MIDSEASON PREMIERE: This newest incarnation of the Star Trek franchise resumes tonight on CBS Access – the network’s subscription streaming site, and for now still the only way to see these episodes. After a lengthy hiatus, Star Trek: Discovery returns, on a weekly basis, with tonight’s new episode directed by Jonathan Frakes, one of the stars of a previous series in the TV canon, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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THE GOONIES By David Bianculli

Stranger Things and its Season 2 sequel, Stranger Things 2, were and are major hits on Netflix, especially with the younger generation. That’s because, in part, that younger generation grew up entertained by 1985’s The Goonies, a movie that served as an obvious inspiration for the misfit Stranger Things kids and their adventures. To compare and contrast, watch Syfy’s showing tonight, and check out young Sean Astin, James Brolin, Corey Feldman and buddies as they search for, rea

2018

Jan

THE CHI By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Lena Waithe, who co-wrote the Emmy-winning “Thanksgiving” episode of Master of None with Aziz Ansari, created this new Showtime series, which looks at modern-day South Side Chicago through the eyes of a handful of its everyday citizens – children, teens and adults. The opening hour starts with a bike ride through the neighborhood, and by the end of the hour, you’ll have a hard time forgetting the biker. And other characters make their marks, too, just str

2018

Jan

THE HEARTACHE AND HOPE OF THE CITY IN 'THE CHI' By David Hinckley

Showtime’s hard-edged new drama The Chi achieves its clear goal of defying easy categorization...

2018

Jan

GREATNESS IS IN THE CARDS FOR SHOWTIME'S 'THE CHI' By Ed Bark

That didn't take long. The first potentially great new TV series of 2018 is already upon us...

2018

Jan

TCA'S WINTER PRESS TOUR – DAY 2: FX NETWORK By Roger Catlin

PASADENA, Calif. — Amid the hype and hubbub of the TV Critics Association winter press tour, there is one reliable moment of hushed reflection — during the anticipated biannual address of FX CEO John Landgraf...

2018

Jan

BREAKING BAD MARATHON By David Bianculli

Breaking Bad turns 10 years old this month, and AMC is noting the occasion by replaying the entire series, in sequence, doling out episodes sparingly but lovingly on weekends all this month. The celebration started last year – technically, last weekend, and already has presented the show’s first two seasons – including the stellar Season 2 which began with images of a pink stuffed animal floating in a pool, and ended up with a pair of tragedies, including the final, memor

2018

Jan

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY By David Bianculli

Now that we’ve turned the calendar to 2018, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi masterpiece, adapted from a work by collaborator Arthur C. Clarke, is now 50 years old. To me, that’s amazing. And another thing that’s amazing is how the special effects, and the deeply mysterious story, continue to hold up, enchant, and amaze. Great movie. And tonight, on TCM, it’s presented beautifully, without interruption – except for the movie’s original music-filled intermis

2018

Jan

HIDDEN FIGURES By David Bianculli

This 2016 movie is about the early years of the space race, when scientists were still figuring things out – and so were mathematicians, some of whom get special attention in this inspirational character study. What makes them so special? For one thing, they’re women. For another, they’re African-American. In the period in which this movie is set, both of those factors are significant, and unusual. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae star.

2018

Jan

'THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD' IS A DIFFERENT SORT OF TEEN DRAMEDY By David Hinckley

James and Alyssa, the main characters of the new Netflix dramedy The End of the F***ing World, are a Bob Dylan kind of couple...

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