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2020
May
18
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This is not a recommendation. Tonight and tomorrow, The Voice presents its finale. But scaled down because of social distancing, and with virtually no live audience (or just a virtual one), how exciting can this year’s finale be? If you’re still involved enough to watch, you tell me…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
18
 
 
This 1963 Alfred Hitchcock movie is a classic, and he managed, without any CGI, to present many unforgettable images of birds congregating on phone wires and playground structures. Remember that a gathering of one particular type of blackbirds is referred to as “a murder of crows.” In The Birds, Hitch takes that literally…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
18
 
 
This 2001 French film stars Audrey Tautou as a young woman confined as a young child, experiencing very little social interaction or outdoor travel, who grows up to become a waitress in Paris, driven to bring joy into the lives of anyone she encounters. Amélie was a delightful, beautifully photographed fable already – but now, in these times, its buoyancy is even more inspirational, and even more welcome.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
18
 
 
Last week’s premiere of this new cooking series actually presented a few recipes I was happy to mark for future testing: Amy Schumer’s cocktail recipe for an old fashioned (she used to bartend in New York), and her husband Chris Fischer’s recipe for baked chicken wings, which combined a teriyaki marinade with a yogurt and herb wash. Seemingly, there’s no take two on this show, but that’s part of its casual, super informal energy. And the primary camera is handh
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
18
 
 
As possibly the most humorless man on television, Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley) has found the perfect job. He takes formal portraits of the dead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
 
 
As the music competitions end their seasons...some things are clear: Yes, both shows are flawed...But the music-from-home part has worked well...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
 
 

Jackie Quinones spends her evenings walking through the streets of Provincetown snorting cocaine, drinking whatever someone puts in front of her... During the daytime she works in law enforcement... 

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
 
 
The title character of the new TNT drama, Snowpiercer, is a train that has been circling the Earth for almost seven years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
 
 

When Elvis Presley died in 1977, the differences in news coverage were cavernous... By the time newscasts started, “there were six Enquirer reporters in the air for Memphis with $50,000 in cash"...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
 
 
When Orphan Black was still in production, and presented on BBC America, the cast occasionally would show up at fan conventions and do table reads, reciting their respective lines from scripts and having a good time. Now they’re doing a similar thing for charity, online and separated in their own homes, reading from two old scripts from Season 1. Tatiana Maslany, who just co-starred on Broadway opposite Bryan Cranston in Network, and her co-stars will reunite today at 3