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2019
Aug
12
 
 
One horror turns to another on the second season of The Terror, AMC’s anthology series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
TCM has so many Humphrey Bogart movies on tap that it has no problem filling the day, as well as the night, with his films. So at 8 p.m. ET, to launch prime time, the network has a brilliant double feature. It’s a pairing of two movies featuring two very different boats, and two extremely different characters, both played by Bogart: the weathered, rumpled boatman of 1951’s The African Queen (pictured, with Katharine Hepburn), and the stiff, paranoid officer of 1954’s&
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
Last week’s scheduled episode of The Movies, devoted to The Sixties, was pre-empted, and for a horrible reason: CNN’s breaking news coverage of last weekend’s tragic mass shootings. (It’s the shootings that were horrible, not the network’s coverage or programming decisions). CNN has rescheduled The Sixties for tonight, and I’ll be very relieved if we get to see it. Movies that ought to be covered in this installment include 2
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s interesting, and maybe even a little scary, that two of premium cable’s drama series tonight are built, tangentially or overtly, around the media and political reach and muscle of Rupert Murdoch. The Loudest Voice, on Showtime, features Murdoch as a recurring character in its story of Fox News and Roger Ailes – and tonight’s Season 2 premiere of Succession, on HBO, continues its story of a Murdoch-like tycoon patriarch.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
Last week’s episode ended with Jackie (Kevin Bacon) seeking revenge for his daughter’s sexual assault – and accomplishing it, in a sudden and brutal fashion that should shift the tone of the rest of the series. What a moment. What a climax. And tonight, in this season’s penultimate installment, what happens now?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: Tonight’s episode, the miniseries’ final installment, takes us, and Fox News and Roger Ailes, to 2018, and to the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. Russia, are you watching?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
Last week, with almost no time to prep, John Oliver hosted a powerful show suggesting a link between political rhetoric and last weekend’s mass shootings. After a week of reactions to those deaths, and a day of reaction to the apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, how will John Oliver structure and focus this week’s show? I have no clue. But I’ll be watching…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
11
 
 
Even those of us who have been going into supermarkets for years would probably assume, if we thought about it, that food distribution has always been pretty much the way it is today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
10
 
 
In HBO’s Entourage, one of the running gags of that movie came when the show’s hot young movie star was cast as the lead in a superhero action film – but it was Aquaman. Cut to years later, and Hollywood actually got around to making an actual movie based on that waterlogged DC Comics character. And this is it: Made in 2018, it stars Jason Momoa from Game of Thrones – another HBO series, by the way – as the title character. Amber Heard
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
10
 
 
This Mike Judge comedy is 20 years old now. Seems almost impossible, but it is – and this live-action office comedy, from the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head, has become a touchstone for the current generation. Ron Livingston, Stephen Root, Jennifer Aniston and John C. McGinley star in this mutinous tale of life within the cubicle world – and Gary Cole, formerly known as a serious dramatic actor, carved out a whole new career by playing the boss, Bill Lumbergh (pictured).