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2019
Jul
19
 
 
The best movies of 1939 continue to be collected and shown on Fridays this month by TCM – but let’s focus on this particular one, which should be seen tonight by everyone, regardless of political leanings. When I show this film, starring James Stewart and an equally fabulous Jean Arthur, to my Rowan University film students, they’re astounded by so much in this now 80-year-old movie: the cynicism of the media, the corruption of politicians, and both the liberated and disapprovi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
Moon TV specials are everywhere this week, but here’s one that takes moon travel literally. It’s about how and why the moon travels in its orbit, and how that affects things here on Earth. If you’re looking for pure escapism tonight, look elsewhere – because if there’s one thing this new special is loaded with, it’s gravity.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
Things get worse for Carla Gugino’s Jett tonight. But hey – I could have written that every week so far…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
18
 
 
From 1:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, The Golf Channel provides live Day 1 coverage of the 2019 British Open, which takes place at the Royal Portrush course in Northern Ireland.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
18
 
 
Tonight’s episode is called “Killer Queen,” and has Liv (Rose McIver) absorbing the brains and personality of a murdered drag queen. Makeup and wardrobe are appropriately fabulous.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
 
 
Great Odin's raven! This past weekend, mere days after Game of Thrones was shut out of this year's Television Critics Association nominations, a prominent UK reviewer made a comment regarding another long-running sword 'n' sandals TV fantasy. Vikings, he said, had succumbed to "season-seven Game of Thrones" syndrome...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
 
 
John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel about a family hit hard by the Dust Bowl and the Depression had been published only one year when director John Ford turned it into this classic film version, starring Henry Fonda as beleaguered everyman Tom Joad. Jane Darwell, as Ma Joad, will get you, even more than Fonda, which is saying a lot.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
 
 
DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL: Yet another Apollo 11 special arriving as the moon mission hits its golden anniversary – and this one, for PBS, may be golden indeed, for interspersing conversations among the three astronauts with vintage footage of the flight, landing and return, some of it unseen until now. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
17
 
 
When USA decided to spin the Jessica Pearson character from Suits off into her own series, they didn’t just send her next door. They sent her to another galaxy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
16
 
 
Okay, let’s get this out of the way right up front. The CW’s new summer series Pandora is filmed in Bulgaria and features spacecraft that look like those old 1950s props where you could almost see the wires...