Tonight is installment seven of Women Make Film, and it’s a sizzling entry: the chapters and topics are “Bodies” and “Sex.” Hard to have one without the other, for the most part, but the movies shown tonight as part of this months-long celebration of cinema made by women feature plenty of both – bodies and sex, that is. Of the movies I’ve seen in this international sampler, the most riveting, and disturbing, is 1974’s The Night Porte

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NEXT By David Bianculli

The plot and scriptwriting for this new Fox sci-fi series hasn’t grabbed me yet – but John Slattery has. As the artificial intelligence expert who has come to fear, and know, that a computerized entity has decided to turn on its creators, he’s dynamic, and as entertaining as always. The rest of neXt, so far, though, doesn’t match his performance. Put it this way: Up to this point, the A.I. at the core of this Fox series has nothing on HAL 2000 from 2001: A

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DRIVING WHILE BLACK By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: This new two-hour documentary is based on the book and reporting by Gretchen Soren, and is brought to PBS in collaboration with acclaimed nonfiction filmmaker Ric Burns. Whenever a Burns is involved, whether Ric or his brother Ken, any chosen subject will be fully and fascinatingly grounded in history – and Driving While Black is no exception. Rather than focus exclusively on modern examples and abuses, this film also traces the development of new travel opt

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JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SUPREME COURT NOMINATION HEARINGS By David Bianculli

And you thought the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh were contentious. (And you were right.) Now come the confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s chosen potential Supreme Court successor to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Among the subtexts this time, and this is by no means an exhaustive list: 1) The Republicans are holding these hearings less than a month before the 2020 presidential election, even though they blocked any con

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2020 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

It’s a weird season, and postseason, for baseball this year – but what isn’t weird about 2020? These pandemic playoffs have already begun. Last night, in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Houston Astros, 2-1, before much less than a capacity crowd (pictured). The two teams play Game 2 today at 4 p.m. ET, televised by TBS. Then at 8 p.m. ET on Fox, Game 1 of the National League Championship Series takes place, with the Los A

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DOCTOR WHO DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

The British TV series Doctor Who has been around so long, its scheduled premiere episode famously fell on the same day as the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy: Nov. 22, 1963. Yet two years into its TV run in England, Doctor Who was popular enough that a movie franchise was launched, starring a different and more recognizable genre actor in the title role for the big screen. For the first entry, 1965’s Dr. Who and the Daleks, the Doctor was playe

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NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY 'THE SOCIAL DILEMMA' A ROUGH RIDE AT TIMES, BUT A RIDE WORTH TAKING By Alex Strachan

Who's watching you? Are you sure the decisions you make aren't being manipulated — without you realizing it — by what you see on social media?...

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1950: BURNS AND ALLEN MAKE THEIR TV DEBUT By TV WW

On this day in 1950, husband-and-wife radio stars George Burns and Gracie Allen made their television series debut with The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show...

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1962: 'MCHALE'S NAVY' LAUNCHES ON ABC By TV WW

On this day in 1962, ABC introduced the sitcom McHale's Navy, which starred Ernest Borgnine as the commanding officer of a WWII Navy PT boat...

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2020 NBA FINALS By David Bianculli

What a series this is turning out to be. LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers took the first two games of this year’s NBA Finals easily, winning the first game by nearly 20 points and the second game by a margin of 10. But then, in Game 3, the Miami Heat rebounded with a double-digit win of its own – and the teams traded wins in Games 4 and 5. James played spectacularly in Game 5, yet wasn’t quite enough to match the play of the Heat – specifically, Jimmy Butler, whose

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