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2019
Mar
9
 
 
Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and Isabella Sermon star in this 2018 film that’s the latest in the string of Jurassic Park movies. Pratt is charming yet goofy as a matinee idol – part Cary Grant, part Bill Murray – but Howard’s role, this time around (both she and Pratt are reprising earlier roles), is even more thankless. And Fallen Kingdom is even more derivative, intentionally echoing several set pieces from the original film.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
9
 
 
In this 2018 supernatural thriller, Helen Mirren plays an elderly heir to the Winchester fortune, a woman who suspects she’s being haunted by the spirits of people killed by the Winchester rifles assembled by her ancestors. And she’s not wrong.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
9
 
 
Tonight’s guest host on this new edition is Idris Elba. Musical guest: Khalid.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Ricky Gervais stars in this new Netflix series, and also wrote and directed it. He plays a recent widower living a morose and solitary life (except for his dog), going through the paces of visiting his ailing father (who has dementia) and working at a tiny local “free” newspaper (where he’s assigned pitifully dull feature stories). Co-stars include the endearing Ashley Jensen, from Ugly Betty and Gervais’ own Extras – and, as always, there’s a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: Alfre Woodard stars in the title role of this new Netflix movie, playing a woman who tires of her life as a taken-for-granted one-woman support system for her three grown children, her grandchildren and others. So this “giving tree” rips up her roots and heads impulsively to Montana, where she meets new people, gets a new job, and has intermittent fantasy conversations with her dream man, Blair Underwood. The part of Blair Underwood is played by Blair Underwood. And A
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
Jesse Pearson, who plays the Elvis-like rock star in this 1963 movie musical, didn’t get much traction out of this film, but others did. Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh already were stars, thanks to TV’s The Dick Van Dyke Show and the movie Psycho respectively, and Ed Sullivan, playing himself, had been a TV mainstay since 1948. But Ann-Margret, who played a Birdie-brained teen and danced with wild enthusiasm in the opening credits, stole the movie before it even got started. Bye Bye B
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
Tonight’s guests, after a week of anti-Semitism charges in Congress and presidential debate charges against Fox News, include author Noah Rothman and political commentator Michael Steele.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
For some odd reason, Amazon Prime’s new drama Made In Heaven kept reminding me of the USA series Suits. Except that Made In Heaven, which becomes available Friday, revolves around wedding planners instead of lawyers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
Ricky Gervais has had a remarkably consistent modus operandi throughout his successful comedic career...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Mar
8
 
 
In just the first episode of Season 2 of Tin Star, Amazon Prime’s dark police drama, almost all the major characters at some point look like goners...