Think you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Wrong. Even though it would seem that every single possible private eye, buddy and private eye/buddy scenario has already been done -- and probably done to death --...
September 08, 2010 12:00 AM
OF HUMAN BONDAGE (1964) Monday, 4 p.m., TCM The third remake of W. Somerset Maugham’s wondrous novel of love and obsession stars the impossibly beautiful Kim Novak and the even more impossibly beautiful Laurence...
September 05, 2010 3:53 AM
The mad gunman had five live bombs strapped to his body. He took two employees and one security guard hostage. More than 100 children were in a daycare center in the building at the time, as were 2,000 employees....
September 03, 2010 12:00 AM
Remember when we used to watch the Oscars and the Emmys just to see stars behaving badly and dressing like Las Vegas hookers? Alas, handlers, stylists and spokespeople have taken over and now everyone on these...
September 01, 2010 12:00 AMNow that's what I call an awards show! I laughed! I cried! I loved it! I always wanted to say that! The 62nd Emmy Awards -- dopey jokes aside -- was probably the singularly most entertaining show in which the...
August 30, 2010 12:00 AMPAL JOEY (1957) Wednesday, 12 a.m., TCM Frank Sinatra is Joey, a louse whose dreams of owning a nightclub begin to come true when he plays on the affections of a former stripper, Vera (Rita Hayworth) who has become a...
August 29, 2010 3:47 AM
If you've about had it with TV spies, terror ists, explosions, Palestinian bad guys, fantastical plots, beautiful female agents and gorgeous male mercenaries, have I got a show for you. It's a three-part series by...
August 28, 2010 12:00 AM
The blogosphere is all (sorry) atwitter over little Sally Draper's masturbation scene on Sunday night's "Mad Men." And for all the wrong reasons. They think that 11-year-old actress Kiernan Shipka being made to...
August 26, 2010 12:00 AMMarriage, it's enough to make you lose faith in mankind -- emphasis here on man. At least that's the way you may feel after watching a few of the fascinating, scary, nearly incomprehensible true stories on ID's new...
August 25, 2010 12:00 AM
If the first name you think of when you think "sex scene" is Steve Buscemi, then you're not alone. There are at least two other people who agree with you. Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, the guys behind HBO's...
August 23, 2010 12:00 AMRELIGULOUS (2008) Sunday, 2:30 p.m., SHOe Bill Maher and “Borat” director Larry Charles set out to prove that organized religions are wacky and dangerous. They go to the Creationist Museum — dedicated to showing that...
August 22, 2010 12:28 AM
When are the suits in Hollywood going to figure out that reality shows about "the glamorous world of celebrity PR" are doomed to fail? It didn't work for powerhouse celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman, ("PoweR Girls...
August 21, 2010 12:00 AM
Oh, the drama! Oh, the angsting! Oh, the makeup! Fifteen pounds thinner than she was in Season 1 and looking more gorgeous than ever, Kim Kardashian is back with knockout sisters Khloe and Kourtney to see what else...
August 19, 2010 12:00 AM
Question: What is more disgusting, despicable and stupid: simulating oral sex for a primetime TV show? Or calling a reporter "disgusting," "despicable" and "stupid" for asking a question about it? This week, TV...
August 18, 2010 12:00 AM
Oh, no -- can it really be an other sitcom about a grown son moving back home after failing big time in the big city? Yes. But not, "oh, no." Even though it seems like that scenario has been worked over more than...
August 17, 2010 12:00 AM
Now that "Pawn Stars" and the Harrison family have become the hottest things to hit the strip since strip joints, everybody wants to cash in. Enter TruTV's new show, "Hardcore Pawn," a reality show about a suburban...
August 16, 2010 12:00 AMMEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) Sunday, 3:45 p.m., TCM While this classic is a fave with Judy Garland fans, it’s on so often that even die-hard (see below) fans must be fleeing. The innocent musical with Judy and Margaret...
August 15, 2010 5:03 AMShe might be 7, but she's actually 10 -- in real life, that is. I'm talking about every preschooler's favorite little adventurer, "Dora The Explorer," who celebrates her 10th birthday Sunday night on Nickelodeon...
August 13, 2010 12:00 AM
Ever notice how newspapers and other media outlets that are so proud of staying out of the muck of sex and scandal manage to sneak their way into it by reporting on how other outlets shamelessly get down and dirty?...
August 12, 2010 12:00 AM
In the 1970s, young reporter Geraldo Rivera, looking to make his bones as an investigative journalist, took cameras inside the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island. What he found shocked a nation. Hundreds...
August 11, 2010 12:00 AM
I have never been able to figure out whether January Jones is the best actress on TV or the worst. It's three episodes into Season 4 of "Mad Men," and I still don't know the answer to that question, but I do know...
August 10, 2010 12:00 AM
I may go straight to hell but, God help me, ABC has come up with a "Bachelor" show that I actually like. I know. I'm very ashamed. Yes, their newest show, "Bachelor Pad," which could be called "Bachelor Dumpster,"...
August 09, 2010 12:00 AM
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) Monday, 6 p.m., TCM Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were never more beautiful than as Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, the notorious Depression-era couple. He’s a bank robber and she’s the small...
August 08, 2010 2:59 AM
If you love dogs -- or more importantly, if you don't love dogs -- you must absolutely watch Nat Geo's new special "And Man Created Dog," a history of the mystery of our best-loved companions. Starting at the...
August 06, 2010 12:00 AM
The newest city to be humiliated by the bottom feeders known as "Real Housewives" is Washington, DC. But, as low on the social scale as they already are, this latest crop of knuckleheads has nowhere to go but...
August 05, 2010 12:00 AM
It looked so right on paper -- and in the paper. Hiring Kara DioGuardi for "American Idol," I mean. She's pretty, she's toned and she's talented -- a singer/songwriter with more hits than A-Rod. So what went so...
August 03, 2010 12:00 AMMICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) Sunday, 7:15 a.m., AMC Six Oscar nominations and one win for Tilda Swinton in this thriller about a jaded, NYC “fixer” attorney (George Clooney) at a white-shoe law firm. Clayton is sent to fix...
August 01, 2010 1:48 AM
It looks like AMC is three-for-three with their newest original drama, "Rubicon," a throwback espionage thriller that takes place in the present -- if the present were more like the 1970s than the 2000s. "Rubicon"...
July 31, 2010 12:00 AM
The most interesting change on the new season of "Jersey Shore" is that it's no longer a show about Italian-American idiots. Now, it's just a show about American idiots. Bowing to complaints about blatant...
July 28, 2010 12:00 AM
Here's a sure-fire recipe for success that even an amateur chef can master: Take one hugely successful UK show and add one famously arrogant and colorful TV chef (a real handful). Stir in a generous amount of...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AM
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