SATURDAY
AUGUST 24
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET

In 1990, Kevin Costner was enjoying an especially strong time in his career – reaping both acclaim and awards as both actor and director, and using his Hollywood clout to present a Western that was epic in both length and structure. It’s especially noteworthy, then and now, for being a Western in which sympathies were placed pointedly on the side of the native Americans. Watch for Mary McDonnell, who later played the female president on Battlestar Galactica, as Stands With a Fist. (If I had an Indian name, I suspect it would be Sits with a Remote.)
 
  
 
 

Fox Movie Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET

It’s been 10 years now since Mark Zuckerberg sat down in his Harvard dorm room and concocted what evolved into what we all now know as Facebook. (What a difference a decade makes.) Aaron Sorkin wrote this super-smart, whip-speed account of the development of social media’s most pervasive player, and his 2010 movie is loaded with stars who burned more brightly almost immediately: Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin, Rooney Mara as Erica Albright, and Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Preston Sturges gets a lot of the credit for the crackling wit in this 1941 comedy. Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, as a sexy con woman and one of her flustered marks, get the rest. What a breezy, enjoyable little film.

 
  
 
 

Starz!, 9:00 p.m. ET

Elizabeth (Rebecca Ferguson) hasn’t been in power for long, but she’s already learned how to wield it – in ways that affect not only people far from her kingdom, but even those closely within her royal court.

 
  
 
 

Sundance, 10:00 p.m. ET

Paul Schrader wrote and directed this 1980 movie, gaining additional notoriety not only for himself, but for his crucially charismatic star, Richard Gere, who plays a male prostitute. Lauren Hutton co-stars.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.