may be stunned, in retrospect, to see how quickly everything changed. Apple’s original iPod was introduced in the projected year of Stanley Kubrick’s space odyssey, w

2018

Jul

SHARP OBJECTS By David Bianculli

Part 4. In tonight’s episode, Camille (Amy Adams) agrees to take Det. Willis (Chris Messina) on a personal guided tour of Wind Gap’s infamous crime and scandal scenes – in exchange for him agreeing to answer some of her questions for the newspaper articles she’s writing. If you haven’t done so yet since starting Sharp Objects, revisit 2009’s Julie & Julia, in which Messina and Adams play husband and wife, displaying an easy chemistry that recurs in this HB

2018

Jul

THE HISTORY OF COMEDY: "DRAWN TO BE FUNNY" By David Bianculli

I haven’t seen this new History of Comedy installment, which is all about humor in animation. But when it comes to television, if it’s a well-researched hour, it’ll start with Crusader Rabbit, Jay Ward’s pioneering precursor to his “Rocky & Bullwinkle” series, syndicated circa 1950.

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