Linda Stasi
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Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Sunday, 8:45 a.m., Cinemax Two teens fall in love in the summer of 1965 and cause no end of aggravation in Wes Anderson’s best movie. Suzy (Kara...
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall 2008 Sunday, 2 p.m., FX Be prepared to double over for this movie, about a heartsick slacker of a composer (Jason Segel) who flies to Hawaii to...
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City Slickers 1991 Sunday, 4 p.m., IFC A really hilarious and sometimes touching movie about three middle aged big city guys — Daniel Stern, Billy Crystal and Bruno Kirby —...
Starz's 'White Queen' a royal winner
Now that “The Tudors” has been off the air a while — and Henry VIII (aka Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has gone undead and will rise again as “Dracula” on NBC...
Syfy looks at world of make-believe reality in 'Heroes of Cosplay'
I’m so confused—or maybe they are. In case you don’t know, (and I sure didn’t), there are hundreds of thousands of people around the world who spend millions upon millions...
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The Endless Summer 1966 Sunday, 12:15 p.m., ESPN Bruce Brown’s 1966 documentary, perhaps the greatest surfing movie ever made, follows California surfers as they travel the globe in search of...
Looking good: ‘Hell’ hunk Anson sets ‘Wheels’ in motion
The primitive-looking man dressed in animal skins sits alone inside a broken-down cabin that’s covered in snow. The icy winds blow without mercy through the cracks between the boards as...
Past pageant winners pay it forward in 'Obsessed With the Dress'
We’re so used to women behaving badly on reality TV, especially when it involves money and glitz, that when they’re well-behaved — and, even more surprising, polite — it’s as...
'Clear History' has a funny bone to pick
If you’re still laughing at old episodes of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” then for sure you’ll laugh so hard at Larry David’s new HBO movie, “Clear History,” that you may end...
'Real Housewives of New Jersey' an insult to all Italian-Americans
Now that the revolting Giudices — the sleaziest duo since Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer — have finally been indicted, isn’t it time for the criminally bad “Real Housewives of...
'View' original Joy Behar tapes her final show
‘The View” from here is changing at the speed of klieg lights. The long-running ABC gabfest took its biggest hit yet yesterday when Joy Behar made her exit in a...
The CW's 'Capture' is 'The Hunger Games' of TV
What would you get if “The Hunger Games” and “Survivor” met on one of those horrific, formerly bucolic paradises that have become the go-to locales for cheesy reality shows? If...
Peter Sarsgaard's evil role in 'The Killing' deserves Emmy props
They sure had a big one last night. A killing on “The Killing,” I mean. The series, which spends too much time tricking us, began the night by tricking us...
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Moonrise Kingdom 2012 Tuesday, 9:35 a.m., HBOSGe A wonderful, quirky, perfect movie for these hot, hot days. It’s 1960s New England, and 12-year-olds Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward)...
It’s murder out there
The mob and the mobsters of what Nat Geo calls “the golden age of the Mafia” might be dead — but like Billy the Kid and other psycho killers of...
Creepy politicians and bungled bribes
Big Weiner Show Who cares about “Under The Dome” when we have “Under The Pants” starring recalcitrant flasher/mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner and his pathetic wife, Huma(liation). Their horrifying press conference...
Joke’s on us in mediocre 'Would You Fall For That?'
If you tune into ABC’s new hidden-camera series expecting the big laughs you used to get from, say, “Candid Camera” or the hilarious Canadian series “Just For Laughs,” chances are...
'Questions' abound for Syfy's Joe Rogan
Let me be the first to confirm: There is no such thing as Sasquatch — aka, Big Foot. And Joe Rogan, host of a new Syfy show, “Joe Rogan Questions...
Legendary find on ‘Secrets of the Dead: Bones of the Buddha'
Are those the bones of Buddha or is this Al Capone’s vault all over again? If you were alive in the 1890s, when an amateur archeologist by the name of...
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Brokeback Mountain 2005 Sunday, 8 p.m., TCM Three Oscars, including Best Director for Ang Lee, went to this extraordinary movie about two gay caballeros in the early 1960s — when...