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2013
Jun
6
 
 
I’m just gonna go ahead and say it. USA Network's new drama Graceland is nothing to get all shook up about...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
 
 
Very recent events have made this 1996 movie unfortunately timely, and uncomfortably prescient: a huge and powerful F-5 tornado touches down and juggernauts its way across the landscape, claiming lives, demolishing everything in its past, and even killing some of the researchers who flock to track and study it. But now, after the redesignated EF-5 that just accomplished all that in real life, this movie seems a little less like escapist fiction. Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
 
 
The NBA postseason contest moves to ABC for the finals, beginning with tonight’s Game 1. It’s a team game, but most eyes will be on two dominant players: LeBron James for the Miami Heat and Tim Duncan for the San Antonio Spurs. One of them will be strengthening his legacy; the other will not.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This entertaining, durable USA series returns for its seventh and final season, picking up nine months after last season’s cliffhanger left off. Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) went deep undercover to save his friends – but now, as he emerges after a long undercover mission on foreign soil, his relationship with them doesn’t exactly pick up without losing a beat.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: Give credit to this three-part British miniseries, for finding a new way into the zombie craze. Its angle is to focus on a young man named Kieren (Luke Newberry), a zombie who, like many others in this fantasy drama, has benefited from medical research that provides an apparent cure, and return to living, breathing normalcy. The former zombies are given a medical syndrome term – Partially Deceased Syndrome Sufferer, or PDSS – and returned to society to be assimil
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
 
 
Give this series credit, at least, for landing some impressively unusual guest stars. Hannibal already has featured Gillian Anderson as a therapist, and tonight it features guest star Eddie Izzard, returning for his second appearance as another doctor – twisted killer Dr. Gideon.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
6
 
 
PBS Digital Studios has released yet another Mr. Rogers mashterpiece, "Sing Together"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
5
 
 
Tonight’s competition takes place at an elementary school, where Gordon Ramsay oversees the contestants going through their paces in the school cafeteria kitchen, trying to come up with healthy meals for hundreds of vegetable-averse children. It may be worth watching just to see how Ramsay adjusts his usually rough-edged barrage of insults, given the environment. Instead of calling someone a “bloody cow,” will he shift to the more acceptable “silly wabbit?”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
5
 
 
Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol star in this intensely acted and filmed 1982 version of the William Styron novel, adapted for the screen and directed by the wonderful Alan J. Pakula. When it comes to the moment of revealing, and acting out, the meaning of the title, actress and director come together in a way that makes it impossible to imagine a more emotional, more powerful alternative.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jun
5
 
 
In this 1955 Western set in the last half of the 1890s, James Stewart plays a cowboy who tries to take advantage of the sudden Gold Rush by herding cattle from Wyoming to the rugged north. As you watch this Anthony Mann-directed movie, remind yourself that not one head of cattle was generated by a computer – then play a version of supporting-actor “Where’s Waldo?” by looking for all the familiar faces. Walter Brennan is a co-star here, so he’s a gimme – but wa