No one is suggesting the world will end, of course, though the late, great Isaac Asimov and fellow science-fiction writer Robert Silverberg foretold exactly that in their classic 1941 novella Nightfall...

2017

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PLANET EARTH II By David Bianculli

This spectacular nature series gets an encore telecast today, in what it calls an “enhanced” version. That usually means a few extra facts super-imposed or added as interstitial informational spots – but no matter what is or isn’t added, the program itself is unbeatable. The action begins at 1 p.m. ET, with installments repeated all afternoon.

2017

Aug

EPISODES MARATHON By David Bianculli

Season 5 of this underrated Showtime comedy series begins tomorrow – and to set the table, Showtime tonight presents an “Episodes eve” marathon showing of Season 4. Matt LeBlanc stars as an exaggerated version of himself, taking paychecks to star in one bad TV series after another – just as, in his post-Friends career, in real life. He’s excellent and very funny here, though – as are his co-stars, Tamsin Greig (pictured here with LeBlanc) and Stephen Mangan, a

2017

Aug

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS By David Bianculli

Fashion designer, and movie writer-director Tom Ford, has made only two films to date, but they’ve both been visually arresting, and nominated for Oscars. His first was 2009’s A Single Man, and his follow-up, shown tonight on HBO, was last year’s Nocturnal Animals, a moody and mysterious piece starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.

2017

Aug

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE By David Bianculli

This 1962 psychological thriller, directed by John Frankenheimer, is one of the best political dramas of the decade – and somewhat ahead of its time, since it feels like one of those great Seventies conspiracy films. Especially like The Parallax View. Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury star. Leigh sandwiched this movie in between filming 1960’s Psycho and 1963’s Bye Bye Birdie. Talk about range… and as movies go, talk about The Essentials, w

2017

Aug

HALT AND CATCH FIRE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: AMC’s tale of the early Internet – a sort of more serious prequel to HBO’s Silicon Valley – begins its fourth and final season tonight. If the series ever returns, it’ll be as a 2.0 reboot. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2017

Aug

WILD WEST By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: This three-part series, from some of the makers of Planet Earth II, looks squarely and exclusively at America – that part also known as John Ford country, and the wide open lands – and, yes, the wild west. Part 1 is shown tonight, beginning at 9 p.m. ET with a special look at the impact of the Acme company on the hunting habits of Wile E. Coyote in his unending quest to catch the Road Runner. (Okay, I was kidding about that last bit. Meep meep!)

2017

Aug

THE FINAL YEAR OF ‘HALT AND CATCH FIRE’ AND THE BIRTH OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB By David Hinckley

The fourth and final season of AMC’s dawn-of-the-Internet tale Halt and Catch Fire starts with a solid interface between personal and high-tech drama...

2017

Aug

MARVEL'S THE DEFENDERS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is the fifth in Netflix’s ambitious series of superhero stories built around characters from the Marvel Comics universe. The series themselves have been uneven, with Charlie Cox in Daredevil and Krysten Ritter in Jessica Jones being impressive and engrossing additions to the genre. Mike Colter in Luke Cage was a somewhat distant third, as these Marvel/Netflix series go, and Finn Jones as Iron Fist was such a sad also-ran, so poorly written and acted, it should have be

2017

Aug

WHAT HAPPENED TO MONDAY? By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This Netflix sci-fi movie imagines a future society with a strict one-child policy (okay, that sounds like a fairly recent one-child policy from one particular Far East country, but go with it). That’s a plot device to explain why the septuplets of What Happened to Monday?, each known by a different day of the week, are in constant hiding, with only one showing her face at a time. And all the faces look like, and are played by, Noomi Rapace, in what sounds like an almost in

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