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2017
Jun
16
 
 
This week’s scheduled guests include Eddie Izzard, a very smart comedian with a singularly global viewpoint. His take on this week’s events, and in particular on America’s political situation and gun-violence history, ought to be fascinating. Just not, necessarily, very funny.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
16
 
 
If it’s summer, it must be time for another Canadian police series to visit the U.S. – and sure enough, Hulu offers the nicely compact detective drama Cardinal beginning Friday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
15
 
 
For all the talk about summer blossoming into a fertile field for quality television, the truth is you have to hunt a little harder to find the good stuff once the days get longer and the nights get warmer. So here’s a place to look...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
15
 
 
SPECIAL: Here’s a last-minute addition to the C-SPAN schedule that’s bound to be an absolute, and absolutely welcome and much-needed, anomaly: a televised political event that is bound to leave viewers across the political spectrum equally moved, inspired and united. It’s a charity baseball game, pure and simple. Except that today, it’s even more pure because it is so simple. The Congressional Baseball Game for Charity has been played, in one way or another, for about a c
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
15
 
 
James Dean died less than a month before the release of this 1955 film, so most of the legends and iconic moments related to this coming-of-age drama have centered on him. And with good reason, because Dean, like Marlon Brando at about the same time, affected future actors as obviously and immediately as Frank Sinatra had influenced singers. But as coming-of-age stories go, look, also, at co-star Natalie Wood. She was a child star in Hollywood who pivoted to more mature roles with this prominent
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
15
 
 
Part 4. If Oliver Stone saved the best for last, regarding his interviews with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, tonight is the last. And if you’ve missed the earlier ones, Showtime presents them all tonight, beginning at 6 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
15
 
 
Diane Keaton is honored tonight by the AFI, in a salute that I hope includes her perfect cinematic moment singing in that nightclub in Annie Hall. And yes, the director and co-writer of that film, Woody Allen, makes a rare public appearance to salute Keaton. And he’s only one of many…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
15
 
 
Guest Contributor Nic Dobija-Nootens finds Season 5 of House of Cards an oddly welcome alternative to the dizzying and seemingly unstoppable stream of news coming from the White House...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
14
 
 
One of the gems of current television, The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, wraps up its first season with an ending that’s appropriately menacing and yet reassuringly cryptic...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
14
 
 
SEASON FINALE: The season’s final episode of The Handmaid’s Tale is televised tonight, with Offred (Elisabeth Moss) reaching neither the end of her journey nor the end of her rope. But the way things are going, inside and outside her prison-type household, things are getting very tense. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All along the Watchtower.