Pity the old-timer who, after seeing the posters and only half-watching the commercials, buys a ticket for “A Million Ways to Die in the West” without even a passing awareness of its co-writer, director and star, Seth MacFarlane. The poor guy may never leave his Barcalounger again.
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Considering that “Crossbones” is being marketed as a Blackbeard drama, it’s fairly disappointing that John Malkovich’s Blackbeard is around for less than 12 minutes of the premiere.
The Disney movie turns the tables on the studio’s 1959 animated classic — and undoes most of what you know and love about it — with this wildly revisionist live-action tale that creates a backstory for its most popular villain.
Girls just want to have fun. Guys just want to have the “Girls.” Nothing reminds you of this more quickly than back-to-back viewings of two shows at the Riviera, the venerable “Crazy Girls” and its young tables-turning roommate, “Men the Experience.”
Nothing promotes a live Las Vegas show like TV exposure. So Nathan Morris of Boyz II Men will be watching “The Bachelorette” for the very first time this week, because he is on it.
It’s not edgy. It’s not flashy. It doesn’t break any new ground.
Clam chowder is clam chowder is clam chowder? Not if you’re a fan of one type or another — but not both — and prefer either the creamy-white New England style or tomato-y-red Manhattan. It’s the latter that Shirley Bruss is seeking, and her fellow Taste of the Town readers have several suggestions for her.
“The Night Shift” is like the medical equivalent of the network’s “Chicago Fire”: pretty people you barely care about saving the lives of less-pretty people you don’t care about at all while you pay bills, fold laundry or play with your phone.
“Little Women: L.A.” (10 p.m. Tuesday, Lifetime) follows six little people living in Los Angeles.
Somewhere, there’s a family that’s the target audience for “Blended.”
You can get your Frank Marino and Frankie Moreno mixed up, but don’t be confusing their number of shows.
The cable channel is airing a marathon of 34 movies honoring servicemen and servicewomen, ranging from 1926’s World War I comedy-drama “The Better ‘Ole” to Clint Eastwood in 1970’s “Kelly’s Heroes.”
Now that’s how you make a summer blockbuster! There’s more sheer tonnage of awesomeness in the first 10 minutes of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” than in the entirety of “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”
Bernard’s not only brings the burbs a white-tablecloth-and-live-music experience with excellent service and fine, French-accented food, but it does it with an extremely varied menu and reasonable prices.
The drama, debuting Thursday, follows a detective who’s torn between his duties as a member of L.A.’s Gang Task Force and his ties to the neighborhood gang of his youth.