David Bianculli

David Bianculli appears in the following:

A perfect artistic union: Wes Anderson adapts Roald Dahl's singularly strange visions

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Netflix's anthology series presents four of Dahl's short stories — all of them written for the screen and directed by Anderson, and all of them featuring Dahl's dazzling, fairy-tale-book visuals.

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Apple TV+'s 'Morning Show' is running better than ever as it enters Season 3

Monday, September 18, 2023

The Morning Show enriches itself in its latest season by adding Jon Hamm to the cast and boring more deeply into a few major issues, including institutional racism and blackmail by computer hackers.

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Part fairy tale, part horror, 'The Changeling' is a drama that mostly satisfies

Friday, September 08, 2023

LaKeith Stanfield plays a young man who achieves his dreams and goals — only to have them descend into nightmares. While the ending of this Apple TV+ series underwlems, the acting keeps you watching.

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'Only Murders' returns for Season 3 with a new case to solve and surprises galore

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Hulu's comedy-mystery series is back, and solving the crime is only part of the fun when the unlikely podcasting trio played by Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez get involved.

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Here's what to watch during the ongoing writer's strike

Friday, August 04, 2023

The work stoppage has curtailed late-night talk shows and put the fall broadcast season in disarray. Critic David Bianculli says there's still some excellent TV to watch, if you know where to look.

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Two books capture the comedic genius of TV legends George Schlatter and Ernie Kovacs

Monday, July 24, 2023

Schlatter's autobiography Still Laughing is a compendium of stories about entertainers he's known and worked with. Ernie in Kovacsland is a treasure chest of memorabilia from Kovacs' shows.

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Lawman Raylan Givens returns in this daring, totally 'Justified' reboot

Monday, July 17, 2023

Timothy Olyphant once again plays Elmore Leonard's quick-tempered U.S. marshal in Justified: City Primeval, an eight-part sequel brimming with colorful, volatile characters.

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If you love film, you should be worried about what's going on at Turner Classic Movies

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced a shake-up at the network, which for years has offered a well curated film selection. Critic David Bianculli says TCM wasn't broken — and didn't need fixing.

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'Morimoto's Sushi Master' is as tasty as reality TV cooking can get

Friday, June 23, 2023

Eight sushi chefs compete at specific, well-designed challenges for head judge Masaharu Morimoto and celebrity chef judges in this six-part competition show on the Roku Channel.

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5 new 'Black Mirror' episodes have dropped — and there's not a dud in the bunch

Friday, June 16, 2023

These are the first new Black Mirror episodes since before the pandemic. The show continues to be among the best anthology TV series ever made.

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Little Richard Documentary celebrates the talent — and mystery — of a legend

Friday, June 02, 2023

A new PBS American Masters documentary showcases the influence of Little Richard, a dynamo performer who never let himself be defined for long by any one musical category or sexual identity.

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Hats off to an illuminating new documentary about Mary Tyler Moore

Monday, May 22, 2023

HBO's Being Mary Tyler Moore draws on interviews and home movies to create a complex portrait of Moore, from her complicated private life, to her groundbreaking career.

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Move over Studs Terkel: Obama's on the job in Netflix's modern take on 'Working'

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Hosted by the former president, this documentary series is a modern take on Terkel's influential 1974 book of interviews, cataloging the concerns of people on all levels of the economic scale.

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Pete Davidson is an endearing work in progress in 'Bupkis'

Tuesday, May 09, 2023

The former SNL cast member stars as a somewhat autobiographical, sometimes exaggerated version of himself in this entertaining new series, co-starring Edie Falco and Joe Pesci.

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'White House Plumbers' puts a laugh-out-loud spin on the Watergate break-in

Monday, May 01, 2023

Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux are co-conspirators in HBO's outrageous five-part series about the men behind the Watergate break-in. White House Plumbers is definitely worth seeing and savoring.

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This heavy-handed 'Fatal Attraction' reboot is weighed down by clunky detours

Thursday, April 27, 2023

The chemistry feels forced in this 8-part Paramount+ remake of the 1987 classic film. But great performances by Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan might just carry you through Fatal Attraction.

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Sinister twin sisters wield all the power in the latest 'Dead Ringers' adaptation

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The 1988 film Dead Ringers was told from a male point of view. Now Rachel Weisz masterfully plays twin gynecologists who are often at cross purposes in this six-episode Prime Video series.

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This recent 'Succession' was among the best hours of TV our critic has seen in years

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The third episode of Succession's fourth and final season ripped away the show's center in a brilliant and unexpected move. If you haven't seen it yet, it's time to catch up.

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Season 2 of 'Schmigadoon!' is bursting with enthusiasm and Broadway talent

Friday, March 31, 2023

This new season of the Apple TV+ series leans on musicals of the 1960s and '70s. Subtitled "Schmicago!," season 2 is tighter and better-plotted than the original, and also more inventive.

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Mel Brooks serves up more delightful surprises in 'History of the World: Part II'

Monday, March 06, 2023

In 1981, Brooks wrote, directed and starred in a collection of short comedy sketches, called History of the World: Part I. Forty-two years later, he's presenting an eight-episode TV sequel for Hulu.

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