THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET
This wonderful movie was released 25 years ago – and to honor its silver anniversary, my friend and fellow critic Mark Dawidziak has written a new companion book, The Shawshank Redemption: One Story Kept Hope Alive, that will be published Friday. (You can pre-order it on Amazon, and elsewhere.) The book is really good – and so, of course, is Frank Darabont’s movie, based on a story by Stephen King and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. See the movie. Then reads the book…