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2019
Jul
24
 
 
So this is it: After months of speculation and anticipation and negotiation, a one-week delay and some last-minute adjustments, two congressional committees – the first before the House Judiciary Committee, the second, after lunch, before the House Intelligence Committee. Mueller has said, on the record, he doesn’t plan to testify much beyond the content of his famous report – but subsequent summations of that same report by the attorney general makes his rectitude a question m
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
We’re getting to the end of Jane the Virgin – the final two episodes of the series are presented next Wednesday, as a finale double-header. Today, the dizzy plots that have been spinning wildly this final season, including a sudden fear that her own once-kidnapped, safely returned child is not her own, come closer and closer to a conclusion. All with the sly telenovela narration…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
The science fiction universe has been bombarded lately with news, and that includes some for Trekkies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
23
 
 
Tonight’s “Out of This World” film voyage on TCM begins with two incomparably influential sci-fi dramas. First is this 1960 classic, adapting the H.G. Wells novel into a marvel of day-glo, futuristic fantasy. Rod Taylor stars as H. George Wells (yes, you read that right), and the most memorable alien he encounters in this galactic class-warfare story is Weena, played by Yvette Mimieux.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
23
 
 
Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film is a movie masterpiece of the first order. Conceptually, it’s one of the best movies ever made – and the fact that we can watch it more than 50 years later and still marvel at it, and accept its imagined future, is as remarkable as anything it shows on screen. Remember, this was all done before CGI. “Open the pod bay doors, HAL…”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
22
 
 
In a description of an earlier episode of this fascinating, frightening, futuristic miniseries by Russell T. Davies, I mistakenly wrote that loose-cannon British politician Viv (played so disturbingly well by Emma Thompson) was being elected Prime Minister. Well, I was wrong then, but I’m right now. That’s what happens in tonight’s episode – and for global stability, it’s not a welcome eventuality.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
22
 
 
Tonight’s episode has David toying with time, aggressively, to try to right what he sees are the wrongs he and others have committed, and to both alter and save the future. This happens so often in the Marvel universe – both The X-Men and The Avengers franchises already have used time travel to alter destiny – that why shouldn’t it happen in Legion? Except, on this show, the time stream, like the plot, is particularly difficult to follow. But
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
21
 
 
Irish player Shane Lowry has home-course advantage in this year’s British Open, as it emanates from a very tough course in Northern Ireland. And as I write this, Lowry also has the lead on the final day of play – but the conditions are treacherous, there are six holes to go, and his lead is only half that in terms of strokes. This is when deciding what to attempt, and what to avoid, can make the difference between a final-lap run and a loss of the claret jug. As I typed this, one pla
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
21
 
 
This entertaining and informative arts documentary series from CNN fills in the cinematic gaps glossed over in its long-running “Decades” series, which began with The Sixties. This movie-centric offshoot began a few decades later, with the 1980s. Now, after last week’s episode devoted to the 1990s, The Movies brings us up to speed, covering both the 2000s and the current decade. It’s the fantasy film era, with fantasies from Marvel and DC Comics and th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
21
 
 
SEASON FINALE: In this final episode of Season 2, the women who share their dark secret arrive in court – where secrets have a way of emerging. Nicole Kidman stars.