SATURDAY
JUNE 16
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

NBC, 4:00 p.m. ET

Every major golf tournament for years now, both fans and detractors of Tiger Woods have kept an eye on early-round play with an eye on one question: Is this the year, and the major, for Woods to go all the way again? After Thursday’s second-place finish, he seemed well poised to make a run – but this is Saturday, the day when, for professional golfers, dreams and reality have a way of colliding, usually around the back nine.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

One of the classic movies of its time, this 1994 drama, based on a Stephen King story, stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in roles that will rank among their best no matter what else they achieve. What performances. What images. And, oh, what music!

 
  
 
 

FX, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2009 movie by J.J. Abrams successfully rebooted the Star Trek franchise for yet another generation. Chris Pine plays a young James T. Kirk, Zachary Quinto plays young Spock, and this prequel shows us not only how those two met, but how the Enterprise came under Kirk’s command. Briskly paced, imaginatively written – and, to its credit, faced with humor throughout, though nothing campy or self-mocking.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

When I was a young teen, I fantasized about changing my name legally to “Anonymous,” just so I could claim unpaid royalties from various poetry collections. Yep. That was one of my early get-rich schemes, which explains why I’m still poor. But that idea was no more preposterous than the plot of this 2011 movie, which ascribes the works of William Shakespeare to a different scribe altogether. Rhys Ifans stars. Watch for entertainment value, but, prithee, don’t take it seriously.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

From 1979, this finely detailed character study stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep as a couple on the verge of divorce. She leaves him and their young son, then resurfaces with a quest to get legal custody. In between, the movie is mostly about Hoffman’s single dad becoming a responsible, attentive father – and dealing with his son even when the boy is testing limits, as he does, memorably, with a small tub of ice cream. Justin Henry plays young Billy.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.