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BEST BETS FOR JANUARY 1, 2008
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SCI FI, continues until 10 p.m. ET You're continuing to travel through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of.... satellite and cable. Whether it's Anne Francis as a mannequin or two, or Burgess Meredith as an unlucky bookworm, you'll find terrific storytelling here in this two-day marathon of shows from Rod Serling's groundbreaking, still-iconic 1959-65 TV anthology series. |
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ABC, NBC, HGTV & Travel, 11 a.m. ET This is the Pasadena parade in which, while no one drives too quicky, everyone is guilty of putting the petal to the metal. Color television was made for stuff such as this - and remember, it's one TV show that works beautifully as visual wallpaper, with the sound off. |
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TCM, 12:30 pm. ET Whether or not the kids are around and housebound on this first day of 2008, here's a triple feature that is guaranteed to both entertain and educate. The younger you are, the more unfamiliar - and jaw-dropping - some of these film excerpts are bound to be. This is a compilation of some of the best moments from MGM's best musicals, which means it doesn't get much better than this. But the hits just keep on coming, in two compilation sequels: That's Entertainment! II (at 3 p.m. ET) and That's Entertainment! III (at 5:30 p.m.). |
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Spike, 6:30 p.m. ET This double feature presents both halves of Quentin Tarantino's 2003-04 Kill Bill mega-movie (Kill Bill: Vol. 2 follows at 9 p.m. ET) - and the chance to see Uma Thurman, as the persistent heroine, travel through a veritable Odyssey of deadly encounters, most of which are depicted in different film styles. |
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Fox Movie Channel, 8 p.m. ET I absolutely adore this 1979 movie, which is about high-school friends who come of age against the backdrop of bicycle races, small-town rock quarries and pampered collegians. Dennis Christopher stars as the intense young man with a fixation on all things Italian. His buddies are played by Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern and Jackie Earle Haley, who just made a remarkable cinematic comeback playing the former child molester in Little Children. They're all amazingly believable here as actual teens - and as parents, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley are especially charming. "Them's my French fries!" A great, charming little film, written by Steve Tesich and directed by Peter Yates. |
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TCM, 8 p.m. ET This movie, based on the H.G. Wells novel, was made in 1936, and was an exercise in forward thinking. This William Cameron Menzies film depicts a postwar collapse of society, and its re-emergence over the next century, That takes it to the year 2036 - which, at this point, remains 28 years in our future. What did they think, 70-some years ago, our world would look like today? Stay tuned... and marvel. |
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