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2018
Apr
22
 
 
It’s not news on the level of rapper Kendrick Lamar, the surprising 2018 Pulitzer Prize recipient, but Jerry Saltz, New York art critic and former co-host of Bravo's Work of Art (2010-11) is also a 2018 winner...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
21
 
 
Caesar and the Colonel sounds like a TV buddy show from the Seventies – but it’s actually the conflicted pair at the heart of this latest entry, from 2017, in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series. Caesar is the now-grown ape who’s set on revenge for what the humans have done to him and the rest of monkeykind – and the Colonel is the military guy who’s familiar with being both for and against him. Woody Harrelson returns as the Colonel, and Andy Serkis, the motion-
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
21
 
 
Director Norman Jewison mounted this 1968 heist drama with style to spare, playing with the split-screen images, rapid editing and propulsive rock music so popular at that point in the Sixties. Steve McQueen, as a bank executive who plans a clever way to rob his own bank, is stylish, too, and is cool personified – but nothing in this film is as stylish as Faye Dunaway, playing the insurance investigator who’s called in after the robbery.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
21
 
 
Season 2 of HBO’s inventive, exciting version of Westworld begins tomorrow night. But tonight, even if you saw and remember every bit of Season 1 from 2016, you might want to take advantage of tonight’s rebroadcast of the Season 1 finale episode. Consider it a refresher course – and a reminder of not only who’s who on this series about artificial humans and their creators, but, even more important, who’s what…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
21
 
 
To the relatively short list of wordless television shows, add a lovely Nat Geo Wild special called Symphony for Our World...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
20
 
 
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: While the pace and approach of this new documentary is a bit leisurely, the subject certainly is worthy of interest. Remember the movie version of The Right Stuff, which told of the selection and training of the original Mercury 7 astronauts? Well, nowhere in that movie version of the Tom Wolfe book was it mentioned that at the same time those macho fighter pilots were being prepared for orbital missions, so were a number of veteran female pilots. Who were they? What was th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
20
 
 
In tonight’s new episode, called “All Roads Lead,” the S.H.I.E.L.D. team, still trying to escape from a time loop, remains committed to finding a way of stopping the Destroyer of Worlds from exploding Earth into fragments. And now, at least, they finally have identified said Destroyer not as one of their own, but as a dangerous young rebel named Ruby.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
20
 
 
Tonight’s guests include Dwayne Johnson and Roger Daltrey. If your reaction is “Who?,” you’re half right.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
20
 
 
Don’t tune in late for tonight’s show: The opening interview guest is Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
19
 
 
This weeks’ new episode of The Big Bang Theory features a special guest star portraying himself, something this sitcom does especially inventively from time to time (Stephen Hawking! Leonard Nimoy!). Tonight’s guest is author and graphic novelist (Stardust, The Sandman), who shows up at Stuart’s comic book store and gives it a very influential seal of approval. Scribes at Minnesota’s Star Tribune note that Gaiman, years ago, did the same thing to Minneapolis’ DreamH