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TV Club : Other Shows The Central Park Five

Ken Burns breaks from his usual style to look back on a 1989 assault and rape case in New York’s Central Park.

April 16, 2013 | 2:00pm -
Films That Time Forgot William Shatner negotiates with terrorists in The Kidnapping Of The President

When kidnappers demand $100 million for the return of President Hal Holbrook, it’s up to the CIA to ransom him, or save him, or something.

April 15, 2013 | 10:00am -
The Gameological Society Pinning down the exact moment that Family Feud become all about dick jokes

Richard Dawson has never seemed more tasteful.

April 14, 2013 | 11:59pm -
Movie Review Antiviral

David Cronenberg’s son Brandon makes his debut with a Cronenbergian tale of body commodification.

April 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Taxi asks, “How much of a sitcom needs to be comedic?”

Before Girls and Louie, a different Louie pushed the boundaries of TV comedy.

April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -
Watch This Bingo Long mashes up ’70s tropes with a story about black indie baseballers

Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones lead a stellar cast in John Badham’s rollicking lesson in baseball history.

April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -
HomeVideo Review Howdy, Kids!! A Saturday Afternoon Western Roundup / Captain Cornelius Cartoon’s Cartoon Lagoon, Vol. 1

A pair of new TV sets offer entertainment from bygone eras.

April 10, 2013 | 12:00am -
Comics Panel New comics releases include alternate-history fantasy-horror and a colorful foodie memoir

Also reviewed: Valiant’s first crossover, East Of West, and the latest Devastator.

April 9, 2013 | 12:00pm -
For Our Consideration Star Wars goes disco and other crassly commercial hits of the “Medley Age”

An era of novelty music strip-mined pop culture for fleeting chart hits, and it was truly terrible.

April 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A What did Roger Ebert mean to you?

The world’s most famous film critic was so much more than that.

April 5, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Simon Killer

Director Antonio Campos follows up Afterschool with another disturbing portrait of alienation and violence.

April 4, 2013 | 12:06am -
Movie Review Andre Gregory: Before And After Dinner

The André of My Dinner With André continues the conversation.

April 4, 2013 | 12:04am -
A Very Special Episode Hogan’s Heroes’ unceremonious finale comes from the era before TV “endgames”

In the pre-serialization age, the practicalities of filling a timeslot took precedence over authorial intent.

April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Gateways To Geekery Where to start with Elvis Presley’s uneven yet charismatic film career

Presley had such a larger-than-life quality that he’s often fascinating apart from what’s going on around him onscreen.

April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Smash “The Parents”

Bernadette Peters delivers a socko song in an otherwise stinko Smash.

April 3, 2013 | 12:40am -
TV Roundtable It’s okay to laugh at It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s musical trainwreck

Enter the Dayman.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
HomeVideo Review Dirk Gently

A BBC Four series captures the spirit of Douglas Adams’ irreverent comic mystery novel.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Ghosts”

Justified ends its fantastic fourth season with bold moves and tragic blunders.

April 2, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Inventory It’s time to move on, it’s time to get going: 17 solo albums (and one single) that effectively doomed bands

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April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas is a bleary indictment of society’s ills

Terry Gilliam’s adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous book accomplishes a difficult task.

April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -
For Our Consideration The accent grave: Why don’t Americans play Americans on TV anymore?

Actors doing accents discounts the diversity of the real world and diminishes the reality of the character.

March 28, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Blancanieves

Pablo Berger’s silent, black-and-white take on Snow White couldn’t be further from The Artist.

March 28, 2013 | 12:06am -
Movie Review Room 237

Rodney Ascher’s superb essay-doc compares elaborate theories about the meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

March 28, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Smash “The Bells & Whistles”

Smash finds focus, perhaps in time to salvage something out of this sputtering season.

March 27, 2013 | 2:04am -
HomeVideo Review Monsieur Verdoux

Charles Chaplin reinvented himself with this post-WWII serial-killer comedy.

March 27, 2013 | 12:01am -
TV Roundtable The 7th Heaven musical is one of the worst episodes of TV ever made

Watch as our panel attempts to survive its stultifying stupidity with sanity intact!

March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Justified “Peace Of Mind”

Unfinished business leads to some anxious moments on another excellent Justified.

March 26, 2013 | 10:00pm -
Comics Panel New comics releases include a trio of great graphic novels and the rebirth of Constantine

Also reviewed: Two Hellboy spinoffs, a Will Eisner short-story collection, and an unnecessary Wolverine book.

March 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This Hearts Of Darkness goes downriver with the creators of Apocalypse Now

How a making-of documentary adapts Joseph Conrad more effectively than the movie itself.

March 25, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Gimme The Loot

In an exhilarating indie, writer-director Adam Leon follows two Bronx graffiti artists looking to “Bomb The Apple.”

March 21, 2013 | 12:04am -

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